MTA Monitoring Report 03/28/03 - 04/03/03

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Radiation

Quiet

Detrended CTI

CTI analysis is now computed with "detrending":
Detrend CTI = Measured CTI + S3 amplitude reject rate * Detrend factor.

Average of ACIS-I CCDs (MnKa) slope 8.633e-9 CTI/day
Detrended slope 8.863e-9 CTI/day

ACIS Warm Pixels



ACIS Focal Plane Temperature

For this period, 4 peaks are observed.

SIM Movements

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

Telemetry

IRUs

A real-time procedure was completed on Mar 30 to perform a manual unload of momentum using thrusters A-1 (100%), A-2 and A-3. The unload duration was longer than expected for nominal thruster performance and consistent with prior anomalous unloads. A software patch was uplinked to allow collection of high sample rate telemetry of the bus current, and the data are under analysis.

The Gyro-1 current in the Inertial Reference Unit (IRU-1) was observed above its yellow limit level (150 mA) during a pass on April 3. The level remained high on the subsequent pass and engineering assessment by the design engineers and vendor is underway.

Recent Observations

"Prob" means that there was probably bad time data included in the manual runs. This will be corrected in future processing.

OBSID DETECTOR GRATING TARGET ANALYSIS ACA
3598-3657
4219-4281
ACIS-I NONE NOAO FIELD OK OK
4432 ACIS-S LETG H2650 TOO /Grat OK

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