TSL Examples

TSL Examples are also available sequentially in the full TSL documentation (pdf)

1. A simplified first visit for a planet program.
   • Example 1a - Two actions in the same track
   • Example 1b - Using efficient COMMON blocks
   • Example 1c - Simplify with ACTION_LIST
   • Example 1d - Using implied defaults
   • Example 1e - Single string instrument configurations (old format)
   • Example 1f - Human readable values for GASCELL
   
   
2. Subsequent visits for a planet search program.
   • Example 2a - 1 action per track, multiple tracks
   • Example 2b - Using a TRACK_LIST
   • Example 2c - Single string instrument configurations (old format)
   
   
3. Specifying targets with TRACK/TRACK_LIST and ACTION/ACTION LIST
   • Example 3a - Single target with GASCELL in and GASCELL out exposures
   • Example 3b - Two exposures in a single TRACK
   • Example 3c - Multiple tracks, multiple actions per track
   • Example 3d - Multiple sets of multiple tracks, with multiple actions per track
   
   
4. Non-standard calibration requests
   • Example 4a - Explicit keyword STDCALS, Th-Ar lamps (THAR), flat field (FF)
   • Example 4b - Calibration frame within a TRACK
   • Example 4c - Add a radial velocity (RV) standard of 2 or better at end of any night with specified target
   • Example 4d - EXTRACALS keyword
   • Example 4e - Specify number and exposure time of end-of-night calibration frames
   • Example 4f - EXTRACALS for each target
   • Example 4g - Leave EXTRACALS exposure time to RA discretion
   
   
5. Observations with two instruments in a single track
   • Example 5
   
   
6. Request a specific standard star be observed on the same night as the primary science target
   • Example 6a - Using a GROUP block of type AND
   • Example 6b - Standard immediately follows primary target - a GROUP block of type SEQ
   • Example 6c - Multiple targets matched to specific standards on the same night - a GROUP block of type AND
   • Example 6d - Multiple targets with associated callibrations immediately following primary targets - GROUP block of type SEQ
   • Example 6e - Add a standard on the same night, as multiple targets with associated callibrations in sequence
   • Example 6f - Order tracks possibly observed on different nights - GROUP block of type ORD
   • Example 6g - Conveniently add GROUP specifications to a TRACK_LIST
   
   
7. Specify a list of 10 targets from which 3 need to be completed
   • Example 7 - a GROUP block of type POOL
   
   
8. Provide a S/N goal, with a baseline exposure time
   • Example 8 - the SNWAVE keyword
   
   
9. Non-standard instrument configurations for special cases
   • Example 9 - the FILTER keyword
   
   
10. Specifiy a URL for a web-accessible finder chart (shared risk)
    • Example 10a - the PICHART keyword
    • Example 10b - Multiple charts