MTA Monitoring Report 03/22/24 - 03/28/24

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Radiation

03/24/24 Radiation Summary
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At the day 84 17:55z comm (Sunday afternoon), SCS-107 was observed to have run at 084:11:34:34Z (7:34 EDT). This was in response to the arrival of a CME triggered by an X1.1 solar flare Friday night located near the Sun-Earth meridian. The science instruments were confirmed safe during the real-time communication pass.

03/25/24 Shift Report
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The ACE P3 and HRC proxy have been declining from their peak values. The ACE P3 rate is now around 5,000 and the HRC proxy is now around 10,000. Both values are below their respective warning levels. Solar activity is expected to be moderate with a 85% chance for M-class flares and 25% chance for X-class flares on days one, two, and three (25 Mar, 26 Mar, 27 Mar).

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, 6 peaks are observed.

Day (DOY)	Temp (C)	Width (Days)
080.62	-89.03	0.71
082.07	-111.04	0.96
082.93	-112.60	0.69
083.66	-113.01	0.44
084.16	-110.66	0.93
085.16	-104.33	1.90

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

15 TSC moves this period

weekly average time/step	0.00131 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 EPHIN

Last reported on Jan 11.

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

• EPHIN Temperatures and Voltages

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