Internal ACIS Notes

ACIS CTI Correction Approaches
Catherine Grant, Leisa Townsley & the ACIS IPI Team (26 Apr 2001; revised 30 Apr 2001)

• Postscript
  
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Related Penn State Memos

• Townsley & Broos 2000, "The PSU CTI Corrector: New results for i3, -110C"
• Townsley & Broos 2001, "Modeling Charge Transfer Inefficiency in ACIS"
• Broos & Townsley 2001, "Notes on RMF Generation"

ACIS CTI Correction Report
Bautz, Ford, Grant, Kissel, LaMarr & Prigozhin (22 Mar 2001)
• Postscript (6.2 MB)
• Gzip'ed Postscript (1.8 MB)
• PDF (2.8 MB)

CXC CTI corrector spec version 4.8 (02 May 2003)

• ACIS CTI Analysis (-120 C)
• Gain monitoring
• Trailing pixel monitoring
• Detection efficiency monitoring
• Preliminary Analysis of Oct 2003 CTI change
• ACIS CTI Detrending Fits - Alternating Exposure Mode Data

ACIS Memo #165 ACIS Diagnostic Test OBSID List (updated bimonthly)

Recent ACIS memos (Postscript files):

PS 207 (01/30/07) CEG

Consequences of a future unprotected radiation belt transit by ACIS

PS 206 (05/24/04) MWB

Reverse annealing and ACIS CTI increase during bakeout

PS 205 (05/20/04) CEG

Reproducibility of soft-proton damage in laboratory irradiations of ACIS CCDs

PS 204 (06/13/03) CEG

Dependence of ACIS performance on small temperature changes

PS 203a (09/27/02) MWB

Preliminary results from a cold CCD irradiation experiment

PS 203 (07/12/02) MWB

Goals and preliminary plan for a cold CCD irradiation experiment

PS 202 (06/14/02) BL

Comparison of Timed Exposure and Continuous Clock Mode Lab Data

PS 201 (05/31/02) BL

Comparison of BI simulator to s3 HIREFS Data at -120C

PS 200 (04/19/02) CEG

Preliminary Sacrificial Charge Correction

PS 199P (updated 11/19/02) BL

Charge Injection Test on ACIS

PS 198 (04/03/02) CEG

Estimating the long time constant

PS 197 (03/20/02) CEG

Flight experience with bakeouts

PS 196 (01/15/02) BL

Stability of Averages of ACIS Bias Files DRAFT

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