MTA Monitoring Report 04/17/15 - 04/23/15

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Radiation

Quiet

Detrended CTI

Although we prefer to quote CTI values of the cleanest data (FT <= -119.7 C, int time > 7000sec), the data that fulfills these conditions are getting rare. We now quote CTI based on temperature corrected data for Focal plane temperature <= -118.5 C).

The unit is now CTI/year not CTI/day.

Average of ACIS-I CCDs (MnKa) slope: 1.582e-6 CTI/year (4.333e-9 CTI/day)
Detrended slope: 1.559e-6 CTI/year (4.268e-9 CTI/day)

ACIS Warm Pixels

We display all bad pixels that have showed up in past, and, if any, previously unknown bad pixels appeared in the last 14 days. We also list hot pixels (defined as 1000 above the average of bias background). Warm columns 509-514 are probably due to boundaries.

New definitions of warm pixels and flickering pixels (May 15, 2014). If a pixel displays the level beyond a threshold for more than 70% of the time in the past two weeks, the pixel is categorized as a "warm" pixel. If a pixel is above the threshold more than 30% of time but less than 70% of the time in the past two weeks, the pixel is categorized as a "flickering" pixel.

 CCD0CCD1CCD2CCD3CCD4CCD5CCD6CCD7CCD8CCD9
Previously Unknown Bad Pixels                    
Current Warm Pixels       (21,95)   (357,303) (369,376) (161,206)   (335,412)    
Flickering Warm Pixels (692,141) (667,782) (153,205) (143,700) (910,239) (802,665) (726,537) (526,66) (811,637) (247,364) (607,281) (669,577) (263,317) (367,511) (341,427) (1000,214)   (833,325) (737,382) (157,47) (182,474) (197,241) (356,902) (881,53) (838,239) (40,49) (150,374) (636,819)
Current Hot Pixels                    
Flickering Hot Pixels                    
Warm column candidates         884 510 512 1022   512 1022    
Flickering Warm Column Candidates                    

ACIS Focal Plane Temperature

For this period, 2 peaks are observed.

Weekly focal plane temperature with sun angle and altitude overplotted. Sun angle is the solar array angle, that is the angle between the sun and the optical axis (+X axis). Altitude varies from 10 kkm to 130 kkm.



SIM Movements

6 TSC moves this period

Telemetry

New violations or new extrema are shown in blue cells.

MSID 04/17/15 04/18/15 04/19/15 04/20/15 04/21/15 04/22/15 04/23/15 yellow limits
(lower)
upper 		red limits
(lower)
upper 		Units Description
OHRTHR27 297.33 297.32 297.34 297.34 297.34 297.34 297.35 (295.48)
297.15		(279.37)
307.15		 K RT 20 : PERISCOPE
OHRTHR42 294.49 294.45 294.56 294.60 294.60 294.65 294.65 (292.15)
294.37		(279.37)
307.15		 K RT 133: PERISCOPE
OHRTHR43 294.23 294.19 294.44 294.59 294.59 294.66 294.66 (291.59)
293.26		(279.37)
307.15		 K RT 134: PERISCOPE


IRUs

Recent Observations

OBSID DETECTOR GRATING TARGET ANALYSIS
17644 ACIS-7 NONE RW Aur OK OK
17110 ACIS-56789 HETG PG 1211+143 OK OK
17407 ACIS-01236 NONE A1795 CAL OK
17408 ACIS-01236 NONE A1795 CAL OK
17409 ACIS-01236 NONE A1795 CAL OK
17091 ACIS-7 NONE 1928+738 OK OK
17530 ACIS-01236 NONE Cygnus A - E Hotspot OK OK
17455 ACIS-23678 NONE GRB 130702A OK OK
17570 ACIS-35678 NONE SN2014C OK OK
17476 ACIS-01236 NONE G256.45-65.71 OK OK
16822 ACIS-3 NONE PSR B1259-63 OK OK

Trending

This week's focus is EPHIN .

Last reported on Feb 12.

Only the most interesting or representative msids are shown below. For a full listing choose the bulletted link.

Min/max envelopes in dark blue appear on the trending plots. The envelopes are 4th degree fits to the monthly minimum and maximum values for each MSID. The final polynomial form and binning are still being experimented with. We will soon add to the trending pages a report of the fits and predictions they give on future limit violations. The light blue curve is our original smoothing of all the data over 30 day moving boxcars. The green/yellow line is a linear fit to all the data; the break occurs at a limit change.



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