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Observing Unit Sets

The OUS is a fundamental part of the construction of an SB and, as explained in Section 3.4, a fixed OUS nested structure has been agreed. This is automatically produced during SB generation and should also always be followed when creating SBs manually. If desired, the entire contents of all OUSs (and their associated SBs) can be protected from editing by activating OUS Write Protection from the Advanced tab of the Preferences menu.

If a Phase-2 program is being constructed manually i.e. without a pre-defined Science Goal, the first step is to create a top-level OUS (usually refered to as the Science Goal OUS) in the Program tab of the Project Tree. This is done via the Science Plan folder, either by using the right-mouse menu or the toolbar icon. A new Special Observing Program folder will be created, and within this, the top-level OUS. Group and Member OUSs should then follow.

Clicking on an OUS will reveal its Form editor which contains a number of panels, very few of which are actually used at this time. Probably the only real option at the moment is to set the OUS name to something useful.

Figure 6.1: An example of a typical project structure. For this FDM project, two sources have been split into separate Group OUSs, each of which requires two Member OUSs, one for the ALMA 12-m array and one for the ACA. For only the first SB is its internal structure shown.
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