TNG HARPS-N, Руководство по эксплуатации

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2 Before the observations
Starts up the system following the instructions of the “HARPS-N Quick Start Guide” and take
care to read all the advices reported at the beginning of the manual.
2.1 The Observation blocks preparation
From the NSTS the observer can prepare the sequence of observation blocks of the night
(Figure 1).
The target can be inserted directly in the NSTS or by using a catalog file that contains the
objects information. The format of the catalog file is an ascii file and the fields separator is a
TAB (ascii code = 9).
The fields of the catalog are shown in Table 1, the mandatory fields are shown in bold format.
An example of catalog file is shown in the HARPS-N webpage:
(
http://www.tng.iac.es/instruments/harps/data/SpStdHARPSN.cat )
Table 1- Catalog file entries
name object code
alpha right ascension (nn:nn:nn.nn)
delta Declination (nn:nn:nn.nn)
mualpha proper motion alpha(arcsec/year)
mudelta proper motion delta (arcsec/year)
mv magnitude V
bv Bv
TypSp spectral type
radvel mean radial velocity (KM/sec) or -99999
snr Signal/Noise (550nm)
spectr spectral type for the mask(two chars only)
remarks Remarks
acquisition Acquisition template (es. HARPN_ech_acq_objA)
equinox Equinox
progid program identificator (es. TAC_xx)
piname PI name
exptime Exposure time