- M&TA MONTHLY REPORT -
February 2009
OUTLINE
- Configuration
- ACIS
- Dose
- CTI
- Focal Plane Temperature
- Bad Pixels
- Background
- HRC - Dose
- Gratings - Focus
- PCAD
- ACA Trending
- Gyro bias drift
- Science Instrument Positional Change Monitoring
- Radiation Zone Timing
- Trending
- Critical Trends
- Quarterly Trends
- Spacecraft Motions
Configuration/Radiation Overview for February 2009
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ACIS
- ACIS DOSE registered-photon-map
The steps we took to compute the dose map are;
- Level 1 Event files for a specified month are obtained from archive.
- Image data including I2, I3, S2, S3 CCDs are extracted from all event files.
- All the extracted image data were merged to create a month long exposure map for the month.
- The exposure map is opened with ds9, and check a distribution of count rates against energy.
From this, estimate the upper threshold value. Any events beyond this upper threshold are
assumed erroneous events such as bad pixels.
- Using this upper threshold, the data is filtered, and create a cleaned exposure map for the month.
- The exposure map from each month from the Sep 1999 is added up to create a cumulative exposure
map for each month.
- Using fimgstatistic, we compute count rate statistics for each CCDs.
- For observations with high data drop rates (e.g., Crab nebula, Cas A), we corrected the
observations by adding events.
Note: Counts and RMS's of Cumulative maps are lower than the previous months. This is because we excluded
extreme outliers.
Please check more detail plots at Telemetered Photon Dose Trend page.
- FEB registered-photon-map in fits
Statistics:
# IMAGE NPIX MEAN RMS MIN MAX
ACIS_feb09 6004901 8.300 12.72 0.0 665.0
I2 node 0 262654 9.628666 3.857325 0.0 50.0
I2 node 1 262654 10.361185 4.408091 0.0 265.0
I2 node 2 262654 10.181511 3.962278 0.0 57.0
I2 node 3 262654 9.975927 4.164862 0.0 94.0
I3 node 0 262654 10.416062 3.966410 0.0 53.0
I3 node 1 262654 10.940823 10.846187 0.0 270.0
I3 node 2 262654 9.846904 3.801582 0.0 86.0
I3 node 3 262654 9.832130 3.902414 0.0 173.0
S2 node 0 262654 9.866192 3.846989 0.0 303.0
S2 node 1 262654 10.212547 4.324828 0.0 73.0
S2 node 2 262654 11.005396 4.038586 0.0 96.0
S2 node 3 262654 11.191559 3.887319 0.0 586.0
S3 node 0 262654 13.494167 10.506552 0.0 140.0
S3 node 1 262654 12.550160 4.473683 0.0 71.0
S3 node 2 262654 12.406480 3.872232 0.0 44.0
S3 node 3 262654 10.700070 3.539288 0.0 49.0
- Jul 1999 - Feb 2009 registered-photon-map in fits
Statistics:
IMAGE NPIX MEAN RMS MIN MAX
ACIS_total 6004901 1228.14 1678.06 0.0 74872.0
I2 node 0 262654 10.940823 10.846187 0.0 270.0
I2 node 1 262654 1007.576424 234.761550 0.0 16380.0
I2 node 2 262654 1021.839294 197.450252 0.0 8410.0
I2 node 3 262654 1022.809838 250.631606 0.0 27267.0
I3 node 0 262654 1076.000663 259.579186 0.0 5634.0
I3 node 1 262654 1117.514000 809.653702 0.0 21453.0
I3 node 2 262654 994.123330 170.258379 0.0 4313.0
I3 node 3 262654 982.242851 182.844031 0.0 18167.0
S2 node 0 262654 1471.917777 193.495955 721.0 19811.0
S2 node 1 262654 1560.987819 322.525054 753.0 8152.0
S2 node 2 262654 1740.582242 329.549160 977.0 11556.0
S2 node 3 262654 1680.377881 245.576528 964.0 22672.0
S3 node 0 262654 2579.407541 1299.956287 1049.0 10994.0
S3 node 1 262654 3788.425825 1792.127755 0.0 11888.0
S3 node 2 262654 2789.537404 818.380245 932.0 6315.0
S3 node 3 262654 2106.608668 347.295265 1105.0 8277.0
- FEB 2009 dose PNG image
- FEB I3 dose PNG image
- FEB S3 dose PNG image
- TOTAL JUL 1999 - FEB 2009 dose PNG image
- TOTAL I3 dose PNG image
- TOTAL S3 dose PNG image
Integrated Exposure Maps of Last 12 Months
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Feb 2008 |
The Mean Detrended CTI
We report CTIs with a refined data definition. CTIs were computed for the temperature
dependency corrected data.
Please see
CTI page
for detailed explanation.
CTI's are computed for Mn K alpha, and defined as slope/intercept x10^4 of row # vs ADU.
Data file here
Focal Plane Temperature
The Mean (max) FPT: -112.86 C std dev: 4.89
mean width: 0.22 days std dev: 0.12
We are using 10 period moving averages to show
trends of peak temperatures and peak widths.
Note, the gaps in the width plot are due to missing/corrupted data.
The following is a plot of focal plane temperature and sun angle, earth angle, and altitude.
Bad Pixels
The plots below were generated with a new warm pixel finding script. Please see
Acis Bad Pixel Page
for details.
Front Side CCDs
Back Side CCD (CCD5)
Acis Count Rate Plot
This monitors the ACIS count Rate vs. EPHIN count Rate.
No sources or CTI observations are removed. For daily updates see:
Ephin/Acis Info

