Intents

In the intents you should indicate the intent of the scan. By default it is set to "Observe Target" (for "Standard Observing"), but you can add more than one intent to it. For example for your phase calibrator you would tick "Complex Gain Calibration", for 3C286 you would choose "Flux Calibration" and for any suitable source you intend to use for bandpass calibration you would select "Bandpass Calibration". The most common options are shown, and the more specialized options that you probably would not want to use are hidden behind the "More" button. More than one intent may be ticked, and will be useful for later use, in particular for automated pipelining. Note that if you leave the intent to the default (Observe Target), you will not have calibrator codes with your data which may complicate your data reduction; in particular it will prevent automated pipelining to handle your data.

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