Well constrained jiggle maps of Mars taken during Dec 2000

. . meaning those preceded by pointing/focus/align_x/align_y/pointing and in close temporal proximity to a skydip.

 UT date  #    UT    tau_cso  see  skydip#    tau_850      tau_450
 Dec 2000
   08    83   17:40   0.12   0.69    84   0.464 +- 0.014     -
   09    74   17:57   0.10   0.39  68,77 +0.419 +- 0.013     -
   09    83   19:32   0.11   0.89  77,86 +0.387 +- 0.008  2.17 +- 0.06
   10    46   18:19   0.07   0.42    47   0.232 +- 0.011* 1.43 +- 0.02
   19    89** 16:49   0.09   0.24    92   0.344 +- 0.011  1.91 +- 0.16
   24    97   18:40   0.09   0.26    98   0.152 +- 0.002  0.69 +- 0.01

* - strangely poor 
+ - used equal time divisions for night of UT 20001209 between 
    skydips and jiggle maps.
** - chop 45" LO : others are 120" AZ

Beam Parameters (after rebinning into AZ coordinates)

850um

    UT   #    ratio  orient  Gamma FHWM_min stats_max   FCF
              max/min deg             "      volts      Jy/V

20001208:83   1.079   175    2.122  14.67    1.289      225
      09:74   1.068   177    2.144  14.82    1.339      218
      09:83   1.058   166    2.120  14.91    1.311      223
      10:46   1.061     2    2.134  14.97    1.229      240
      19:89   1.041   175    2.214  15.42    1.504      212
      24:97   1.041    21    2.148  15.05    1.585      210
             -------        ------  ------             -----
              1.058          2.147  14.97               221
           +-    15             34     25                11

     c.f.     1.057          2.154  14.97               219  
           +-     4              7     25                21  

from the June 2000 analysis of early-2000 data.

450um

    UT   #    ratio  orient  Gamma FHWM_min stats_max   FCF
              max/min deg             "      volts      Jy/V

20001209:83   1.113   114    1.887  7.557     3.72      260
      10:46   1.141    95    1.812  7.273     3.17      308
      19:89   1.092   138    2.119  8.147     3.83      273
      24:97   1.022    95    1.990  8.119     3.91      278
             -------        ------ -------             -----
              1.09           1.95   7.8                 280
           +-    5             13     5                  20

  cf          1.17           1.94   7.6                 308           
           +-    9             12     6                 109

from the same analysis.

Conclusion

The 850W and 450W beams of SCUBA are unchanged from a year ago in all measurable ways.


Iain M. Coulson
04 Jan 2001