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IRAM30MLOG - IRAM 30-m Single-Dish Telescope Observation Log

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Overview

This table contains the IRAM 30-m single-dish telescope observation log. The Institut de Radio Astronomie Millimetrique (IRAM) was founded in 1979 and is operated as a French-German-Spanish collaboration. Its partner institutes are the CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France), the MPG (Max Planck Gesellschaft, Germany), and the IGN (Instituto Geografico Nacional, Spain). The principal activity of IRAM is the study of cold matter (molecular gas and dust) in the solar system, in our Galaxy, and out to cosmological distances, in order to determine its composition, density, mass, temperature, and kinematics.

IRAM operates two observatories at millimeter wavelengths which are open to the international astronomical community: the 30-m single-dish telescope on Pico Veleta (2850m), Spain, and the six-antenna interferometer on the Plateau de Bure (2550m) in France. Both sites are at high altitude to reduce the absorption by water vapor. The observatories are supported by the IRAM offices and laboratories in Granada and Grenoble.

The observation log included here concerns the 30-m single-dish telescope, and summarizes the observations made there between January 1, 2009, and December 31, 2010, inclusive. (The observation log for the Plateau de Bure Interferometer (PdBI) is available as the HEASARC database table IRAMPDBLOG.) For more information on IRAM, see the IRAM home page.

Catalog Bibcode

<B/iram/>

References

Plateau de Bure (IRAM) Interferometer Observation Log
     Dan M., Neri R
    <IRAM Newsletters (1991-2012)>

Provenance

This table was originally ingested by the HEASARC in January 2011. It is based on CDS table B/iram/, files 30m.dat and 30m_pi.dat. It was last updated in March 2012, based on an updated version of these tables which were also obtained from the CDS.

Parameters

Name
The source designation as given in the observing program.

RA
The Right Ascension of the observed source in the selected equinox. This was given in J2000 coordinates and to a precision of 0.01 seconds of time in the CDS table upon which this Browse table is based.

Dec
The Declination of the observed source in the selected equinox. This was given in either J2000 coordinates and to a precision of 0.1 arcseconds in the CDS table upon which this Browse table is based.

LII
The Galactic Longitude of the observed source.

BII
The Galactic Latitude of the observed source.

Time
The start time and date of the observation in UTC.

End_Time
The end time and date of the observation in UTC.

Scan_Number
The scan number of the observation on the day corresponding to the start time. The internal IRAM identifier of the observation ncsID is of the form Date.scan, e.g., the observation with scan number 2 on 2009 October 01 has ncsID = 2009-10-01.0002.

Observation_Mode
The observation mode used. The various observation modes are as follows: 

     * VLBI
     * onOff (taking data on and off source in quick succession)
     * onTheFlyMap
     * pointing
     * track
     * calibrate
     * focus
     * tip (a calibration to measure the opacity)

Program_Code
The identification code of the IRAM 30-m single-dish telescope program.

Tau_225_GHz_Zenith
The zenith optical depth tau at a frequency of 225 GHz from the tipping taumeter.

Receiver_Band_Name
The short rame of the receiver (band) used for the observation, e.g., E090 for the EMIR band E0 at 90 GHz, HERA 1, MAMBO2, etc.

Spectral_Line
The name of the spectral line observed, e.g., '12CO(1-0)', etc. If the observation was not of a spectral line, this field contains the observing frequency, in MHz, e.g., '212500'.

Spectral_Frequency
The observing frequency used, in GHz.

PI_Name
The name of the Principal Investigator under whose program the observation was carried out.

Contact Person

Questions regarding the IRAM30MLOG database table can be addressed to the HEASARC User Hotline.

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Last Modified: 15-Mar-2012