Observing at the SRT with DISCOS

Contents:

• Release notes
  • Current release: what’s new
  • History
• Overview
  • What DISCOS is
  • Glossary: terms and abbreviations
• Checklist for schedule-based observations
• DISCOS startup
  • Login
  • What to use viewer01 for
  • What to use viewer02 for
• Initial setup
  • Antenna overall setup
  • Active Surface setup
  • Minor Servo configuration
  • Logfile and project code
• Antenna operations
• Frontend operations
  • General rules
  • Specific notes for the L/P receiver
• Backend operations
  • Total Power - focus selector
  • XARCOS
  • SARDARA
• Command-line measurements and acquisitions
  • Raw-counts readouts
  • Tsys
  • Weather parameters
  • Manual acquisitions
  • Caveat on offsets
• Use of the MF derotator
  • Rest position
  • Configurations
  • Rewinding
• Spectral line observations
  • Line rest frequency
  • Target velocity parameters
  • Commanding the doppler computation
  • Manually acquiring data
• Generating and launching a schedule
• Data formats and online quick-look
  • DISCOS FITS output files
  • Online data quick-look (FITS acquisitions)
  • If writer is MANAGEMENT/Point or MANAGEMENT/CalibrationTool
• Retrieving the data
  • Accessing your disk space
  • Data structure
• Appendix A - Monitor panels full description
  • operatorInput
  • AntennaBoss
  • Observatory
  • Mount
  • GenericBackend
  • ReceiversBoss
  • Scheduler
  • MinorServo
  • Logging Display
• Appendix B - Complete command list
• Appendix C - Output files
• Appendix D - Source catalogue
• Fault report and new feature requests