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20080415 report
RxA pointing model update
Following the SCUBA2 engineering and
subsequent inclinometry
we have acquired 50 RxA pointing data in three nights
(UT20080412, 13, 15) of admittedly rather poor (grade 5) weather.
Individually, they show statistics
as follows
UT FE No. CA +- dS IE +- dZ
(daz) (del)
20080412 RxA 18 +1.2 +- 2.3 -0.5 +- 3.0
20080413 RxA 13 +0.2 +- 2.2 +1.4 +- 2.3
20080415 RxA 19 +1.7 +- 2.7 +3.6 +- 3.2
and combined without any adjustment for nightly collimation differences
they behave as follows:
Formal rms's in the (az,el) residuals (dS,dZ) are (2.5", 3.7") and
there are significant trends seen in the residuals as functions
of both azimuth and elevation (see the centre, upper-left and upper-center panels,
for instance). Some doubt may exist about the quality of data taken
in such weather, but a full
7-parameter fit seems warranted nonetheless.
A new model is obtained with predicted rms's of (2.2",2.7"):
and this model has been installed (HST 11:15 15 April 2008).
TPOINT old new approximate
term value value change significance
IA -263.61 -254.55 +9 1.5 sigma
IE -52.28 -54.21 -2 1
NPAE +53.56 +62.65 +9 1
CA -85.00 -96.35 -9 1
AN +17.76 +20.01 +2 4
AW -4.90 -6.45 -2 3
TF -10.05 -15.88 -6 2.5
The RxA data from the subsequent night are added to the table, as
are statistics from the combined HARP data taken during 4 nights
in the week thereafter:
UT FE No. CA +- dS IE +- dZ
(daz) (del)
20080412 RxA 18 +1.2 +- 2.3 -0.5 +- 3.0
20080413 RxA 13 +0.2 +- 2.2 +1.4 +- 2.3
20080415 RxA 19 +1.7 +- 2.7 +3.6 +- 3.2
20080416 RxA 15 +0.7 +- 1.8 -0.1 +- 2.4
20080416..22 H 49 +15.9 +- 2.1 +31.5 +- 3.0
20080425 H 13 +15.7 +- 1.6 +32.2 +- 3.4
[ The nominal collimation offsets for HARP are currently (+15",+35"). ]
Even without a working
K-mirror model,
HARP pointing suffers errors
only slightly worse than those for RxA.
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