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// This code is generated by generate_code.py, do not modify it manually.
//! This module contains all the known columns in the commanded_scan_law table.
use crate;
/// This table provides a representation of the Gaia scanning law over the
/// 34 month time period covered by the Gaia Data Release 3 (from 2014-07-25
/// 10:31:26 to 2017-05-28 08:46:29), including the Ecliptic Pole Scanning
/// at the begin of the mission. Note that this is the commanded attitude of
/// the spacecraft, the actual attitude could deviate from it by up to about
/// 30 arcsec. Also, it does not contain any of the data interruptions that
/// occurred during the real mission, of which the main ones are listed in
/// Chapter [chap:cu0int], Section [cu0int_sec:release_framework].
///
/// The scanning law has been sampled at a 10 second interval, in which the
/// satellite rotates about 10 arcminutes (the target spin rate is actually
/// 59.9641857803 arcsec/sec). Note that this is several times shorter than
/// a typical field-of-view transit and the scan position angle will be
/// practically constant during this interval.
///
/// Notes:
///
/// - The times in columns 1, 2 and 3 are in Julian days in TCB with time
/// origin 2010-01-01T00:00 (JD 2455197.5), following the time
/// coordinate convention used in the Gaia archive. TCB stands for
/// Barycentric Coordinate Time and is the time standard used in Gaia
/// processing, equivalent to the proper time experienced by a clock at
/// rest in a coordinate frame co-moving with the barycentre of the
/// Solar system but outside its gravity well, therefore not influenced
/// by the gravitational time dilation caused by the Sun and the rest of
/// the solar system.
///
/// - Column 1 is the reference time for the spacecraft attitude, while
/// columns 2 and 3 give the times with the (relativistic) corrections
/// applied for the light-travel time to the solar system barycentre,
/// corresponding to an infinitely distant source at the RA, DEC at the
/// centres of FOV 1 and 2, respectively.
///
/// - FOV1 and FOV2 correspond to the preceding (PFOV) and following
/// (FFOV) fields-of-view, respectively.
///
/// - The centres of the field of views are separated by the basic angle
/// of 106.5 deg, see Fig. 2 of . Their origin in the focal plane is
/// illustrated in Fig. 3 of the same paper: both originate in the
/// astrometric field (AF) 7, with FOV1 in row 3 and FOV2 in row 5.
///
/// - The scan angle, theta, is the position angle of the direction in
/// which the FOV is moving (also called ‘along-scan’ direction), and is
/// defined in the usual astronomical sense: theta = 0 when the FoV is
/// moving towards local North, and theta = 90 degrees towards local
/// East.
///
/// - All values have been formatted to the default double numerical
/// precision and so this precision should not be interpreted as the
/// accuracy of the data.
;
/// The columns in the commanded_scan_law table.