MTA Monitoring Report 04/25/03 - 05/01/03

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Radiation

The observing schedule was autonomously interrupted by SCS107 at 2003:120:23:36 UT due to a high radiation event. The high radiation is thought to be associated with the currently active coronal stream as Chandra approached the radiation belts, as was the case on April 17. The loads were restarted at 2003:121:21:15 UT.
Obsids affected: 3997 (partial), 4128, 3733. Lost science time: 25 ks.

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 8.485e-9 CTI/day
Detrended slope 8.732e-9 CTI/day

ACIS Warm Pixels



ACIS Focal Plane Temperature

For this period, 2 peak are observed.

SIM Movements

10 TSC moves this period
weekly average time/step 0.00144 s
mission average time/step 0.00136 s

Telemetry

IRUs

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. The procedure and products to perform a swap to IRU-2 were approved last week by the Flight Director Board and are available in the event they are needed.

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
3997 ACIS-S NONE NGC 4450 Partial? Prob
4014 ACIS-S NONE NGC4102 OK OK
4138 ACIS-S NONE FIRST J122749+321459 OK OK
3837 ACIS-I NONE TYCHO'S SNR 1/2.Dith.Off OK
4384 ACIS-I NONE PSR B1509-58 Dith.Off OK
4106 ACIS-S NONE F04103-2838 Dith.Off OK
3832 ACIS-S NONE 3C58 Dith.Off OK
4382 ACIS-S NONE 3C58 OK OK

Trending

This Week's focus HRMA Thermal.
Trends last reported on Feb 06.
Only the most interesting or representative msids are shown below. For a full listing choose the bulletted link.