M&TA March 2013 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.

Mar registered-photon-map in fits

Mar Dose Map

TOTAL

CCD I3

CCD S3

Statistics:
# IMAGE     NPIX        MEAN           RMS              MIN     MAX
ACIS_mar13 6004901       7.581         13.564           0.0     2138


I2 node 0  262654       8.687153        3.596960        0.0      57.0
I2 node 1  262654       9.062775        4.685098        0.0     1286.0
I2 node 2  262654       8.842312        3.594801        0.0      69.0
I2 node 3  262654       8.881673        3.801156        0.0     107.0

I3 node 0  262654       8.853372        3.723672        0.0      41.0
I3 node 1  262654       9.050568        8.008507        0.0     177.0
I3 node 2  262654       8.454904        3.458690        0.0      64.0
I3 node 3  262654       8.623425        3.978630        0.0     707.0

S2 node 0  262654       7.295098        3.187515        0.0      35.0
S2 node 1  262654       7.196152        3.417110        0.0      50.0
S2 node 2  262654       7.346147        3.395142        0.0     284.0
S2 node 3  262654       7.411819        3.242171        0.0     312.0

S3 node 0  262654       22.260103       36.077158       0.0     308.0
S3 node 1  262654       16.304093       18.185072       0.0     223.0
S3 node 2  262654       11.946894       3.959115        0.0     114.0
S3 node 3  262654       10.888959       3.736287        0.0      36.0

Jul 1999 - Mar 2013 registered-photon-map in fits

Cumulative Dose Map

TOTAL

CCD I3

CCD S3


Statistics:
 IMAGE        NPIX      MEAN             RMS            MIN    MAX
ACIS_total   6004901       1699.448         2245.517           0.0   100152


I2 node 0  262654       1421.745048     280.095948      0.0     8855.0
I2 node 1  262654       1495.056993     374.639857      0.0     32947.0
I2 node 2  262654       1524.763416     328.000369      0.0     6556.0
I2 node 3  262654       1520.011680     385.479437      0.0     9313.0

I3 node 0  262654       1596.649108     391.553822      0.0     6304.0
I3 node 1  262654       1675.950874     1271.582630     0.0     32486.0
I3 node 2  262654       1460.962995     270.073117      0.0     7135.0
I3 node 3  262654       1446.549858     287.434907      0.0     25320.0

S2 node 0  262654       2050.054082     312.950233      1069.0  28591.0
S2 node 1  262654       2186.859076     480.227818      1107.0  12065.0
S2 node 2  262654       2421.540659     475.682224      1453.0  42037.0
S2 node 3  262654       2355.022697     361.798981      1390.0  38582.0

S3 node 0  262654       3559.281315     1698.842917     1470.0  12721.0
S3 node 1  262654       4643.401934     1896.446431     0.0     12978.0
S3 node 2  262654       3586.806403     904.593944      1433.0  9014.0
S3 node 3  262654       2811.645600     445.587595      1600.0  9215.0

Integrated Exposure Maps of Last 12 Months

Dec 2012	Sep 2012	Jun 2012	Mar 2012

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

Mar 2013 Focal Temperature

The Mean (max) FPT:
-112.63	+/- 6.08 C
Mean Width:
0.57	+/- 0.44 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.

MAR HRC-I Dose in fits

  
        IMAGE                NPIX      MEAN    STDDEV      MIN       MAX  
HRCI_03_2013.fits          16777216   0.031    0.1776      0.0       7.0

AUG 1999 - MAR 2013 HRC-I Dose in fits

        IMAGE                NPIX      MEAN    STDDEV      MIN       MAX
HRCI_08_1999_03_2013.fits  16777216   3.967    4.773       0.0       292.0

 
         IMAGE                NPIX      MEAN    STDDEV      MIN       MAX   
HRCS_03_2013.fits          16777216   0.265    0.777       0.0        39.0

AUG 1999 - MAR 2013 HRC-S Dose in fits

        IMAGE                NPIX     MEAN      STDDEV      MIN      MAX
HRCS_08_1999_03_2013.fits  16777216  14.494      24.304      0.0      1636.0

