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March 2025

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Configuration/Radiation Overview for March 2025

ACIS

ACIS DOSE Registered-Photon-Map

The steps we took to compute the dose map are;

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

  • March registered-photon-map in fits

  • March Dose Map


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    CCD I3


    CCD S3

    Statistics:
    # IMAGE     NPIX     MEAN        RMS        MIN     MAX
    ACIS_mar25 6004901       3.700         4.775           0.0      543
    
    
    I2 node 0  262654	2.256559	1.660506	0.0	 44.0
    I2 node 1  262654	2.876938	1.961622	0.0	 80.0
    I2 node 2  262654	2.888718	1.958292	0.0	 48.0
    I2 node 3  262654	2.815235	2.243227	0.0	171.0
    
    I3 node 0  262654	4.626747	3.463378	0.0	 52.0
    I3 node 1  262654	3.970688	2.393552	0.0	 82.0
    I3 node 2  262654	3.927678	2.159989	0.0	 43.0
    I3 node 3  262654	4.128027	6.202288	0.0	153.0
    
    S2 node 0  262654	4.792023	3.612800	0.0	543.0
    S2 node 1  262654	5.333995	4.034139	0.0	445.0
    S2 node 2  262654	5.771971	4.091934	0.0	375.0
    S2 node 3  262654	5.387200	5.207319	0.0	539.0
    
    S3 node 0  262654	7.039200	4.879249	0.0	156.0
    S3 node 1  262654	8.242207	4.572615	0.0	138.0
    S3 node 2  262654	8.568681	5.401316	0.0	161.0
    S3 node 3  262654	7.215231	5.203754	0.0	151.0
    
    
  • Jul 1999 - Mar 2025 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       2724.944         3446.511           0.0   168593
    
    
    I2 node 0  262654	2367.399523	480.661984	507.0	15677.0
    I2 node 1  262654	2496.239839	705.293128	518.0	166587.0
    I2 node 2  262654	2523.619989	535.730987	543.0	17305.0
    I2 node 3  262654	2527.804597	656.947291	502.0	36208.0
    
    I3 node 0  262654	2725.811190	675.464827	504.0	15206.0
    I3 node 1  262654	2807.289865	1755.811276	527.0	56057.0
    I3 node 2  262654	2515.849028	471.756310	493.0	15363.0
    I3 node 3  262654	2493.015889	508.943785	470.0	35984.0
    
    S2 node 0  262654	3179.299104	513.835896	1716.0	22625.0
    S2 node 1  262654	3377.305785	770.673186	1892.0	20255.0
    S2 node 2  262654	3744.739377	774.289312	2306.0	33577.0
    S2 node 3  262654	3701.333716	629.355294	2028.0	85816.0
    
    S3 node 0  262654	5628.129025	3026.831944	2472.0	55179.0
    S3 node 1  262654	6849.803914	2400.964578	0.0	83602.0
    S3 node 2  262654	5583.542502	1372.901773	2620.0	27638.0
    S3 node 3  262654	4391.672137	778.171533	2649.0	26733.0
    
    
  • Integrated Exposure Maps of Last 12 Months
  • Dec 2024 Sep 2024 Jun 2024 Mar 2024

    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

    Mar 2025 Focal Temperature

    The Mean (max) FPT:
    -107.53 +/- 7.69 C
    Mean Width:
    0.8 +/- 0.58 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
    Hardest10.00   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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    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:

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

    CCD3 Observations

    CTIScience

    CCD7 Observations

    CTIScience

    ACIS Gain Trends

    We computed ACIS gain and offset from ACIS event1 files used in CTI computation, following the step described by C. Grant ACIS gain @ -120C page.

    Instead computing gains and offsets from individual observations, we combined all data from each month and computed an monthly averaged gain and offset.

    The following plots show CCD3 and CCD5 gains and offset trends.

    CCD 3
     
    CCD 5

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    HRC

    DOSE of Central 4K Pore-Pairs

    Please refer to Maximum Dose Trends for more details.

  • Mar HRCI Dose in fits
  • IMAGE                NPIX      MEAN    STDDEV      MIN       MAX
    HRCI_03_2025.fits  16777216	0.086 	0.298 	0.000 	7.000 
    
  • AUG 1999 - Mar 2025 HRCI Dose in fits
  • IMAGE                       NPIX      MEAN    STDDEV      MIN       MAX
    HRCI_08_1999_03_2025.fits  16777216	na	na	na	na
    
  • Mar HRCS Dose in fits
  • IMAGE                NPIX      MEAN    STDDEV      MIN       MAX
    HRCS_03_2025.fits  16777216	0.031 	0.200 	0.000 	13.000 
    
  • AUG 1999 - Mar 2025 HRCS Dose in fits
  • IMAGE                       NPIX      MEAN    STDDEV      MIN       MAX
    HRCS_08_1999_03_2025.fits  16777216	na	na	na	na
    
    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 2024 Sep 2024 Jun 2024 Mar 2024
  • HRC S: Integrated Exposure Maps of Last 12 Months
  • Dec 2024 Sep 2024 Jun 2024 Mar 2024

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    Gratings

    Grating Trends/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 Trends pages.


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    PCAD

    ACA Trending

    ACA Trending - May 2020

    ACIS  
     
    HRCI
    HRCI

    Gyro Bias Drift


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    Radiation History

    Radiation Count Rates of Mar 2025


    Sun Spot History (See:NOAA Page)


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    Trending

    Critical Trends








    Quarterly Trends




    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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