M&TA September 2012 Monthly Report

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

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.

Sep registered-photon-map in fits

Sep Dose Map

TOTAL

CCD I3

CCD S3

Statistics:
# IMAGE     NPIX        MEAN           RMS              MIN     MAX
ACIS_sep12 6004901       8.114         13.257           0.0     8590


I2 node 0  262654   5.304443    2.775689    0.0  50.0
I2 node 1  262654   5.639850    3.608199    0.0 159.0
I2 node 2  262654   5.344727    2.703836    0.0  43.0
I2 node 3  262654   5.433850    3.016145    0.0  63.0

I3 node 0  262654   5.514571    2.840189    0.0  31.0
I3 node 1  262654   5.641857    5.162103    0.0 407.0
I3 node 2  262654   5.278382    2.593877    0.0  50.0
I3 node 3  262654   5.313610    7.863614    0.0 3785.0

S2 node 0  262654   12.695764   16.773178   0.0 6019.0
S2 node 1  262654   14.952225   6.179953    0.0  81.0
S2 node 2  262654   15.114043   17.292985   0.0 4744.0
S2 node 3  262654   11.435025   4.573731    0.0 864.0

S3 node 0  262654   19.385241   22.973695   0.0 450.0
S3 node 1  262654   15.163850   7.625363    0.0 103.0
S3 node 2  262654   14.429366   4.623318    0.0  51.0
S3 node 3  262654   17.444674   7.232305    1.0  57.0

Jul 1999 - Sep 2012 registered-photon-map in fits

Cumulative Dose Map

TOTAL

CCD I3

CCD S3


Statistics:
 IMAGE        NPIX      MEAN             RMS            MIN    MAX
ACIS_total   6004901    1655.687         2189.913       0.0    97690


I2 node 0  262654   1375.346012 269.800182  0.0     7101.0
I2 node 1  262654   1446.639567 360.565229  0.0     31405.0
I2 node 2  262654   1477.048779 318.354768  0.0     6413.0
I2 node 3  262654   1472.016671 372.664475  0.0     6886.0

I3 node 0  262654   1546.424464 379.150195  0.0     6111.0
I3 node 1  262654   1624.186649 1228.497800 0.0     31459.0
I3 node 2  262654   1413.818073 260.815714  0.0     6810.0
I3 node 3  262654   1399.010086 277.450116  0.0     24684.0

S2 node 0  262654   2001.258035 304.463135  1040.0  28530.0
S2 node 1  262654   2137.244371 468.609651  1089.0  11732.0
S2 node 2  262654   2370.311271 468.853090  1425.0  41900.0
S2 node 3  262654   2304.101172 360.257676  1361.0  37332.0

S3 node 0  262654   3449.154002 1659.543929 1441.0  12627.0
S3 node 1  262654   4560.150148 1883.814852 0.0     12911.0
S3 node 2  262654   3514.827313 903.413578  1367.0  8857.0
S3 node 3  262654   2746.516869 445.530058  1561.0  9029.0

Integrated Exposure Maps of Last 12 Months

Jun 2012	Mar 2012	Dec 2011	Sep 2011

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

Sep 2012 Focal Temperature

The Mean (max) FPT:
-113.58	+/- 3.38 C
Mean Width:
0.46	+/- 0.50 days

Averaged Focal Plane Temperature

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.

Focal Plane Temperature, Sun 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)

Science Instrument Background Rates

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

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.

ACIS Rejected Events

The links below are plots of stat1 quantities, showing on-board rejected events. The average EVTSENT, DROP_AMP, DROP_POS, DROP_GRD, THR_PIX, and maximum BERR_SUM obtained from L1 acis*stat1.fits files are plotted for each observation. CTI observations are plotted separately from regular science observations.

Column definitions:

EVTSENT - number of events sent in data record
DROP_AMP - number of discarded events due to corrected amplitude
DROP_POS - number of discarded events due to CCD position
DROP_GRD - number of discarded events due to grade code
THR_PIX - number of pixels above respective threshold level
BERR_SUM - number of pixel bias errors so far in science run

Note the half-life decline of the CTI source is clearly evidenced in the steady janline of EVTSENT.

CCD3 CTI Observations

CCD3 Science Observations

CCD7 CTI Observations

CCD7 Science Observations

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HRC

DOSE of Central 4K Pore-Pairs

Please refer to Maximum Dose Trends for more details.

SEP HRC-I Dose in fits

  
        IMAGE                NPIX      MEAN    STDDEV      MIN       MAX  
HRCI_09_2012.fits          16777216   0.017    0.1389      0.0       8.0

AUG 1999 - SEP 2012 HRC-I Dose in fits

        IMAGE                NPIX      MEAN    STDDEV      MIN       MAX
HRCI_08_1999_09_2012.fits  16777216   3.904    4.745       0.0       292.0

SEP HRC-S dose fits image - no observations

SEP HRC-S Dose

         IMAGE                NPIX      MEAN    STDDEV      MIN       MAX  
HRCS_09_2012.fits          16777216   0.030    0.181       0.0       11.0

AUG 1999 - SEP 2012 HRC-S Dose in fits

        IMAGE                NPIX     MEAN      STDDEV      MIN      MAX
HRCS_08_1999_09_2012.fits  16777216  14.205      23.897      0.0      1634.0

Max dose trend plots corrected for events that "pile-up" in the center of the taps due to bad position information.

