M&TA December 2014 Monthly Report

Science Run Interruptions

The observations were interrupted due to high radiation on Dec 21, 11:52pm (EST) and again on Dec 23, 6:33am (EST). The total science loss combined was 126.7 ks. Radiation Count Rate Plots for Periods Which Interrupted Science Runs).

(only Dec 22 interruption is shown.)

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

Please check more detail plots at Telemetered Photon Dose Trend page.

Dec registered-photon-map in fits

Dec Dose Map

TOTAL

CCD I3

CCD S3

Statistics:
# IMAGE     NPIX     MEAN        RMS        MIN     MAX
ACIS_dec14 6004901   6.526       8.959      0.0     2029


I2 node 0  262654   6.650918    3.084143    0.0     34.0
I2 node 1  262654   6.980629    3.374348    0.0    149.0
I2 node 2  262654   6.764765    3.063488    0.0     48.0
I2 node 3  262654   6.855912    6.515018    0.0   2029.0

I3 node 0  262654   7.341841    3.399907    0.0    273.0
I3 node 1  262654   7.529652    6.674622    0.0    146.0
I3 node 2  262654   6.808495    3.019465    0.0     64.0
I3 node 3  262654   7.017077    3.135246    0.0     93.0

S2 node 0  262654   8.160202    3.390117    0.0     80.0
S2 node 1  262654   8.279311    3.820287    0.0     72.0
S2 node 2  262654   8.483360    6.627588    0.0   1500.0
S2 node 3  262654   8.197266    3.512990    0.0    427.0

S3 node 0  262654   11.236837   5.351217    0.0    114.0
S3 node 1  262654   12.740682   4.840870    0.0     94.0
S3 node 2  262654   12.178198   3.998202    0.0     53.0
S3 node 3  262654   11.047378   3.704210    0.0     36.0

Jul 1999 - Dec 2014 registered-photon-map in fits

Cumulative Dose Map

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CCD I3

CCD S3


Statistics:
 IMAGE     NPIX      MEAN        RMS        MIN      MAX
ACIS_total 6004901   1849.039    2427.208   0.0     107167


I2 node 0  262654   1551.484757 296.951575   286.0   9068.0
I2 node 1  262654   1635.848170 410.016048   321.0  37313.0
I2 node 2  262654   1665.832005 348.372549   324.0   9187.0
I2 node 3  262654   1663.753308 419.086904   307.0  28002.0

I3 node 0  262654   1747.716161 416.017356   306.0   6869.0
I3 node 1  262654   1834.777875 1389.873352  312.0  35185.0
I3 node 2  262654   1603.410341 287.565322   297.0   8177.0
I3 node 3  262654   1589.067771 308.024704   282.0  27061.0

S2 node 0  262654   2164.945328 315.261695  1141.0  21197.0
S2 node 1  262654   2303.947876 504.204546  1199.0  12751.0
S2 node 2  262654   2538.746745 482.058943  1520.0  19181.0
S2 node 3  262654   2461.013538 341.969991  1421.0  41836.0

S3 node 0  262654   3847.679075 1793.316121 1569.0  13535.0
S3 node 1  262654   5021.525070 2077.902323    0.0  14020.0
S3 node 2  262654   3829.176559 985.755099  1566.0   9332.0
S3 node 3  262654   2968.428712 451.048253  1694.0  10321.0

Integrated Exposure Maps of Last 12 Months

Sep 2014	Jun 2014	Mar 2014	Dec 0213

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

Imaging CCDs

Spectral CCDs

Backside CCDs

Focal Plane Temperature

Dec 2014 Focal Temperature

The Mean (max) FPT:
-109.24	+/- 7.39 C
Mean Width:
0.98	+/- 1.09 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.

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HRC

DOSE of Central 4K Pore-Pairs

Please refer to Maximum Dose Trends for more details.

Dec HRC-I Dose in fits

  
         IMAGE                NPIX      MEAN    STDDEV      MIN       MAX  
 HRCI_12_2014.fits          16777216   0.005    0.0771      0.0       7.0

AUG 1999 - DEC 2014 HRC-I Dose in fits

        IMAGE                NPIX      MEAN    STDDEV      MIN       MAX
HRCI_08_1999_12_2014.fits  16777216   4.304    4.895       0.0       292.0

Oct HRC-S dose fits image - no observations

Dec HRC-S Dose

    
          IMAGE                NPIX      MEAN    STDDEV      MIN       MAX      
HRCS_12_2014.fits          16777216     0.030    0.1851     0.0        9.0

AUG 1999 - DEC 2014 HRC-S Dose in fits

        IMAGE                NPIX     MEAN      STDDEV      MIN      MAX
HRCS_08_1999_12_2014.fits  16777216  15.588     27.267      0.0      1681.0

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

Sep 2014	Jun 2014	Mar 2014	Dec 2013

HRC S: Integrated Exposure Maps of Last 12 Months

Sep 2014	Jun 2014	Mar 2014	Dec 2013

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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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PCAD

ACA Trending

ACA Trending - Entire Period

ACA Trending - DEC 2014

Fid Light Drift

Fid light positions on ACA drift with time. The drift trends of Fid light 2 with ACIS-I and ACIS-S configurations are shown below.

