1 Description ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Determination of panel screw settings for Plateau de Bure antennas, using holography. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The resulting files of screw motions will be named "panels-ani.dat" Additional input parameters: ---------------------------- 2 HPMODE "Modes " Specify the authorised panel motions, to be commanded by the screw settings. Five modes are allowed, since there are five screws on each panel (except 3 for ring 1). Available options are: Piston TRANSLATION of the whole panel, in the normal direction (1 mode). +Tilt Add the panel ROTATION, along axes tangential to the of the antenna surface (1+2 modes). +Torsion The same, plus panel TORSION: opposite panel corners move in the same direction, while adjacent panel corners move in opposite directions; the center does'nt move (3+1 modes) +Boss The same, plus the panel DEFORMATION where the panel center moves relative to its corners (4+1 modes). 2 HNITER "Num. Iterations ?" Number of iterations when solving for panel modes. The iterative procedure is used to allow for the finite resolution of the surface measurement, which is not negligible as compared to the panel size. At each iteration the effect of panel displacements are subtracted from the observed beam map, the residual beam map is used to compute a residual surface map, which is used to compute improved panel displacements. The default is 5 iterations, which is normally enough for a good convergence. At each iteration, both the surface map and the map of panel displacements are plotted. 2 HGAIN "Interative Gain ?" The gain of each iteration: this allows to subtract only a fraction of the panel displacements from the observed beam map, to improve convergence. This is not normally needed, so the default is 1. 2 HRINGS "Rings avoided for paraboloid fit ?" This string should contain the panel rings (numbered 1 to 6 from center to edge of the antenna surface, separated by spaces), which should be left out when fitting the reference paraboloid to the computed surface map. This allows to use only the "good" part of the surface to fit the paraboloid, using it as a reference for the rest of the surface (i.e. the "bad" part, the deformations of which one aims to correct). 2 HSECTS "Sectors avoided for paraboloid fit ?" This string should contain the panel sectors (numbered 1 to 16 clockwise from 09:00 hours on the plotted map, separated by spaces), which should be left out when fitting the reference paraboloid to the computed surface map. This allows to use only the "good" part of the surface to fit the paraboloid, using it as a reference for the rest of the surface (i.e. the "bad" part, the deformations of which one aims to correct). 1 END