MTA Monitoring Report 4/13/01 - 04/19/01

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Radiation

SCS 107 Ran 2001:106:00:27 UTC
    Science restored 2001:107:04:33
    Lost Science Time 101 ks
    Obsids to be rescheduled: 2105, 2109, 2120, 1619, 2118, 2191, 1697

See lost science log for more details

Tue, 17 Apr 2001 20:20:03 EDT A Radiation violation of P3 (130Kev) was observed by ACE
(limit = fluence of 3.6e8 particles/cm2-ster-MeV within 2 hours)
No action taken, SI safed for rad zone passage.

CTI Trend

Average of ACIS-I CCDs (MnKa) slope 1.789e-8 CTI/day
Detrended slope 1.288e-8 CTI/day

NEW! ACIS/Radiation Environment correlations

ACIS Warm Pixels

The following front-illuminated pixels consistently showed a bias level more than 100 counts above the chips's mean level during this period.
For more information on these and the back-illuminated chips, see the link above and MTA monthly reports.

ACIS Focal Temperature

For this period, 3 peaks are observed.

MTA Problem Tracking

No new or reopened problems were reported in this period

Following msids are still coming
ES2P5CV 1DPDBBON ESAPYI ES1P5CV ESAPYI

SIM Movements

10 TSC moves this period
weekly average time/step 0.00136 s
mission average time/step 0.00139 s

Telemetry

On 4/13 and 4/16-4/17,

  • 1DPPWRB(Computed DP Power Side B) hit red warning with min of 7.49 (lower red limit: 8.0).

    4/14

  • Nominal HETG retraction

    On 4/17-4/18,

  • FAMTRTEMP(FA Motor Temperature) hit yellow warning with max of 284.6 (upper red limit: 282).
  • TSCIUSF1 (SC-IUS FITTING-1 TEMP) hit a yellow warning with a max of 349.70 (upper yellow limit: 347.0)

    4/18

  • Nominal HETG insertion
  • BOXTEMP (SEA Box Temperature) hit a yellow warning with a max of 292.15 (upper yellow limit: 292.0)
  • ELBI (Load Bus Current - high range) hit a yellow warning with a min of 51.28 (lower yellow limit: 52.0)


    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
    2022 ACIS NONE NGC 1316 OK PROBLEM
    2014 ACIS-S NONE NGC2403 OK OK
    2087 ACIS-S HETG MKN 509 OK /Grat missing
    1017 ACIS-S HETG EXO 0748-676 OK /Grat OK
    2070 ACIS-S NONE NGC 5018 OK OK
    971 ACIS-S NONE TWA-5 OK PROBLEM
    1646 ACIS-S NONE A3558 OK OK
    2080 ACIS-S HETG NGC 3516 Partial /Grat PROBLEM

    Trending

    This Week's focus PCAD
    Temperatures in degrees K.
    Current in Amps.
    Voltage in Volts.

    Most msids are keeping the same trends from the previous reporting period ( 01/26/01 - 02/01/01 weekly).
    Interesting trends are indicated with "*".