MTA Monitoring Report 09/07/01 - 09/13/01

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Radiation

A rise in background was observed on 9/12, just before radiation passage.WE WILL CALL a telecon this afternoon for before the 4:20pm EDT pass, (unless the ACE rates nosedive down toward ~1000 before then.) Be alert for a page to sot_red_alert.

ACIS/Radiation Environment correlations
There seem to be background jumps just prior to the last three radiation passages (HRC was in the focal plane prior to the DOM 779 passage). The jumps seem confined to the backside chips. The first obsid is 2077, the second is 2064 (The figure below is smoothed on a 5 min. interval without distinguishing any grades/quality of data. Click on the obsid for a close up of the count rates (events /3.2 seconds))

CTI Trend

Average of ACIS-I CCDs (MnKa) slope 1.433e-8 CTI/day
Detrended slope 1.334e-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, 2 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

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

Telemetry

9/8 9/9 9/10 9/11

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
1022 ACIS-S HETG NGC6624 OK /MISSING PROBLEM
2255 ACIS-I NONE NGC55 OK OK
2021 ACIS-S NONE IC4296 OK OK
2300 ACIS-I NONE 1RXSJ104047.4-704713 OK OK
1913 ACIS-S NONE SAXJ1324.5-6313 OK PROBLEM
2071 ACIS-S NONE NGC4125 OK OK
2025 ACIS-S NONE NGC3556 OK OK
1043 ACIS-S NONE NGC6946 OK OK
1042 ACIS-S NONE 3C397 OK OK
1980 HRC-S NONE 1RXSJ1639+5656 NO AVAL OK
1978 HRC-S NONE 1RXSJ1450+6559 NO AVAL OK
2911 HRC-I NONE M31-N2 OK MISSING
2907 HRC-I NONE M31-N1 OK OK
2903 HRC-I NONE M31-CORE OK MISSING
2890 HRC-I NONE M31-S1 OK OK
2886 HRC-I NONE M31-S2 OK MISSING

Trending

This Week's focus SIM.
Temperature in degrees K.
Voltage in volts.
Current in amps.

No significant changes since last reported on Jun 28 .
The most interesting trends are indicated with "*".