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

Dec 2012	Sep 2012	Jun 2012	Mar 2012

HRC S: Integrated Exposure Maps of Last 12 Months

Dec 2012	Sep 2012	Jun 2012	Mar 2012

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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 Mar 2013

Sun Spot History

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Critical Trends

ACIS Temperatures - Daily Maximums
MSID	MEAN	RMS	DELTA/YR	DELTA/YR/YR	UNITS	DESCRIPTION
1PDEAAT	304.89	9.11	-5.123e-01	8.026e-01	K	PSMC DEA PS A TEMP
1PIN1AT	291.54	8.21	-2.774e-01	-1.639e-01	K	PSMC TEMP 1A

HRMA Computed Averages - Daily Maximums
MSID	MEAN	RMS	DELTA/YR	DELTA/YR/YR	UNITS	DESCRIPTION
OBAAVG	285.31	1.61	3.863e-01	1.485e-01	K	OBA/TFTE TEMP

EPHIN Temperatures - Daily Maximums
MSID	MEAN	RMS	DELTA/YR	DELTA/YR/YR	UNITS	DESCRIPTION
TEIO	323.63	20.48	8.800e+00	-2.982e+01	K	EPHIN ELECTRONICS HOUSING TEMP
TEPHIN	323.29	6.57	5.486e+00	8.084e-01	K	EPHIN SENSOR HOUSING TEMP

S/C Main Temperatures - Daily Maximums
MSID	MEAN	RMS	DELTA/YR	DELTA/YR/YR	UNITS	DESCRIPTION
TCYLFMZM	303.53	26.82	2.111e+00	2.261e+01	K	CNT CYL TEMP:-Z SIDE UNDER LAE-1
305.63	25.53	2.012e+00	2.159e+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	332.95	20.77	7.672e+00	-8.119e-01	K	FSS BRACKET-1 TEMP (+Y)
TFSSBKT2	325.79	28.97	1.043e+01	-1.593e+01	K	FSS BRACKET-2 TEMP (+Y)
TSCTSF1	295.55	3.87	1.638e+00	2.441e+00	K	SC-TS FITTING -1 TEMP
TSCTSF6	296.53	4.35	2.037e+00	2.593e+00	K	SC-TS FITTING -6 TEMP

MUPS - Daily Maximums
MSID	MEAN	RMS	DELTA/YR	DELTA/YR/YR	UNITS	DESCRIPTION
PM1THV1T	333.47	8.23	-2.762e-01	-1.892e+02	K	MUPS 1 THRUSTER VALVE 01 TEMP
PLINE02T	317.85	11.08	2.500e+00	2.397e+00	K	PROP LINE TEMP 02
PLINE03T	317.00	13.64	2.177e+00	4.003e+00	K	PROP LINE TEMP 03
PLINE04T	302.41	12.82	2.194e+00	1.423e+00	K	PROP LINE TEMP 04

Quarterly Trends

SIM Temperature

Previous Quarter
MSID	MEAN	RMS	DELTA/YR	DELTA/YR/YR	UNITS	DESCRIPTION
3TSMXSPT	267.54	31.41	-3.604e+00	-9.351e-13	K	-X TURTLE SHELL NR ACIS SS
BOXTEMP	282.44	1.54	-2.355e+00	2.070e-13	K	SEA box temperature (3FASEAAT)
FAMTRTEMP	272.31	2.89	-4.086e+00	-1.176e-12	K	FA motor temperature
PSUTEMP	311.34	1.24	-7.767e-01	1.543e-13	K	SEA power supply temperature (3FAPSAT)

Spacecraft Anc Temperature

Previous Quarter
MSID	MEAN	RMS	DELTA/YR	DELTA/YR/YR	UNITS	DESCRIPTION
TBOLTCUT	237.03	14.73	-5.360e+00	-8.506e+02	K	DOOR BOLT-CUTTER TEMP
TSCIUSF1	310.54	3.247e+01	-1.828e+01	-2.854e+03	K	SC-IUS FITTING-1 TEMP
TSCIUSF2	269.94	17.98	-2.108e+01	-1.697e+03	K	SC-IUS FITTING-2 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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March 2013

OUTLINE

Configuration/Radiation Overview for Mar 2013