Observation Summary

OBSID:1342262527
Instrument:PACS
AOR label:Calibration_RPSpecFlux_1-RPSpecFlux_433B_StdRange_UnchopFluxB2A_AlpBooOff_05
Proposal:Calibration_rppacs_176
Target:alpha Boo Off
Actual RA:14h 15m 38.57s
Actual Dec.:19° 13' 30.65''
Purpose:offSelector
Concat.:---
OD:1356
Start:2013-01-29T07:12:04.000000 TAI (1738134724000000)
Duration:155.0 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:High (default spectral mapping)
Nod cycles:1

Observation block summary

Name(*)CameraIDBand(*)ReqWaveMin(*)ReqWaveMax(*)WaveMinWaveMaxRepetitions(*)ActualRepCapacitanceOutOfBandChannel
micrometermicrometermicrometermicrometerpF
Key B2A - R1red102R1119.500120.500119.057121.165240.14Noprime
-blue2B2A--59.54460.588240.14Noparallel
(*) = requested in HSPOT

System configuration summary

SPG pipeline version:SPG v14.2.0
SPG pipeline products creation date:2016-07-28T12:01:28.699000 TAI (1848398488699000)
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 1342262526
The offset between the central spaxel and the requested sky coordinates is  2.06" 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.