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20030602 report b
Tracking experiment through northern transit
BLLac was tracked (using the'map16'
technique) for an hour straddling transit through the north.
Plots of the residuals against azimuth are shown below (with time running
from right to left) :
Click on image for better view
There are no large and significant structures (in azimuth or
elevation) or steps (in elevation) that would indicate significant
track model errors or transit effects, respectively. Note however, that
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the strongest excursion - that in del at az=368 -
does not correspond to any track joint,
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the elevation data may be deemed to be more negative
before transit (az>360) and positive afterwards, but as transit
effects go, it's quite weak.
The rms scatters on the hour's worth of data are (1.1", 1.2") in (daz,del).
Tracking seemingly benefits from the use of the
hybrid track model.
Iain Coulson
Latest Update : 02 June 2003
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