MTA Monitoring Report 09/01/17 - 09/07/17

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Radiation

At the 11:30p.m. EDT pass last night 9/6 (250:03:30), it was noted that SCS 107 had run on Chandra. After review of the error logs it was noted that near 250:02:41 the HRC radiation monitor tripped an SCS 107 safing event. This was probably due to the arrival of a CME associated with the M5.5 event 9/4. GOES P13 proton flux level were high enough to predict such an occurrence. ACE P3 rates were unavailable due to a planned outage. Science instruments safed properly. A second CME associate with the X9 event of 9/6 is expected to arrive around 8 am EDT Friday 9/8 (plus/minus 6 hours).

Go to Science Run Interruption Page

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: 1.425e-02 CTI/year (3.903e-05 CTI/day)
Detrended slope: 1.613e-02 CTI/year (4.418e-05 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 (153,205) (143,700) (910,239) (802,665) (726,537) (847,364) (21,95)       (335,412)    
Flickering Warm Pixels (692,141)     (680,391)   (607,281) (357,303) (369,376) (669,577) (263,317) (233,314) (367,511) (161,206) (341,427) (1000,214)   (182,474) (197,241) (881,53)  
Current Hot Pixels                    
Flickering Hot Pixels                    
Warm column candidates           510 512 1022   512 1022    
Flickering Warm Column Candidates                    

ACIS Focal Plane Temperature

For this period, 7 peaks are observed.

Weekly focal plane temperature with sun angle, earth angle, and altitude overplotted. Sun angle is the solar array angle, that is the angle between the sun and the optical axis (+X axis). The earth angle is the angle between earth and the ACIS radiator (+Z axis). Altitude varies from 34 kkm to 128 kkm.



SIM Movements

9 TSC moves this period

Telemetry

New violations or new extrema are shown in blue cells.

MSID 09/01/17 09/02/17 09/03/17 09/04/17 09/05/17 09/06/17 09/07/17 yellow limits
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Units Description
1PIN1AT 344.99 344.99 344.99 344.99 344.99 344.99 320.47 (-20.0)
30.0
(-36.5)
36.5
C # PSMC TEMP 1A
HRMACAV   (284.85) (284.85) (284.85)   (284.85)   (293.4)
294.8
(292.8)
295.5
TEMP # HRMA CAVITY AVG
TFTERANGE     (0.00) (0.00)       (16.7)
34.5
(11.1)
42.0
K # TFTE VENT/RAD TEMP
TFTERANGE     35.66 34.92       (16.7)
34.5
(11.1)
42.0
K # TFTE VENT/RAD TEMP
5EPHINT 336.30   343.64 338.49 331.46 331.46   (261.15)
300.15
(258.15)
303.15
K #EPHIN TEMP
HKP5V     (5.06)         (5.08)
5.15
(5.06)
5.17
V #HK 5 Volts Rail - Voltage
HKEBOXTEMP 341.39   349.02 343.76       (268.15)
336.15
(253.15)
346.15
K #EPHIN HOUSEKEEPING EBOX: TEMPERATURE (5EHSE300)
S2HVLV (83.00) (83.00) (83.00) (83.00) (83.00) (83.00)   (126.0)
128.0
(125.0)
129.0
(2S2HVLV) #Shield PMT 2 HV monitor
RSRFALV   (150.00)           (172.0)
174.0
(171.0)
175.0
V #Range switch setting (2RSRFALV)
RSRFALV 190.00 190.00 190.00 190.00 190.00 190.00 190.00 (172.0)
174.0
(171.0)
175.0
V #Range switch setting (2RSRFALV)
PRBSCR   (0.01)           (1.24)
1.92
(0.90)
2.26
AMP #Primary bus current (2PRBSCR)
PRBSVL   (6.56)           (23.0)
34.0
(22.0)
35.0
V #Primary bus voltage (2PRBSVL)
SPINATM   (-34.50)           (-12.0)
35.0
(-15.0)
40.0
C #Spect det temperature (2SPINATM)
LVPLATM   (-51.40)           (-32.0)
50.0
(-35.0)
55.0
C #LVPS plate temperature (2LVPLATM)
SMTRATM   55.20           (-17.0)
45.0
(-20.0)
50.0
C #Selected motor temperature (2SMTRATM)
3TSMXCET 273.29 280.77 280.77 280.77 280.77 278.28 280.77 (153.15)
263.15
(148.15)
353.15
K #-X TURTLE SHELL NR HRC CEA
3TSMXSPT 313.19 313.19 313.19 315.69 318.18 315.69 315.69 (203.15)
283.15
(148.15)
353.15
K #-X TURTLE SHELL NR ACIS SS
4PRT3AT (258.46) (259.14) (259.14) (258.46) (259.14) (258.46) (257.79) (273.15)
283.15
(53.15)
368.15
K #IP A: PRE-COLLIMATOR PRT 3 TEMPERATURE


IRUs

Recent Observations

OBSID DETECTOR GRATING TARGET ANALYSIS ACA
19545 ACIS-23678 NONE SDSSJ111138.66+575030.0 OK OK
20635 ACIS-0123 NONE SPT-CLJ2344-4242 OK OK
18988 ACIS-5678 NONE GRB170817A OK OK
19216 ACIS-235678 NONE PSR J1622-4950 CC OK
19453 ACIS-6789 NONE SDSS 0051+0020 OK OK
20636 ACIS-0123 NONE SPT-CLJ2344-4242 OK OK
19710 ACIS-012367 NONE IRAS 09002-4732 OK OK
20725 ACIS-678 NONE M30 OK OK
19529 ACIS-7 NONE RBS 874 OK OK
19587 ACIS-01236 NONE ACT-CL J0034.4+0225 OK OK
18997 ACIS-678 NONE M30 OK OK

Trending

This week's focus is Ground Computed Gradients

Last reported on Jun 15.

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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