HRC I: Integrated Exposure Maps of Last 12 Months

Jun 2012	Mar 2012	Dec 2011	Sep 2011

HRC S: Integrated Exposure Maps of Last 12 Months

Jun 2012	Mar 2012	Dec 2011	Sep 2011

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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)

Radiation Count Rates of Sep 2012

Sun Spot History

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Critical Trends

ACIS Temperatures - Daily Maximums
MSID	MEAN	RMS	DELTA/YR	DELTA/YR/YR	UNITS	DESCRIPTION
MSID	MEAN	RMS	DELTA/YR	DELTA/YR/YR	UNITS	DESCRIPTION
1PDEAAT	306.55	8.57	-7.167e-01	9.829e-01	K	PSMC DEA PS A TEMP
1PIN1AT	292.83	7.60	-4.930e-01	1.067e+00	K	PSMC TEMP 1A

HRMA Computed Averages - Daily Maximums
MSID	MEAN	RMS	DELTA/YR	DELTA/YR/YR	UNITS	DESCRIPTION
OBAAVG	285.13	1.36	3.445e-01	1.099e-01	K	OBA/TFTE TEMP

EPHIN Temperatures - Daily Maximums
MSID	MEAN	RMS	DELTA/YR	DELTA/YR/YR	UNITS	DESCRIPTION
TEIO	314.76	18.56	1.957e+00	1.962e+00	K	EPHIN ELECTRONICS HOUSING TEMP
TEPHIN	312.36	8.81	2.560e+00	1.754e-01	K	EPHIN SENSOR HOUSING TEMP

S/C Main Temperatures - Daily Maximums
MSID	MEAN	RMS	DELTA/YR	DELTA/YR/YR	UNITS	DESCRIPTION
TCYLFMZM	297.76	23.76	7.530e-01	-9.252e-01	K	CNT CYL TEMP:-Z SIDE UNDER LAE-1
300.37	22.64	6.894e-01	-8.677e-01	K	CNT CYL TEMP:-Z SIDE UNDER LAE-2

S/C Ancillary Temperatures - Daily Maximums
MSID	MEAN	RMS	DELTA/YR	DELTA/YR/YR	UNITS	DESCRIPTION
TFSSBKT1	328.20	19.55	1.300e+00	5.763e-01	K	FSS BRACKET-1 TEMP (+Y)
TFSSBKT2	323.55	24.79	8.058e-01	4.795e-01	K	FSS BRACKET-2 TEMP (+Y)
TSCTSF1	290.72	4.43	9.781e-01	-2.539e-03	K	SC-TS FITTING -1 TEMP
TSCTSF6	290.68	5.07	1.157e+00	8.263e-02	K	SC-TS FITTING -6 TEMP

MUPS - Daily Maximums
MSID	MEAN	RMS	DELTA/YR	DELTA/YR/YR	UNITS	DESCRIPTION
PM1THV1T	330.71	9.47	1.563e+00	-1.452e+00	K	MUPS 1 THRUSTER VALVE 01 TEMP
PLINE02T	310.63	11.21	1.735e+00	1.184e-01	K	PROP LINE TEMP 02
PLINE03T	311.43	11.70	1.180e+00	8.105e-01	K	PROP LINE TEMP 03
PLINE04T	299.00	10.56	4.942e-01	8.167e-01	K	PROP LINE TEMP 04

Quarterly Trends

SIM Temperature

Previous Quarter
MSID	MEAN	RMS	DELTA/YR	DELTA/YR/YR	UNITS	DESCRIPTION
3TSMXSPT	269.91	28.62	-1.059e+02	-4.861e-11	K	-X TURTLE SHELL NR ACIS SS
3TTHRC1T	268.38	14.39	7.155e+01	-1.496e-11	K	TT AT HRC BIPOD ATTACH #1
BOXTEMP	282.37	1.28	6.088e+00	1.367e-12	K	SEA box temperature
PSUTEMP	311.86	1.03	3.890e+00	-1.156e-12	(3FAPSAT)	SEA power supply temperature

OBA Heaters

Previous Quarter
MSID	MEAN	RMS	DELTA/YR	DELTA/YR/YR	UNITS	DESCRIPTION
OOBTHR03	288.60	0.66	6.208e+00	9.499e-02	K	RT 26: HRMA STRUT
OOBTHR08	290.49	1.33	1.106e+01	-2.976e+01	K	RT 31: OBA CONE
OOBTHR15	288.61	1.21	1.051e+01	-6.381e+00	K	RT 38: OBA CONE
OOBTHR22	288.83	1.73	1.458e+01	4.980e+01	K	RT 44: OBA CONE
OOBTHR52	292.60	1.88	1.662e+01	1.591e+01	K	RT 78: S/C STRUT

OBA Foward Bulkhead Temperature

Previous Quarter
MSID	MEAN	RMS	DELTA/YR	DELTA/YR/YR	UNITS	DESCRIPTION
4RT701T	289.85	1.09	8.817e+00	-3.860e+01	K	RT 701 - OB BULKHEAD TEMP
4RT704T	288.11	0.90	7.661e+00	-1.808e+01	K	RT 704 - OB BULKHEAD TEMP
4RT708T	288.06	0.96	8.210e+00	-5.609e+00	K	RT 708 - OB BULKHEAD TEMP
4RT711T	289.82	1.11	9.297e+00	-2.545e+01	K	RT 711 - OB BULKHEAD TEMP

Spacecraft Motions

Reaction Wheel Rotations

Note: From Feb 2010, the computation of reaction wheel rotations are slightly modified.

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Links to Past Monthly Reports

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