MTA Monitoring Report 08/10/01 - 08/16/01

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Radiation

There were several radiation alerts issued on Aug 12, 2001.
On-board stored command sequence 107 ran at 228:0208. These were high evegy protons following a flare on the limb. The low energy particles arrived steadily after. ACE threshold was violated ~229:0930. Loads are currently stopped. Expect to restart near today's perigee passage (229:16:12). Restart Science ~230:04 if all clear.

ACIS/Radiation Environment correlations

CTI Trend

Average of ACIS-I CCDs (MnKa) slope 1.560e-8 CTI/day
Detrended slope 1.385e-8 CTI/day

ACIS Warm Pixels

The following pixels consistently showed a bias level more than 5 sigma away the chip's mean level during this period.
For more information see the link above and MTA monthly reports.

ACIS Focal Temperature

For this period, 3 peaks were observed.

MTA Problem Tracking

Note: Problem Tracking system is currently not working properly. Many problems reported are not listed on the table.

SIM Movements

12 TSC moves this period
weekly average time/step 0.00135 s
mission average time/step 0.00136 s

Telemetry

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Recent Observations

The ACA Problem is in the specified handling of guide star positional errors.
This issue in not significant to the final product and so is being worked at low priority.
OBSID DETECTOR GRATING TARGET ANALYSIS ACA
1896 ACIS-S LETG CAL87 OK /OK PROBLEM
2196 ACIS-S NONE IC1459 OK NOT AVAIL
1668 ACIS-S NONE SERSIC159-03 OK OK
1892 ACIS-S HETG HD223460 OK /OK OK
1016 ACIS-S HETG CYG X-2 OK /OK PROBLEM
1895 ACIS-S HETG GAMMA CAS OK /OK NOT AVAIL

Trending

This Week's focus ACIS.

No significant changes since last reported ( 05/25/01- 05/31/011 weekly).