Observing with ASTE
If your proposal is approved
PI (a delegate) is required to create both observing and data reduction accounts and to submit an Observing Plan Sheet to NRO. To do this, PI must
- Check your observing schedule. (NOTE: Open-use observations are not allocated now.)
- Apply your new observing account one week before your observing runs start. (Japanese | English)
- Read through the notice (Japanese only) on making Observing Plan Sheet.
- Submit the Observing Plan Sheet on-line to make the accommodations at the observatory and toapply your new data reduction account. (Japanese | English)
This has to be done even if PI him/herself does not visit NRO or Mitaka. This Observing Plan Sheet is also used for making a request for data reduction account at NRO. Observers who will visit NRO or Mitaka can make a reservation of lodging with the sheet.
Preparing to observe
Account application
In advance to ASTE observations, PI must create both observing and data reductin accounts. It is necessary for all observers to create the data reduction account at NRO since observers will receive the ASTE data through the reduction account. You can use the account to reduce your data on the NRO work station. But you may also reduce your data on your own PC; see Reducing heterodyne spectroscopy data to install Newstar or Nostar.
- Observing account (required) (Japanese | English)
- Data reduction account at NRO (required) (Japanese | English)
Planing your observations
- Instrumentation and its status
- Making an observing table ('obstable')
- Information on pointing and flux-standard sources (Japanese | English)
- Determining parameters for OTF observations (Japanese | English)
Observing
Three remote sites (i.e., Mitaka campus of NAOJ, Nobeyama Radio Observatory, and the ASTE base facility in Chile) are available for observers to perform observations. Observer(s) (at least one person out of PI and co-investigators) must visit one of those sites and conduct observations during allocated time period. The remote observers can monitor aquired data, weather conditions and webcam images at the ASTE telescope site in real time.
Here is a step-by-step guide to remote observations.
- Preparing a remote observation (Japanese | English)
- Tuning (Japanese | English)（Only MAC+CATS345 is open in 2011.）
- Starting your observations (Japanese | English)
- Finishing your observations (Japanese | English)
- Quick-and-dirty reduction (Japanese)
- Monitors and note for remote observations (Japanese | English)
After observing
The following links show how to reduce the data and a guideline for publishing your results.
- Submission of the ASTE Observer Survey Form (required)
- Reducing heterodyne spectroscopy data
- Reducing AzTEC continuum data (PW required)
- When publishing your results (Japanese | English)