... P2864 Arecibo Observatory Date Received: 2013-Sep-03 16:15:21 William E. Gordon Telescope Observing Time Request COVER SHEET Section I - General Information Submitted for Sep 1 2013. ... We are requesting a total of 70 hours of observations at L-band over the course of one year, with an observation per day for the first ten days, then additional observations taken approximately once every other week there after. ... For these observations night-time is not needed. ...

... 2.3 Data acquisition Spectra generated by the Multibeam correlator contain the usual structure seen in spectra from other H i instruments: a bandpass spectrum which is the sum of the sky , ground and receiver temperatures multiplied by the product of the filters in the receiver chain; superimposed on this is a noise ... Note also that sources extended much beyond ,40 arcmin can be imaged poorly in HIPASS images because of the bandpass sidelobe effect described in Section 3.3. ...