SOT shift report 2003-02-19 L1308 Written at 2003:050:14:50 UTC = 09:50 am Feb-19-2003 EST End 11:00:00 AM EST SOT Lead: Ed Kellogg PLAN ---- OBSID 03770, RX J1914.4+2456 2003:050:08:11 ACIS-S NONE - TIMING THE ORBIT OF RX J1914.4+2456: GRAVITATIONAL RADIATION AND THE NATURE OF THE X-RAY EMISSION then OBSID 03763, NGC 6888 2003:050:18:22, ACIS-S NONE - HOT GAS IN THE CIRCUMSTELLAR BUBBLE NGC 6888 RADIATION SUMMARY ----------------- Solar soft proton flux is Low. (http://www.srl.caltech.edu/ACE/ASC/) Significant solar activity yesterday: Solar flare activity was very low. No C class flares were observed.(http://www.dxlc.com/solar/) CMEs reported for past two days: February 16-18: No obviously geoeffective CMEs observed. (http://www.dxlc.com/solar/, Jan Alvestad) Radiation Measurement Observed Observed/Limit --------------------- -------- -------------- ACE 2hr fluence 7.78E+05 1/463 (http://www.srl.caltech.edu/ACE/ASC/) GOES-8/P2 4-9 MeV protons `P4GM' 1.00E-01 1/950 (ftp://ftp2.sec.noaa.gov/pub/lists/pchan/G10pchan_5m.txt) GOES-8/P5 40-80 MeV protons `P41GM' 1.00E-02 1/78 (ftp://ftp2.sec.noaa.gov/pub/lists/pchan/G10pchan_5m.txt) *ACIS* Orbital fluence (since perigee) 2.11E+06 1/474 (http://asc.harvard.edu/mta/alerts/current.dat) EPHIN rates (cts/cm^2-s-sr) at last comm. OBSERVED RADMON limit, or value/limit ---------------------------------------- -------- ----------------------------- E1300 (electrons, 2.64-6.18 MeV): 0.0 10 P4GM (protons, 5-8.3 MeV): 0.0 300 P41GM (protons, 41-53 MeV): 0.0 8.47 (http://cxc.harvard.edu/cgi-gen/mta/Snap/snap.cgi?action=Latest) ACIS focal plane temperature -119.9 C, at 08:29 am EST (http://acis.mit.edu/asc/acisrt.html) REAL TIME OBSERVATIONS UTC OBSID ---------------------- --- ----- - Notes from 9 am meeting ------------------------ OPS: Passes 3 over the last 1 day(s) Dump status Current Data loss None Load is good -> 053:09:07 UTC CAPs - Next passes 050/2345-0145 DSS 66 051/0620-0820 DSS 66 051/1145-1345 DSS 16 MP: The FEB2403A load products will be out today, with an email review tomorrow. We need to reschedule one perigee attitute, and there are some Jupiter pointing issues. S/C The PSMC toggled and the translation motor went over 45 F. This was expected at these attitudes. No temperatures exceeded past highs. There have been some gyro bias variations over the past several days; also gyro bias current has been variable. These gyro results are not of concern, but are being watched carefully. GOT/IST: - DATA:- SOT: GOES x-ray flux: No significant x-ray activity today. MEETINGS -------- - Data ---- On colossus (/dsops/GOT/input), - Feb 19 01:26 2003_049_1344_049_2113_Dump_EM_84439.gz Evaluation of QL data --------------------- Target: SI SOT Eval. ------------------- ---------- ---------- NGC2992: obs3956_0 ACIS-S OK HS 1251+2636: obs3074_1 ACIS-S OK SGR 1900+14: obs3862_0 ACIS-S continuous clocking RX J1914.4+2456: obs4419_0 ACIS-S continuous clocking SNAPSHOT -------- UTC 2003:050:13:42:02 (Feb19) f_ACE 1.88e+02 F_CRM 5.19e+07 Kp 2.7 R km 93877A OBT 2003:050:13:28:43 CTUVCDU 943487 OBC s/w NRML FMT2_NORM CPEstat NORM OBT 162048523.00 ONLVCDU 943472 OBC Errs 0 OBSID 3770 EPState SUN SIM TTpos 75623 HETG Angle 79.46 PCADMODE NPNT RA 288.609 Bus V 29.93 SIM FApos -467 LETG Angle 77.96 PCONTROL NPNT Dec 24.920 Bus I 27.22 AOFSTAR GUID Roll 54.769 ACA Object FFFSSSSS Dither ENAB HRC-I HV ON ACA ImFunc TTTTTTTT Dith Yang -5.95 Yaw Rate 0.19 HRC-S HV OFF ACA CCD Temp -10.4 Dith Zang -3.32 Pitch Rate 0.06 OBSMode NEXT ACA Int Time 1.698 Roll Rate 0.12 Door OP UNAC AOACSTAT OK FSS SunBeta SUN Door CL UNAC FSS Alfa -0.03 Batt 1 SOC 100.00% Avg HRMA Temp 70.61 FSS Beta 33.60 Batt 2 SOC 100.00% ACIS Stat7-0 65 Avg OBA Temp 51.45 SA Resolv 56.14 Batt 3 SOC 100.00% Cold Rad -127.9 OBA Tavg Fault NFLT SA Sun Pres ILLM Warm Rad -82.0 OBA Trng Fault NFLT +Y SA Amps 13.14 RadMon ENAB HRMA power 45.40 SCS 128 ACT -Y SA Amps 13.72 EPHIN Geom LARG OBA power 75.90 SCS 129 ACT +Y SA Temp 115.85 E150 7.3 SCS 130 ACT -Y SA Temp 116.58 E300 0.1 Roll Mom. -15.606 SCS 107 INAC E1300 0.0 Pitch Mom. -14.648 UpL Cmd Acc 14209 EPH A-Leak 1.0200 P4GM 0.0 Yaw Mom. -5.356 Cmd Rej A 99 EPH B-Leak 0.5000 P41GM 0.0