Science instrument background rates
This page shows scientific instrument background data based on Acis
observations. A source region file is generated using get_srcregions
and then the input event file is filtered using the regions in that file
to remove the sources.
Name | Low (keV) | High(KeV) | Description |
SSoft | 0.00 | 0.50 | Super soft photons |
Soft | 0.50 | 1.00 | Soft photons |
Med | 1.00 | 3.00 | Moderate energy photons |
Hard | 3.00 | 5.00 | Hard Photons |
Harder | 5.00 | 10.00 | Very Hard photons |
Hardest | 10.00 | | Beyond 10 keV |

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HRC
Gratings
- Focus
We plot the width of the zero order streak of ACIS/HETG observations and
the width of the zero order image for HRC/LETG observations of point sources.
No significant defocusing trend is seen at this time. See
Gratings Focus
pages.

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Radiation Zone Timing
Plotted below are radiation zone timing plots based on the following definitions of radiation zone:
RADZONE - Ephin levels (in any of the E1300,P4GM,P41GM channels) are more than 1/3 of RADMON safing thresholds.
RADMON - Radmon is disabled for radiation zone (as commanded based on OFLS model, for comparison with actual radiation levels).
PERIGEE - Time of closest earth approach (for comparison).
Feb 2009 Timing Plots
Entire Mission Timing Plots
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Critical Trends
Quarterly Trends
MUPS
Previous Quarter |
MSID | MEAN | RMS | DELTA/YR | DELTA/YR/YR | UNITS | DESCRIPTION |
PM1THV1T |
329.54 |
6.95 |
7.864e+00 |
-2.183e+02 |
K |
MUPS 1 THRUSTER VALVE 01 TEMP |
PM1THV2T |
331.29 |
5.65 |
6.489e+00 |
-2.232e+02 |
K |
MUPS 1 THRUSTER VALVE 02 TEMP |
PM2THV1T |
327.30 |
9.63 |
5.454e+00 |
-3.054e+02 |
K |
MUPS 2 THRUSTER VALVE 01 TEMP |
PM2THV2T |
328.28 |
8.38 |
5.232e+00 |
-2.372e+02 |
K |
MUPS 2 THRUSTER VALVE 02 TEMP |
SC Main Temperatures
Previous Quarter |
MSID | MEAN | RMS | DELTA/YR | DELTA/YR/YR | UNITS | DESCRIPTION |
TCYLAFT1 |
295.03 |
3.55 |
-1.440e+01 |
4.383e+02 |
K |
CNT CYL TEMP:16-IN FWD OF SC-TS FIT-1 |
TCYLAFT2 |
276.63 |
1.96 |
-7.228e+00 |
1.773e+02 |
K |
CNT CYL TEMP:16-IN FWD OF SC-TS FIT-2 |
TCYLAFT3 |
264.01 |
1.61 |
-3.785e+00 |
7.313e+01 |
K |
CNT CYL TEMP:16-IN FWD OF SC-TS FIT-3 |
TCYLAFT4 |
267.52 |
2.04 |
-6.176e+00 |
1.324e+02 |
K |
CNT CYL TEMP:16-IN FWD OF SC-TS FIT-4 |
TCYLAFT5 |
280.16 |
3.23 |
-1.369e+01 |
3.221e+02 |
K |
CNT CYL TEMP:16-IN FWD OF SC-TS FIT-5 |
TCYLAFT6 |
294.75 |
3.90 |
-1.615e+01 |
4.562e+02 |
K |
CNT CYL TEMP:16-IN FWD OF SC-TS FIT-6 |
SC Ancillary Temperatures
Previous Quarter |
MSID | MEAN | RMS | DELTA/YR | DELTA/YR/YR | UNITS | DESCRIPTION |
TFSSBKT1 |
325.92 |
19.20 |
-2.488e+01 |
1.179e+03 |
K |
FSS BRACKET-1 TEMP (+Y) |
TFSSBKT2 |
319.55 |
25.68 |
-3.159e+01 |
1.576e+03 |
K |
FSS BRACKET-2 TEMP (+Y) |
TRSPMTPC |
289.29 |
5.02 |
-1.997e+01 |
5.385e+02 |
K |
RAD SHR PNL TEMP:TTWN MUPS AND PCAD |
TSCTSF1 |
292.59 |
2.40 |
-8.601e+00 |
2.424e+02 |
K |
SC-TS FITTING -1 TEMP |
HRMA Struts
Previous Quarter |
MSID | MEAN | RMS | DELTA/YR | DELTA/YR/YR | UNITS | DESCRIPTION |
4RT585T |
289.86 |
0.22 |
-7.127e-01 |
2.287e+01 |
K |
RT 585 - STRUT TEMP |
4RT590T |
289.43 |
0.96 |
-2.897e+00 |
9.426e+01 |
K |
RT 590 - STRUT TEMP |
Spacecraft Motions
Reaction Wheel Rotations
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