MTA Monitoring Report 04/11/03 - 04/17/03

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Radiation

SCS107 ran autonomously at 2003:107:20:36 UT, triggered by a RADMON trip of the EPHIN P4GM channel near radiation zone entry. The last 3.3 ks of obsid 3577 were affected. Science resumed with obsid 4190 on perigee exit as originally scheduled.

From Joe DePasquale:
It is highly probable that the EPHIN P4 channel was contaminated by excessive electron flux in this trip. If you look at the EPHIN E150 9 day plot, notice that for the last perigee transit before today the E150 rates were approaching, and probably exceeding 10^5 cts/sec/cm^2/sr at ingress. The P4 channel was very close to tripping SCS107 on this orbit as well...most likely due to electrons and not protons.

Detrended CTI

CTI analysis is now computed with "detrending":
Detrend CTI = Measured CTI + S3 amplitude reject rate * Detrend factor.

Average of ACIS-I CCDs (MnKa) slope 8.576e-9 CTI/day
Detrended slope 8.813e-9 CTI/day

ACIS Warm Pixels



ACIS Focal Plane Temperature

For this period, 3 peaks are observed.

SIM Movements

7 TSC moves this period
weekly average time/step 0.00134 s
mission average time/step 0.00136 s

Telemetry

IRUs

The IRU-1 gyro-1 current has settled around 151-153 mA and become less noisy during this period. The gyro bias level has remained unaffected by the change in current and so to date, there has been no impact to science or operations.

Reaction wheel speeds have occasionally dropped below the limit of 52.4 rad/s due to our increased momentum envelope.

Recent Observations

"Prob" means that there was probably bad time data included in the manual runs. This will be corrected in future processing.

OBSID DETECTOR GRATING TARGET ANALYSIS ACA
3973 ACIS-S NONE 1136-135 OK OK
4110 ACIS-S NONE F12112+0305 OK OK
4433 ACIS-S NONE SATURN OK Prob
3725 ACIS-S NONE SATURN OK OK
4139 ACIS-S NONE FIRST J142114+282452 OK OK
3979 ACIS-S NONE M87 OK OK
4144 ACIS-S NONE J2044+7044 OK OK
3835 ACIS-S NONE RX J0007.0+7303 OK OK
4039 ACIS-S NONE 2MASS112751+243208 OK OK
4108 ACIS-S NONE Z11598-0112 OK OK
3984 ACIS-S NONE B2 1553+24 OK OK
3983 ACIS-S NONE B2 1422+26B OK OK
3929 ACIS-I NONE NGC 5746 OK OK
4126 ACIS-S NONE TXS 1428+370 OK OK
4091 ACIS-S NONE SDSS J143030.22-001115.1 OK OK
4394 ACIS-I NONE SN1006 OK OK
4393 ACIS-I NONE SN1006 OK OK
4392 ACIS-I NONE SN1006 OK OK
4391 ACIS-I NONE SN1006 OK OK

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