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Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
1. Introduction
1.1 Overview of the Observatory
1.1.1 The Site and Telescope
1.1.2 The Receivers
1.1.3 Backend Signal Processors
1.2 Observing Capabilities
1.2.1 Spectroscopy
1.2.2 Continuum
1.3 Computer Systems
1.3.1 VAXs and X-terminals at the SMTO
1.3.2 Unix machines
1.3.3 The SMTOBS account on jever/hannen
1.3.4 Class on Jever and Hannen
1.3.5 Tucson Computer Facilities
1.4 Proposal Preparation and Submission
1.4.1 Proposal Refereeing
1.4.2 Proposal Preparation
1.4.3 Proposal and Observing Propriety
1.5 Traveling to the Telescope
1.5.1 Logistics before Arriving
1.5.2 Driving from Base Camp
1.5.3 At the site
1.6 Observatory Policies
1.6.1 Safety is Our First Priority!
1.6.2 Staff Responsibilities
1.6.3 Observer's Responsibilities (HEY YOU!)
1.6.4 Maintenance and Repairs
1.6.5 Sharing Telescope Facilities with Other Observing Teams
1.6.6 Observations Under Poor Weather Conditions
1.6.7 When to Close
1.7 Checklist Before Your SMTO Observing Run
2. Observing: A Pocket Cookbook
2.1 What to Bring to the Telescope
2.2 An Overview of Where Things Are
2.2.1 The Control Room
2.3 An Overview of the Commands
2.3.1 Setup
2.3.2 Pointing
2.3.3 Calibration Of Data
2.3.4 Continuum Observations
2.3.5 Spectral Line Observations
2.3.6 Other Useful Commands
2.4 Starting Up
2.4.1 Telescope/Building Drive Start Up
2.5 Continuum Observations
2.5.1 Setting the Source: SOURCE
2.5.2 Setting the Receiver (4 Color Bolometer): RX
2.5.3 Setting the Receiver (SIS/HEBOL): RX
2.5.4 Setup
2.5.5 Pointing: POINT
2.5.6 Focus: ZFOCUS,XFOCUS
2.5.7 Taking Beam-Switched Data: CONOFF
2.5.8 Taking Stare Data: CTRACK
2.5.9 Taking Mapping Data: CMAP
2.5.10 Related Commands: SKYDIP
2.5.11 Quick Data Reduction
2.6 Spectral Line Observations
2.6.1 Setting the Source
2.6.2 Setting the Receiver: RX
2.6.3 Setting the Line Frequency: LINE
2.6.4 Setting the Backends: BACKEND and BE_FE
2.6.5 Calibration: CAL, EFF
2.6.6 Pointing: POINT, LPOINT, LWPOINT
2.6.7 Position Switching: PSWITCH
2.6.8 Beam Switching: WSWITCH
2.6.9 Raster Maps Using position switching: PRASTER
2.6.10 Beam Switching Maps: WRASTER
2.6.11 On-the-Fly Mapping: PMAP
2.7 Shutdown
2.8 Tidbits of Information
3. Receivers
3.1 The Receiver Cabins
3.1.1 Changing the Tertiary Mirror
3.1.2 Feed and Caring of the Receivers
3.2 Bolometer Systems
3.2.1 4-color Bolometer - Facility Instrument
3.3 Spectrometer Systems
3.4 Optics
3.5 What is important in tuning a SIS receiver?
3.6 Line Injector: Checking the Tuning for the Facility Receivers
3.7 HHT 215-275 GHz SIS Receiver
3.7.1 Overview
3.7.2 The Physical Layout of the SIS230 Receiver
3.7.3 Physical Layout of the Racks - SIS230
3.7.4 Setting the Frequency - Computer Commands:
3.7.5 Setting up the Receiver:
3.7.6 Powering Up the Receiver
3.7.7 Initial Tuning
3.7.8 Final Tuning
3.7.9 230 GHz Receiver Shutdown Procedure
3.8 HHT 345 GHz Dual-channel SIS
