Background
The SRDP webpage states that "The SRDP pipeline is optimized for continuum science. Observations should have wide (~1 GHz or wider) bandwidths (i.e. be focused on continuum science, not on narrow spectral lines)."
However this can lead to some ambiguity when the observation is in a grey area between "obvious" spectral line (e.g. very narrow spectral windows) and "obvious" continuum (large bandwidth close to or equal to the maximum in that band).
Therefore the following criteria should be used for SRDP:
- If total bandwidth =< 2GHz and C-band or above (i.e. purely 8-bit, not 3-bit or mixed 3-bit/8-bit), check the proposal abstract to see if the primary aim is continuum or spectral line (feel free to double-check with a Stage 2 Reviewer if unsure).
- Currently L-band and S-band are non-SRDP. If/when they are eventually added to SRDP, use the following criteria:
- for L-band: at least 1 GHz of total bandwidth and no individual basebands < 500 MHz
- for S-band: at least 1 GHz of total bandwidth, and no individual basebands < 1000 MHz in L-band.