MTA Monitoring Report 11/30/01 - 12/06/01

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Radiation

There were no radiation violation this week. However, due to an apparent anomaly in the OBC'S EPHIN hardware failure flag, our onboard radiation protection software inadvertently tripped at about 336:02:15 GMT (9:15 pm on Saturday night) as we emerged from perigee. EPHIN appears to be working normally and properly, and the EIO unit is properly incrementing counters and putting data into telemetry. Observations restarted 338:16:55:40.875 (Tuesday, 11:55 a.m.EST).

ACIS/Radiation Environment correlations

CTI Trend

Average of ACIS-I CCDs (MnKa) slope 1.308e-8 CTI/day
Detrended slope 1.238e-8 CTI/day

ACIS Warm Pixels

The following pixels consistently showed a bias level more than 5 sigma away the chip's mean level during this period.
We suspect some of the recurring bad pixels may be due to biases which are taken just after perigee, when the focal plane is somewhat warm. For more information see the link above and MTA monthly reports.

ACIS Focal Temperature

For this period, no peaks were observed. Focal plane stayed cold the entire orbit.

SIM Movements

11 TSC moves this period
weekly average time/step 0.00139 s
mission average time/step 0.00137 s

Telemetry

11/30 12/1 12/2 12/3 12/4 12/5 12/6

Recent Observations


OBSID DETECTOR GRATING TARGET ANALYSIS ACA
2774 ACIS-S NONE RXJ0720.4-3125 OK OK
3177 ACIS-I LETG PKS2155-304 OK /NOT AVL 3177
3167 ACIS-S HETG PKS2155-304 OK /OK OK
3176 ACIS-I LETG PKS2155-304 OK /NOT AVL OK
3168 ACIS-S LETG PKS2155-304 OK /Ok OK
3263 ACIS-I NONE MACSJ0047.3-0810 OK OK
3174 ACIS-I LETG PKS2155-304 OK /NOT AVL OK
3166 HRC-S LETG PKS2155-304 OK /Ok OK

Trending

This Week's focus PCAD.
Temperature in degrees K.
Voltage in volts.
Current in amps.

No significant changes since last reported on Sep 20.
The most interesting trends are indicated with "*".