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STANDARDS OF REST & REDSHIFT CORRECTIONS
You need to decide which
standard of rest you would like to use. The options are: None,
Heliocentric, Geocentric, Topocentric
or LSR. You also need to decide how you want this correction to be applied -
to the center of each correlator board or to the four boards as a whole
(thereby preserving the topocentric frequency offset between the boards).
Typically, this choice depends on whether
each board is centered on a known spectral line, or if you are doing a
search in velocity space for an object. If you have centered each
board onto a spectral line, then you likely want the boards to
have their velocity corrections determined individually.
If you are doing a search, in which case you want the relative
spacings of your boards to remain the same, then you should have the
velocity correction applied to the center of your boards. (In this case
you would choose the spectral line for which you are searching. See
Section 1.10 for more information.)
The last decision you need to make in this section is what velocity/redshift
system you would like to use in your source list. Currently the options
are: velocity(optical), velocity(radio), and z(optically determined redshift).
A thorough discussion of these options can be found in Chris Salter's
``Notes Relevant to Spectral Line Calibration" which can be found at
http://www.naic.edu/astro/misc.
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