Next: Observatory Contacts Up: Submitting a Telescope Proposal Previous: Proposal Deadlines and Procedures . ... The recommendations of the referees serve to guide the Arecibo Scheduling Advisory Committee (ASAC) in respect of the time allocation and relative ranking of all proposals. ... The proposal will be scheduled only if time is available. If not scheduled within the next two 4-month scheduling periods (beginning 4 months after the proposal deadline), the proposers will need to resubmit. ...

... 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. ...