3.8.1 Overview
3.8.2 Physical Layout of the SIS345
3.8.3 Physical Layout of the Racks - SIS345
3.8.4 Setting the Frequency - Computer Commands
3.8.5 Setting Up the Receiver:
3.8.6 Initial Tuning
3.8.7 Final Tuning
3.8.8 345 GHz Receiver Shutdown Procedure
3.9 HHT 425-500 GHz SIS
3.9.1 Overview
3.9.2 The Physical Layout of the SIS490 Receiver
3.9.3 Physical Layout of the Racks - SIS490
3.9.4 Setting the Frequency - Computer Commands:
3.9.5 Checking the Receiver Status
3.9.6 Powering Up the Receiver
3.9.7 Tuning Setup
3.9.8 Initial Tuning:
3.9.9 Final Tuning:
3.9.10 425-500 GHz Receiver Shutdown Procedure
4. Bolometer observations at the SMTO
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Preparation of bolometer observations
4.2.1 Basic rules
4.2.2 Preparing OTF observations using NIC
4.2.3 Preparing OTF observations using MOPSI
4.2.4 More sophisticated topics
4.3 Observing with the Bolometers
4.3.1 Calibration observations
4.3.2 On-Offs
4.3.3 On-The-Flys
4.3.4 Advanced mapping techniques
4.3.5 Secondary calibrators & pointing sources
4.4 Data Reduction with NIC
4.4.1 Before you start
4.4.2 Calibration scans
4.4.3 Reducing On-Offs
4.4.4 Reducing On-The-Flys. I. The Basics
4.4.5 Reducing On-The-Flys. II. Optimizing the data reduction
4.5 Data Reduction with MOPSI
4.5.1 Reading the raw data in MOPSI
4.5.2 Calibration scans
4.5.3 Reducing On-Offs
4.5.4 Reducing On-The-Flys
4.5.5 Some examples for command procedures
4.6 Miscellaneous
4.6.1 Calibration. I. Array Parameters
4.6.2 Calibration. II. Absolute intensity scale
4.6.3 Spectral response of the bolometers
4.6.4 Data organization
4.6.5 Conversion utilities for continuum data
4.6.6 Getting the Software
5. Backend Signal Processors
5.1 Continuum Backend: DRUMBEAT
5.2 AOS
5.2.1 Available AOSs
5.2.2 Getting the best results out of the AOSs
5.3 Filterbanks
5.3.1 Getting the best results out of the Filterbanks
5.4 CHIRP
5.5 Connecting the Backends to the Receivers
5.5.1 The Receiver/Spectrometer IF Interface
5.5.2 Computer Control of the Receiver/Backend Configuration
5.5.3 Making the Most of the Receivers
6. OBST: Telescope Control/Observing Program
6.1 Overview
6.2 Introduction
6.3 Entering and Exiting OBST
6.3.1 Starting OBST
6.3.2 Saving/Restoring Parameters and Symbols
6.3.3 Entering DCL Command Level/Entering
OBSINP
6.3.4 Exiting OBST
6.4 General Rules
6.4.1 OBST : The Command Line
6.4.2 OBST : Making an Observation
6.4.3 OBST : Setting up an Observation - The GO command
6.4.4 Cancelling an Observation
6.4.5 OBST : Parameters
6.4.6 OBST: Screen Layout
6.4.7 HELP and Error Recovery
6.5 Catalogs
6.5.1 The Source Catalog
6.5.2 The Line Catalog
6.5.3 List of Current Catalogs at the SMTO
6.5.4 Getting your catalog to the SMTO
6.5.5 Source positions for Solar System Objects
6.6 Set-Up VERBS
6.6.1 RX
6.6.2 LINE
6.6.3 BE_FE
6.6.4 BACKEND
6.6.5 AOS
6.6.6 DRUMBEAT
6.6.7 WOBBLE
6.6.8 C_MODE
6.6.9 L_MODE
6.6.10 FESET
6.7 Calibration VERBS
6.7.1 POINTING
