This document is prepared by the IR, approved and released by the Instrumentation Division and updated by the IS. To a greater extent than the previous documents, the Calibration Plan will be regularly revised in the post-commissioning period. The Calibration Plan will be distributed to the ESO users community (e.g. published on the WWW). It contains the following information:
Actual Technical Programs (calibration Observation Blocks) are listed for the acquisition of the calibration data. The programs detail the targets to be acquired, time intervals for the execution of the technical programs, and indicates the calibration functions which are evaluated and the recipes involved.
The Calibration Database contains the Derived Data necessary for execution of the Pipeline. The master of the database is located in Garching, where it is prepared and updated by the Data Flow Instrument Responsible under supervision of the Instrument Scientist. The database is replicated in Paranal to run in Pipeline mode. It contains the following data.
Physical data are shared between instrument scientists. Each needs to make sure the calibration database required for the instrument(s) he is in charge are present.
Every reduction step in the pipeline is described. A validation set for the pipeline and expected accuracies for each step of the calibration will be defined.
Validation sets for ETC and other models will be described as well as expected accuracies.