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Create a Science Goal

All the technical specifications for your project are contained in one or more (up to five) Science Goals. In theory, each Science Goal should describe the observations necessary to achieve a scientific objective, however in practice these may have to be split across several Science Goals for technical reasons (e.g. if you want to observe in different bands, or need the ACA for only one of your sources etc). Each Science Goal can contain either up to 15 sources to be observed with single field pointings, or one rectangular mosaic field setup, and is limited to one correlator setup and one set of Control and Performance parameters (see Step 3.8). You create a new Science Goal by clicking on the New Phase 1 Science Goal icon in the toolbar or selecting Edit New Phase 1 Science Goal from the Menu. The Science Goal can be renamed by right-clicking on the Science Goal node and selecting Rename, and a description can be optionally entered in the corresponding field. A template library containing a range of pre-defined science goals can be brought up with View Show ALMA Template Library. Note that you can also copy and paste Science Goals (or specific parts, such as the spectral setup) with Edit Copy and Edit Paste or dragging and dropping the components within the Project tree.


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The ALMA OT Team, 2013 Feb 27