990516 report
Inclinometry, CW & CCW
SUMMARY
Inclinometry was taken during the early morning of 16 May 1999
and a new track model was created and installed on the 17th.
Concerns over a CCW 'loss of symmetry' are abated somewhat.
Datasets HST start mean leg temperatures Humidity
start middle end %
( inc990512cw 00:22 5.5 4.4 3.8 40 )
inc990516ccw 02:43 1.4 1.8 2.1 45
inc990516cw 05:53 2.1 2.3 2.6 45
The difference between the clockwise models 990516cw and 990512cw
is shown below :
-
The rms scatters in the (F1,F2,F3) differences are
(1.03", 0.27", 0.47").
-
The saw-tooth nature of the F1 difference looks like the inverse
of that seen in the
990508-990502 difference.
-
The new track model was installed at 13:10 HST on 19990517.
Symmetry
The symmetry remains good
(see the plot ), if
not at its perfect best.
We add the CCW data to the database started on
990512 ,
dataset scatter about the best-fit str line to
Ch2 -vs- Ch8 Ch5(phase-flipped) -vs- Ch8
i.e. TY -vs- RY LY(phase-flipped) -vs- RY
------------ ---------- -------------------------
inc971031cw 0.59" 1.56"
inc971031ccw 0.79 2.37
inc980820cw 0.76 4.30
inc980820ccw 0.74 4.98
inc990511cw 0.73" 1.41"
inc990511ccw 1.05 1.87
inc990512cw 0.72 1.56
inc990516cw 0.70 1.65
inc990516ccw 0.84 1.68
- perhaps my earlier fears that the antenna 'loses its
symmetry' going CCW are not justified.
CW-CCW
The cw-ccw data are shown below :
As seen on
990512 ,
the differences in (F2,F3) are small, with
rms scatters of (0.19", 0.37"), and
the difference in F1 is similar to that seen on all occasions when CW and
CCW data have been taken :
As stated on
990512 ,
the amplitudes on the scale of the track segments seems
relatively
unchanged since 980820, but the overall amplitude now (6") is more like
that at 971031 rather than at 980820 (9").
It's going to be difficult to show more CW-CCW datasets clearly in
this format. I have experimented with displaying the differences
between these CW-CCW differences between one dataset pair and another,
but the terminology gets confusing and the displays are not significantly
more helpful.
Iain Coulson
17 May 1999
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