Contents

• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• Introduction
  • SWS
  • SWS Observing Time Estimator
• Instrument Description
  • Apertures: entrance optics and detector fields of view
  • Gratings
  • Detectors
• Overview of Instrument Modes and AOTs
  • Prime Observing Modes
  • Spatial Raster
  • Simultaneous Use of the two SWS Sections: Merging
  • Overview of SWS AOTs
    • The AOT Concept
    • SWS AOT Selection Tree
  • Further Considerations for SWS Observations
    • Restrictions
    • Pointing
    • Diffuse Background Emission
    • Rest Wavelengths
• Calibration
  • Overall Strategy
  • Astronomical Calibration Sources
  • Expected Accuracy
• Performance Overview
  • Grating Sections
    • Grating Spectral Resolution
    • Grating Spectral Response and Sensitivity
    • Detector Linearity and Noise
    • Saturation
  • Fabry-Pérot Section
    • Spectral Resolution
    • Sensitivity
    • Noise
    • Saturation
    • Leakage
    • Tracking Noise
    • Effective F-P Gap
  • Factors Common to both Grating and Fabry-Pérot Sections
    • Point sources vs. extended sources
    • Memory effects
• AOT Cookbook
  • AOTs and observing strategy
  • Overheads
  • Recipes for the planning of proposals using SWS
  • Merging: simultaneous use of the SW and LW sections
  • AOT SWS01: Low-Resolution Full Grating Scan
    • Description
    • AOT SWS01 sample time-line
    • Observing parameters AOT SWS01
    • How to compute the approximate SNR of an AOT SWS01 observation
    • Time required for AOT SWS01
    • Performance Figure AOT SWS01
  • AOT SWS02: Grating Line Profile Scan
    • Description
    • AOT SWS02 sample time-line
    • Observing Parameters AOT SWS02
    • How to compute approximate duration of an AOT SWS02 observation
    • Example of an AOT SWS02 observation
    • Raster observations with AOT SWS02
    • Performance Table and Figures AOT SWS02
  • AOT SWS06: Grating Scan
    • Description
    • AOT SWS06 sample time-line
    • Observing Parameters AOT SWS06
    • How to compute approximate duration of an AOT SWS06 observation
    • Example of an AOT SWS06 observation
    • Raster observations with AOT SWS06
    • Performance Figures AOT SWS06
  • AOT SWS07: Combined Fabry-Pérot Line Scan and SW Grating Scan
    • Description
    • Observing Parameters AOT SWS07
    • How to compute approximate duration of an AOT SWS07 observation
    • Example of an AOT SWS07 observation
    • Performance Figures AOT SWS07
• Data Analysis and Products
  • Introduction
  • Real-Time Assessment and Quick-Look Analysis
  • Standard Product Generation Pipeline
  • Interactive Analysis
• Index