6.7.2 LPOINT
6.7.3 LWPOINT
6.7.4 GPOINT
6.7.5 ZFOCUS
6.7.6 XFOCUS
6.7.7 CORRECTIONS
6.7.8 DARK
6.7.9 CALIBRATION
6.7.10 SKYDIP
6.8 Observational Procedures
6.8.1 SOURCE
6.8.2 SET_DEFAULT OFFSETS - defining the Field center
6.8.3 GO
6.8.4 CROSS
6.8.5 CONOFF
6.8.6 CTRACK
6.8.7 PSWITCH
6.8.8 WSWITCH
6.8.9 RASTERS and MAPS (General)
6.8.10 References (OFF)
6.8.11 START
6.8.12 CMAP
6.8.13 CRASTER
6.8.14 PRASTER
6.8.15 WRASTER
6.8.16 ST_ONLINE
6.9 List of all VERBS and associated ADVERBS
6.9.1 SET-UP VERBS
6.9.2 CALIBRATION PROCEDURES
6.9.3 OBSERVATION PROCEDURES
6.9.4 MAPPING: OFFSETS and START
6.9.5 AUXILIARY VERBS
6.10 List of SIC commands:
7. On-The-Fly
7.1 On-The-Fly Basics
7.2 Setting up OTF Observations
7.3 Data Reduction
7.3.1 Online Display
7.3.2 Making Maps
7.3.3 CLASS OTF Data Gridding
7.3.4 MOPSI OTF Data Gridding
7.4 PMAP OBST Help
8. Data Reduction with Class
8.1 Where to do the data reduction
8.1.1 How to access your data under Unix
8.2 Quick Data Reduction
8.2.1 Summing data on a single position
8.2.2 Making a Quick Map
9. Data Reduction with MOPSI
10. Data Reduction with CHEF/TOOLBOX
10.1 CHEF
10.1.1 Introduction
10.1.2 Cookbook
10.1.3 Spectral Line Data
10.1.4 Standard Procedures
10.1.5 Continuum Procedures
10.1.6 CHEF Internal Help
10.2 TOOLBOX
11. Calibration
11.1 Efficiency Measurements
11.1.1 Calculate the Flux of a Planet
11.1.2 Measure the Atmospheric Opacity
11.1.3 Measure the Antenna Temperature of a Planet
11.1.4 Calculating Jy/K
11.1.5 Calculating
11.1.6 Calculating
and
11.2 Useful Background Papers
11.2.1 Papers on site at the HHT
11.2.2 Related Papers which may be of interest
12. Sensitivity Measurements
12.1 Continuum
12.1.1 Calculating S
0
12.2 Spectral Line
13. Pointing
13.1 Taking Pointing Data For Fun and Profit
13.1.1 XEPHEM
13.1.2 OBST commands: POINT, GPOINT, CORR
13.1.3 When to Adjust BOLOGAIN
13.1.4 OBST Focus Commands: ZFOCUS, XFOCUS
13.2 Syntax of OBST commands (``verbs''):
13.2.1 Details on the POINTING command:
13.2.2 Details of the GPOINT command:
13.3 The Pointing Model
13.4 Sample Pointing Session
14. Pointing sources
15. CHEF
15.1 Continuum Processing:
15.2 Example Procedures
15.2.1 DOSUBALL
15.2.2 pl4
15.2.3 pf
16. TOOLBOX CONT2 Software
16.1 To Get Help:
16.2 An Example Reduction:
16.3 Useful CONT2 Commands:
16.3.1 To Remove Spikes:
16.3.2 To Average Several Scans:
16.4 ONOFFD.C44:
17. MOPSI
17.1 Skydips:
17.2 ON-OFFs:
17.3 Double-beam maps
17.3.1 Creating the TD files:
17.3.2 Data reduction:
17.4 Displaying the data:
17.5 Using GreG:
18. Observer Log Sheets
19. Phone sites
19.1 Guide to the SMTO Phone System
19.2 Using the SMTO Phone System
19.3 Calling the SMTO from the outside
19.4 To send a FAX to the SMTO:
19.5 Special Buttons on Unit 10 (the control room desk phone)
19.6 Special Extensions:
19.7 Reprogramming the system:
20. Proposal Cover Sheet
Index
SMTO Manual Version 6.5, © May 2002, The SMTO Staff
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