The top panel shows Fid light 2 drift in ACENT I (app. along with -Y axis), and the bottom panel shows that in ACENT J (app. along with Z axis). The unit is a pixel, and one pixel is approximately 0.5 arcsec. The slope listed at the top right corner is the change in a position per year (arcsec/yr). The vertical line on DOM = 1411 (Jun 1, 2003) indicates a transition date of use of IRU-1 to IRU-2.
See also Tom Aldcroft's updated page: https://cxc.cfa.harvard.edu/mta/ASPECT/fid_drift

Fid 2 (ACIS-I)

Fid 2 (ACIS-S)

Fid 8 (HRC-I)

Fid 12 (HRC-S)

Gyro Bias Drift

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Radiation History

Radiation Zone Timing

Entire Mission Timing Plots

Sun Spot History

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Critical Trends

ACIS Temperatures - Daily Maximums
MSID	MEAN	RMS	DELTA/YR	DELTA/YR/YR	UNITS	DESCRIPTION
1PDEAAT	304.92	8.78	-3.089e-01	3.264e+00	K	PSMC DEA PS A TEMP
1PIN1AT	291.78	7.86	-1.034e-01	2.775e+00	K	PSMC TEMP 1A

HRMA Computed Averages - Daily Maximums
MSID	MEAN	RMS	DELTA/YR	DELTA/YR/YR	UNITS	DESCRIPTION
OBAAVG	291.47	1.78	-4.586e+00	-5.868e+01	TEMP	OBA/TFTE

EPHIN Temperatures - Daily Maximums
MSID	MEAN	RMS	DELTA/YR	DELTA/YR/YR	UNITS	DESCRIPTION
TEIO	329.19	20.85	6.859e+00	-9.822e+00	K	EPHIN ELECTRONICS HOUSING TEMP
TEPHIN	334.09	6.72	3.888e+00	-3.198e+01	K	EPHIN SENSOR HOUSING TEMP

S/C Main Temperatures - Daily Maximums
MSID	MEAN	RMS	DELTA/YR	DELTA/YR/YR	UNITS	DESCRIPTION
TCYLFMZM	306.24	25.91	2.143e+00	2.840e+00	K	CNT CYL TEMP:-Z SIDE UNDER LAE-1
TCYLFMZP	308.42	24.75	2.145e+00	2.966e+00	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	345.92	17.04	4.986e-01	-3.728e+01	K	FSS BRACKET-1 TEMP (+Y)
TFSSBKT2	340.90	24.18	3.892e+00	-6.609e+01	K	FSS BRACKET-2 TEMP (+Y)
TSCTSF1	302.70	3.24	2.501e+00	-1.019e+01	K	SC-TS FITTING -1 TEMP
TSCTSF6	304.79	3.63	2.945e+00	-1.370e+01	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	317.64	11.13	3.347e+00	5.826e+00	K	PROP LINE TEMP 02
PLINE03T	316.64	13.64	3.278e+00	7.846e+00	K	PROP LINE TEMP 03
PLINE04T	302.24	12.73	3.233e+00	7.055e+00	K	PROP LINE TEMP 04

Quarterly Trends

Spacecraft Main Temperature

Previous Quarter
MSID	MEAN	RMS	DELTA/YR	DELTA/YR/YR	UNITS	DESCRIPTION
TASPPCM	292.36	3.51	1.357e+00	1.847e+02	K	AFT SHEAR PANEL TEMP:-Z PCAD COMP
TCYLAFT1	305.81	3.84	2.428e+00	2.223e+02	K	CNT CYL TEMP:16-IN FWD OF SC-TS FIT-1
TCYLAFT2	280.46	1.87	3.745e+00	9.440e+01	K	CNT CYL TEMP:16-IN FWD OF SC-TS FIT-2
TPZLGABM	210.90	1.23	-1.055e+00	-7.339e+00	K	+Z LOW-GAIN ANTENNA BOOM TEMP
TSAMYT	321.13	0.96	1.216e+01	-5.127e+01	K	-Y WING SOLAR ARRAY TEMP
TSAPYT	320.91	0.96	1.235e+01	-3.957e+01	K	+Y WING SOLAR ARRAY TEMP

Spacecraft Anc. Temperature

Previous Quarter
MSID	MEAN	RMS	DELTA/YR	DELTA/YR/YR	UNITS	DESCRIPTION
TSCTSF1	303.47	3.38	1.015e+00	9.105e+01	K	SC-TS FITTING -1 TEMP
TSCTSF2	279.31	1.62	3.130e+00	7.288e+01	K	SC-TS FITTING -2 TEMP
TSCTSF3	265.06	1.27	3.610e+00	2.521e+01	K	SC-TS FITTING -3 TEMP
TSCTSF4	268.89	1.45	2.935e+00	4.175e+01	K	SC-TS FITTING -4 TEMP
TSCTSF5	285.01	2.31	7.297e-01	9.070e+01	K	SC-TS FITTING -5 TEMP
TSCTSF6	305.71	3.94	-1.610e+00	1.111e+01	K	SC-TS FITTING -6 TEMP

Envelope Trending

OBA Forward Bulkhead

PCAD FTS Grad

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Spacecraft Motions

TSC and FA Cummulative Moter Distance

HETG and LETG Cummulative Insertion Counts

HETG/LETG Insertion/Retraction Angle

Reaction Wheel Rotations

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December 2014

OUTLINE

Configuration/Radiation Overview for Dec 2014