Observation Summary

OBSID:1342250912
Instrument:PACS
AOR label:NGC_2022_B2A_off2
Proposal:OT1_rrubin_1
Target:NGC 2022 Off
Actual RA:5h 42m 6.09s
Actual Dec.:9° 7' 10.79''
Purpose:offSelector
Concat.:1342250911,1342250912
OD:1217
Start:2012-09-12T03:28:09.000000 TAI (1726111689000000)
Duration:1001.0 seconds (incl. spacecraft on-target slew time)

AOT and instrument configuration:

AOT:PacsRangeSpec
Mode:Pointed, unchopped grating scan
Bands:B2A R1 (prime diffraction orders selected)
Sampling:Nyquist (with spectral dithering if range repetition > 1)
Nod cycles:3


System configuration summary

SPG pipeline version:SPG v14.2.0
SPG pipeline products creation date:2016-07-27T21:35:33.481000 TAI (1848346533481000)
Mission configuration:MC_H102ASTR_P70ASTR_S66ASTR_RP
Processed to level:RED: 2.0 BLUE: 2.0
Quality Control:PASSED
Action:NONE

Quality comments

Off source observation in an unchopped range-scan pair; matched with the on-source observation 1342250911
The offset between the central spaxel and the requested sky coordinates is  1.62" in the dispersion direction.
If the target is point-like and is offset from the centre of a spaxel in the dispersion direction, the spectral line 
profiles will develop a skew. This skewed Gaussian profile becomes more extreme as the offset increases. 
Be aware that this can be confused with real velocity structure.
This will affect spectra from a single spaxel of a rebinned cube (products with filenames "..hps3dr[r|b].."), 
and combined spaxel-spectra, i.e. added rebinned cube spaxels, or single spaxels from an interpolated or projected cube
(products with filenames "..hps3di[r|b].." or "..hps3dp[r|b].."). See the "PACS Handbook" for more information.