I measured the beam pointing sensitivity of all the eight ISS second loop diodes. The naming is the one corresponding to the new slow channel acquisition, we'll check tomorrow the correspondence to the PD1-8 signals. For some diodes, in pitch, I was not able to see any significant modulation
Channel | dP/P/x [1/m] PITCH | dP/P/x [1/m] YAW |
CH24 - PD1 | - | 560 |
CH25 - PD2 | 140 | 910 |
CH26 - PD3 | 170 | 340 |
CH27 - PD4 | - | 150 |
CH28 - PD5 | - | 370 |
CH29 - PD6 | 220 | 1610 |
CH30 - PD7 | 780 | 520 |
CH31 - PD8 | 270 | 540 |
For those not familiar with the meaning of these numbers, the typical values measured for the ISS array before installation were between 1 and 30, depending on the array and on the diode. So the numbers I got are in general quite large.
This beam position on the PD is maybe not the best one, since we are not at the maximum power for all the diodes simultaneously. For each diode, it is possibile to find a beam position that gives maximum power. This also corresponds to undetectable coupling of beam motion to dP/P (at least at this level of excitation). However, the good position is different for each diode, and the non optimal one can have a significant loss of power and large coupling of beam motion to dP/P. The table above is representative of what we normally get.
Here is the procedure in details