MTA Monitoring Report 03/15/02 - 03/21/02

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Radiation

The following alerts were issued:

SCS 107 was manually run to stop the loads at about 2002:077:13:54 (Mar 18) UT.
Loads rebuilt to pick up at 2002:079:07:49.
Obsids affected: 3463 (partial), 2740, 3245, 2916, 2563, 3041
Lost science time: 101.7 ks

Radiation rates continue to be somewhat elevated.

ACIS/Radiation Environment correlations

CTI Trend

Average of ACIS-I CCDs (MnKa) slope 1.113e-8 CTI/day
Detrended slope 1.084e-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 Plane Temperature

For this period, 3 peaks were observed

SIM Movements

6 TSC moves this period
weekly average time/step 0.00136 s
mission average time/step 0.00137 s

Telemetry

03/15 03/16 03/17 03/18 03/18-03/19 03/20

IRUs


Recent Observations

All data reported below are based on manual processing. "Prob" means that there was probably bad time data included in the manual runs.

OBSID DETECTOR GRATING TARGET ANALYSIS ACA
3463 ACIS-S NONE RX J170930.2-263927 Partial/CC Prob
2750 ACIS-S HETG GRS 1758-258 OK /Grat OK
3231 ACIS-I NONE ABELL 2319 OK OK
3450 ACIS-I NONE A3376 OK OK
2787 ACIS-I NONE PSR J2229+6114 OK OK
3202 ACIS-I NONE A3376 OK Prob
2827 ACIS-I NONE G78.2+2.1 CLUMP-1 OK OK
3290 ACIS-I NONE ABELL 1942 AND CLUMP OK OK
2760 ACIS-S NONE SN2002BO OK Prob
2686 ACIS-S NONE NGC 4559 OK OK

Trending

This Week's focus HRMA Thermal

Trends last reported on Jan 03.

This is a Beta version of a new trending presentation which uses the MTA Databases. The databases currently contain values for the period July 2001 through March 2002. We are aware of several bugs which are being worked, so there is no need to report bugs, but comments on the new format are welcome to Scott or Brad.

Provided below are trending and limit predictions for various Chandra subsystems. For each msid the data are plotted and the mean, standard deviation, and first and second derivatives are calculated. Two plots are displayed for each msid. Plot 1 includes data points, a first degree fit line (first derivative), and a curve representing the data smoothed over a suitable period (10 or 30 days in most cases). Plot 2 shows the point-to-point slopes of the smoothed curve and a fit line (second derivative) to this data.