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| Mission/Instruments | Science Requirement Absolute Time | Timing System Design | Timing Calibration Status | In-orbit Timing - Calibration Targets | Reported Issues | Reference | |||||||||||
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| Requirement | Goal | GPS Receiver | Clock Stability | (Absolute Timing Precision) | |||||||||||||
RXTE/PCA  | |||||||||||||||||
| Chandra / ACIS | |||||||||||||||||
| Chandra / HRC | |||||||||||||||||
| XMM-Newton/EPIC-MOS | |||||||||||||||||
| XMM-Newtion/EPIC-PN | |||||||||||||||||
| INTEGRAL/SPI | |||||||||||||||||
| INTEGRAL/IBIS | |||||||||||||||||
| Swift/BAT | |||||||||||||||||
| Swift/XRT | |||||||||||||||||
Suzaku/XIS | No science requirement defined. | No | 1.9 x 10^-9 s/s | Not confirmed. | A0535+262, Her X-1, etc | N/A | Y.Terada et al 2008 (10.1093/pasj/60.sp1.S25) | ||||||||||
| Suzaku/HXD | 360±150 μsec (270±130 | μsec in condition) | Crab for coordinated PSR1509-58 | Timing shift by a failure in time stamp at the ground station during 2012-2014 (Shu Koyama, Fixed) | |||||||||||||
| NuSTAR/FPM | 0.1 ms | 0.1 ms | ~5ms offset using | ||||||||||||||
| Astrosat | |||||||||||||||||
| HXMT | |||||||||||||||||
| Hitomi/SXS, SXI, HXI, SGD | 350 μsec | 35 μsec | Yes | 0.01μsec(GPSR) | ~ 120-230 μsec | Crab (with radio) note: using out-of-time event for SXI | absolute timing accuracy is much larger than expected on ground (3 μsec) | Y.Terada et al 2018 (10.1117/1.JATIS.4.1.011206) | |||||||||
| NICER | |||||||||||||||||
| eROSITA | |||||||||||||||||
XRISM/Resolve  | 1 msec | none | Yes | same as Hitomi | (under discussion) | ||||||||||||
| XRISM/Xtend | 10 msec | none | Yes | (under discussion) | |||||||||||||
Mission completed.
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