The Command Language OBS _inp

Version for the Effelsberg 100-m RT

updated March 1998
(J. Neidhöfer)

For a Postscript Version click here:      obsinp-postscript

 

• Contents
• What's New in this Version
• Introduction
• FOREWORD to the Original IRAM-Version
• Fundamentals
• Active and Passive Field
• OBS _inp Syntax.
• Setting Up an Observation.
• General Terminology of the Manual.
• Basic Definitions
• The Console Keys
• Working with OBS _inp
• OBS _inp under OBS _E
• ON-LINE Help
• Input of Angles
• Azimut/Elevation LIMITS of the 100-m Telescope
• Using Command Files
• The Protocol File
• Opening a New Protocol File
• Entering Comments in the Protocol File
• Catalogs of Radio Source Data
• Coordinate Systems
• The Special Cases B = 2 and B = 7 :
• The Case B = 10 :
• General NOTE:
• TABLE 1
• Astronomical Basis Systems
• TABLE 2
• Solar System Objects
• The Planets
• The Satellites of a Planet
• An Arbritrary Body of the Solar System
• Geostationary Satellites
• The Descriptive $\lambda$ , $\beta$ Coordinate System
• The Effect of OLAM and OLAM *
• Schematic Diagram of a Cross-scan and Cross-raster
• The Azimut/Elevation - System (A,a)
• Control of the Subreflector (FCi)
• Polarization Control (POS)
• The Telescope Pointing
• The Pointing Constants
• The Pointing Corrections
• The Meaning of the Pointing Corrections
• Limits on the Input Values
• Displaying the Pointing Constants
• The Constants for Hysteresis Effects
• The Constants for Receiver Position
• Other Control Commands
• Starting and Stopping a Scan.
• Clearing Options and Offsets
• Book-keeping Commands
• Input and Use of Weather Data
• Radial Velocities and Frequency Calculations
• Control of the Frontends
• Frequencies
• Oscillator System
• Frontend Control
• Control of the Backends
• Continuum Backend
• Analog Chart Recorder Output
• Data Output
• Line Backends
• 1024-Channel Autokorrelator
• Handling Frequencies and Velocities
• Control Commands
• Data Output
• Data Compression Mode
• 8192-Channel Autokorrelator
• Handling Frequencies and Velocities
• Control Commands
• Data Output
• Index
• About this document ...