- JWST What's New - provides a description of major new features or changes for the cycle
- Under the File Menu, there are several JWST Demonstration Proposals
to help you get oriented with APT.
- Start APT and load a proposal. Under the New Document menu,
select New JWST Proposal. If you want to read in an existing proposal,
then under the File menu, select Open or Open Recent and browse to
where your file is.
- Start the Form Editor by clicking on this tool in the
toolbar; if you opened a New JWST Proposal, you will be in the Form
Editor by default. Click on
Proposal Information
in the Tree Editor, and fill in the Title and
Abstract, and if the default values are not appropriate,
the Category and Cycle. You will also need to
select the Scientific Category and Science Keywords, as well as
provide a file name for the PDF attachment.
Those items marked with a
in with
the Form or Tree Editor are
either incomplete or have incorrect values. A finished proposal
should have no
(and few, if any,
warnings) present on
any page or in the tree editor. The diagnostics may suggest what is
missing.
- Navigation. At the bottom of the form are buttons that can
be used to navigate through the various proposal forms in a suggested
order. The left arrow button goes to an earlier form, the New button
allows for the creation of appropriate proposal elements, and the
right button goes to the next form in the suggested sequence.
Alternatively, the Tree Editor can be used to select any proposal
element at any time.
-
Fill in the Proposal Description.
Click on the navigation button below the form to go to the next form, the
Proposal Description. This page includes only the Observing Description.
- Fill in the PI and
Co-I
information.
Click on the navigation button below the form to go to the next form, the
Principal Investigator Form. Alternatively, click on the PI element in the
Tree Editor. If you are on-line, enter your last name (or the first few
characters of your last name) and either tab or hit return. APT will do an
address lookup from the STScI address database. If you locate your name,
select your record in the Lookup window and hit Select, which will populate
the required address fields. If you are unable to find your information then
hit the Add New Investigator button, which will take you to the ProPer tool
so that you can add the new person to the database. If you are in the
database, but the
address information is wrong, then click on the Update This Address button,
which will again take you to ProPer so you can update the information. See the
address FAQ for more information.
Navigate to the Co-I page and enter your Co-I information. Use the New
pulldown under the toolbar to add more Co-Is. To delete an unused Co-I
template, select the item in the Tree Editor, go to the File menu, and select
Delete.
-
Target Form. Continue to the Target form. There are several
options - a fixed target (manual entry or a
target resolver), Target Group, a solar system target, and a generic target; NIRSpec
reference stars are included in the MSA configuration.
There is also a
fixed target import capability).
For a fixed target, specify the Name, Category, Description, and Coordinates.
If relevant, also
supply the Extended keyword, background observation request, proper motion,
and/or parallax values.
For Solar
System targets, detailed ephemeris information is required, while for
Generic targets, on the general criteria (e.g. the next supernova) is
required,
- Create an Observation Folder. After completing the
target specification, you can start specifying your Observations.
Select Observations, and then New Observation Folder. Select the
MSA Planning Tool tab if you want to use the MSA tool.
If you want to label the observation folder, or include a comment,
fill in those fields. The Observation Folders can be used to
organize your Observations (for example, a separate folder for
each instrument, and separate folder for each epoch, etc.), or you
can include all Observations in one folder.
The table will give a summary of your observations once you have
populated the observing templates.
- Edit an Observation.
To edit an Observation, either select it in the Tree Editor, use
the navigation button, on click in the continuing editing box.
This form is where you will you select your observing template,
and fill in the details. You should fill in the label
(if desired), select the instrument, template, and target.
Note that when you select a template, the template parameters appear
in APT. The next lines provide information on Visit Splitting,
accounting, and Data volume (and will be updated as the template
is completed).
- Populate a Template.
Enter the required information into the template. Once the readout
parameters are completed, the Total Dithers, Total Integrations and Total
Exposure Time will be populated.
As the individual filter lines are completed, the
accounting information is populated.
If you were doing a mosaic, you would go into the
mosaic tab
(document,
movie).
If you had any special requirements, you would go into the
Special Requirements tab
(document,
movie)
- Create other Observations as required, by
clicking on the New/New Observation button above the form. If other Observations
are similar to an existing one, it may
be expedient to duplicate the Observation by clicking on it in the Tree
Editor and selecting Duplicate (or Multiple Duplicate) from the Edit
menu. An alternate method for copying exposures is to use the Copy
and Paste option in the Edit menu; see the movie on
Editting with the
Tree Editor .
- Visit Planner. Now run the Visit
Planner and adjust
parameters to increase schedulability, if necessary. See the Visit Planner
document and
movie
for more information.
- Save your work. Throughout the above process, it is
advisable to save your proposal by clicking on Save (or Save As) in the
File menu.
- Create another Observation Folder if required, by clicking on
Observations in the
Tree Editor and then clicking on the New Observation Folder button.
Alternatively,
if subsequent folders are similar to an existing folder, it may be
expedient to copy/duplicate that visit by using the Copy/Duplicate
menu item in the Edit menu. Note that it is possible to
copy/duplicate multiple visits at a time (by clicking on the first
visit in the Tree Editor, shift-clicking on the last visit, and the
selecting Copy/Duplicate from the Edit menu).
- Process the new Observations.
- Use the
Aladin tool. Optionally, look at your exposures in the
Aladin tool. See the Aladin help and movies for more information.
- Run Smart Accounting. After you have completed all your
observations and run them through the Visit Planner, you should run
Smart Accounting.
- View the proposal in PDF format by selecting the
PDF
Preview tool. You can select either the TAC view or the detailed
operational view; the operational view is shown below.
- Submit the proposal by selecting
the Submission tool. Type
in any comments that you have, and click on the Submit
button. In the Submission Log window you will see a message giving the
time of the submission, the assigned proposal ID (if a new proposal),
and the submission status.
The PI and all CoIs will receive an automatic email acknowledgment that
the merged PDF submission was received successfully.