ALMACycle-5ObservingTool(OT)

1.ALMASciencePortal(http://www.almascience.orgà http://almascience.nao.ac.jp)

Proposingà ObservingTool

2.Proposingà ProposalTemplate

§ ScientificJustification(LaTex template:includingfigures,tablesandreferences)- 4pages:Regular,DDT,ToO,Solar,mm-VLBIproposals- 6pages:LargeProgramproposals

§ Otherformatsarealsookay,likeWord,aslongastheycanbeturnedintoapdffileanduseatleast12ptcharacters.

3.Duplicationcheck!(Proposalà DuplicateObservations)

- Sametargets,frequency,angularresolution,coverage,sensitivity- Check:ALMAarchive,spreadsheetprovidedbelowtoavoidduplicateobservations

Tip1.ALMASolarEphemerisGenerator(http://celestialscenes.com/alma/coords/CoordTool.html)

Tip2.ASCIIfile:FieldSetup

Tip3.EstimatethePeakfluxdensityperbeamusingfluxmeasurementfromotherobservations

(https://help.almascience.org/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Article/View/286)

Tip4.Splatalogue(http://www.cv.nrao.edu/php/splat/)