MTA ACIS Corner Pixels

The links below show plots of average corner pixel centroid slope and mean for ACIS observations. Separate plots are shown for FAINT MODE (3X3) and VFAINT MODE (5X5) observations.

Metric is the centroid of a gaussian fit to the histogram of corner pixel PHA values of detected events.

Corner pixels are defined as:

FAINT VFAINT AFAINT
(3X3) event island  (5X5) event island (5X5) event island
(1,1)-----(1,3)
-----* -----
(3,1)-----(3,3)
 
(1,1)(1,2)(1,3)(1,4)(1,5)
(2,1)(2,2)-----(2,4)(2,5)
(3,1)-----* -----(3,5)
(4,1)(4,2)-----(4,4)(4,5)
(5,1)(5,2)(5,3)(5,4)(5,5)
 
-------------------------
-----(2,2)-----(2,4)-----
----------* ----------
-----(4,2)-----(4,4)-----
-------------------------


  ALL FAINT MODE VFAINT MODE AFAINT MODE Data
CCD 2 Faint
VFaint AFaint
CCD 3 Faint
VFaint AFaint
CCD 6 Faint
VFaint AFaint
CCD 7 Faint
VFaint AFaint

MTA ACIS Corner Pixels: Recent Observatons

Click to see a plot. Note that not all plots are created for the given obsid.

Obsid I2ahist I3ahist S2ahist S2ahist acp I2hist I3hist S2hist S3hist cp
28597 I2ahist I3ahist No Plot No Plot acp No Plot No Plot No Plot No Plot pc
30104 No Plot No Plot No Plot No Plot acp No Plot No Plot S2hist S3hist pc

Last Updated: Aug-06-2025

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