Chandra Science Operations Team

• See anomaly points of contact for additional contact info or email sot_lead.

REALTIME DATA

Chandra Snapshot:
Original	Maude: Realtime	Maude: ASVT
Backup: OCC/ASVT	Recent: No CGI	Chandra State of Health (SOH)

• ACIS:
  • Hardware
  • Software
• HRC:
  • Operational Status
• RADIATION:
  • ACE
  • CRM3
  • Chandra Radiation Environment Summary
  • Radiation Event Archive
  • More Radiation Information

ONLINE TOOLS

• Replan Central
• SOT Mirror Site
• DataSeeker
• Solar Ham
• MSIDs -- Pure text TDB (P008)

MONITORING & TRENDING

• The HRMA
  • HRMA FOCUS from extant L2 data
  
  
• The SIM
  • Monitoring
  • Trending
  • Motor Temperatures
  • SIM Memos:
    • Memo: SIM Twist
    • Memo: Fid Light Drift
    
    
  • PCAD
    • Aspect Operations Page
    • IRU BIAS monitor
    • Memo: FID light drift
    • Memo: FSS Performance Testing
    
    
  • The Gratings Much of this is monitored by the HETG team
    • Observation Monitoring and Trending
    • Energy Resolution Trends
    • HETG Energy Resolution Status from MIT
    • Grating Motion Monitoring and Trending
    • Streak Focus Trends:
    • Energy Resolution Memos:
      • Memo: E/dE Energy Resolution Trend of Capella
      • Memo: Energy Resolution Trends with All Data
      • Memo: Energy Resolution and OBA/HRMA Temperature
    
    
  • HRC
    • UV/Ion Shield (PHA and Gain) New 11 April 2017
    • HRC PHA Evolution (QE and Gain Variation with Time) New 11 April 2017
    • HZ 43 Scaled SumAmp and PI Trends In progress 11 April 2017
    • Maximum Dose on HRC and ACIS
    
    
  • ACIS
    • ACIS Focal plane temperature
    • ACIS Science Run Reports
    • ACIS new bad pixels
    • ACIS Corner Pixels Trends
    • ACIS Bias Trends
    • ACIS Rejected Events Trends
    • ACIS Instrument background
    • ACIS histogram monitoring
    • ACIS gain monitoring
    • Maximum Dose on HRC and ACIS
    • ACIS RADIATION MONITORING
      • Detailed CTI Measurements
      • Raw CTI Measurements
      • ACIS event rates
    • ACIS Memos:
      • Memo: CTI Summary Status as of April 2017
    
    
  • End To End
    • Grating Motion and Gyro Drift Rate Monitoring
    • Time evolution of Solar Panel/Electric Power/Fine Sensor and Solar Angles
    • STATE TRANSITIONS
      Graphical history of state transitions
      • Tab delimited history of state changes (brief: this year only)
      • Tab delimited history of state changes (comprehensive: this year only)
    • Study of Heating V Pitch In preparation for raising EPHIN limits.
    • Predictive Long Term Trending
    • Memos:
      • Memo: Live ISIM Study Debugging 11 April 17
    
    SOT Problem Tracking
    • CTI (Links to ACIS/CAL CTI page)
      
    • RADMON trigger levels
    • Chandra SOT Cron Job List
    • Chandra SOT Alerts When, and to whom, do we send alerts.
    • MTA Disk Space Usage

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  Other informational web pages (some are access restricted)

  • SOT Shift reports
  • ACIS Operations
  • Chandra Uplink Support (USINT).
  • The Current FOT mission plan.
  • The MP Graphical Timelines.
  • The Long Term schedule .
  • Observing efficiency.
  • Comm passes
  • Anomaly points of contact.
  • Guidelines for Posting Material on the CXC Public Web Pages

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  CXCDS OPS - Internal server only

  • DSops Quick-Look
  • V&V status
  • CXCDSops Processing Status
  • CXCDSops Special Processing Status
  • CXCDSops Special Processing Request
  • SDS Duty Scientist Home page
  • HELM (operators): 496-7288, 496-7003
  • SDS Duty Scientist: Email dutysci@cfa

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  REALTIME DATA BACKUP SITES

  • The Backup CXC server
  • The Backup CXC server (occ disks)
  • Chandra Snapshot
  • State of Chandra(SOH)
  • ACIS
  • ACE data     NOAA plot

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  Email problems to: swolk@cfa.harvard.edu (Scott Wolk)
  or william.aaron@cfa.harvard.edu (William Aaron)
  ...it is all his fault
  Updated 25-Apr-2023