MTA Monitoring Report 03/11/22 - 03/17/22

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Radiation

There was a CME passage over the weekend, possibly related to a filament eruption a few days earlier. High ACE P3 rates were recorded. MTA ACE P3 alert was triggered on Sunday morning, Mar 13, 2022. Total ACIS fluence for that orbit was 3.2 x 10^9.

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.

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.

ACIS Focal Plane Temperature

For this period, 11 peaks are observed.

Day (DOY)	Temp (C)	Width (Days)
068.36	-113.62	0.51
069.04	-113.31	0.44
069.52	-111.95	0.47
070.25	-107.90	1.21
071.34	-111.48	0.62
072.02	-111.65	0.53
072.87	-99.26	0.92
073.63	-111.30	0.65
074.11	-112.27	0.48
074.55	-114.20	0.33
074.85	-113.53	0.42

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

7 TSC moves this period

weekly average time/step	0.00132 s
mission average time/step	0.00132 s

Telemetry

New violations or new extrema are shown in blue cells.

IRUs

Gyro Bias Drift	Gyro Bias Drift Histogram

Recent Observations

Trending

This week's focus is Spacecraft Bus and Subsystem Trends

Last reported on Dec 30.

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

• Battery Usage

• S/C Main Temperatures

• S/C Anc Temperature

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