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Here are relevant prior publications about ACIS and XIS instrument performance, on the ground and in orbit.

XIS Papers and Resources

XIS CTI Monitoring:

LaMarr, et al. 2008, Proc SPIE, 7011, 66
Front- and back-illuminated x-ray CCD performance in low- and
high-Earth orbit: performance trends of Suzaku XIS and Chandra ACIS
detectors
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2008SPIE.7011E..66L^{Image Removed}

Bev 2006 SPIE for 1st year of on-orbit monitoring, pre-CI

XIS CTI Correction:

Uchiyama, H., Ozawa, M., Matsumoto, H., et al. 2009, PASJ, 61, 9
New CTI Correction Method for the Spaced-Row Charge Injection of the
Suzaku X-Ray Imaging Spectrometer

Ozawa, M., Uchiyama, H., Matsumoto, H., et al. 2009, PASJ, 61, 1
Energy-Scale Calibration of the Suzaku X-Ray Imaging Spectrometer
Using the Checker Flag Charge Injection Technique in Orbit

XIS Charge Injection Performance:

Nakajima, H., Yamaguchi, H., Matsumoto, H., et al. 2008, PASJ, 60, 1
Performance of the Charge-Injection Capability of Suzaku XIS

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Uchiyama, H., Hyodo, Y., Yamaguchi, H., et al. 2007, SPIE, 6686
The onboard calibration for the spaced-row charge injection of the
Suzaku XIS

XIS Background:

Tawa, N., Hayashida, K., Nagai, M., et al. 2008, PASJ, 60, 11
Reproducibility of Non-X-Ray Background for the X-Ray Imaging
Spectrometer aboard Suzaku

XIS General Information, Ground and Orbital Calibration:

Hayashida, Torii, Namiki, et al. 2007, PTPS, 169, 316
Orbital Calibration of the XIS

Koyama, Tsunemi, Dotani, et al. 2007, PASJ, 59, 23
X-Ray Imaging Spectrometer (XIS) on Board Suzaku

Suzaku Technical Description
http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/suzaku/prop_tools/suzaku_td/suzaku_td.html

Suzaku XIS Pocket Guide
http://www.astro.isas.jaxa.jp/~tsujimot/pg_xis.pdf

XIS Celestial Calibration Sources:

Plucinsky, et al. 2008, Proc SPIE, 7011
The SMC SNR 1E0102.2-7219 as a Calibration Standard for X-ray
Astronomy in the 0.3-2.5 keV Bandpass
(arXiv:0807.2176)

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The new CXC Calibration has many good references and links to
presentations at Calibration Workshops. It's not officially
live yet, but can be found here:
http://asc.harvard.edu/cal/Acis/detailed_info_new.html^{Image Removed}

ACIS CTI monitoring:
(CTI, trailing charge, correcting CTI for bkg and temperature)

LaMarr, et al. 2008, Proc SPIE, 7011, 66
Front- and back-illuminated x-ray CCD performance in low- and
high-Earth orbit: performance trends of Suzaku XIS and Chandra ACIS
detectors
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2008SPIE.7011E..66L^{Image Removed}

Grant, et al. 2005, Proc. SPIE, 6276
'Long-term trends in radiation damage of Chandra X-ray CCDs'
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2005SPIE.5898..201G^{Image Removed}
(The poster outside CEG's office updates some of this.)

The continually updated monitoring web pages:
http://space.mit.edu.ezproxyberklee.flo.org/~cgrant/monitor.html^{Image Removed}

ACIS CTI Correction:

The PSU CTI correction algorithm (short version):
Townsley, et al. 2000, ApJ, 543, L139
Mitigating charge transfer inefficiency in the Chandra X-ray
Observatory Advanced CCD Imaging Spectrometer
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2000ApJ...534L.139T^{Image Removed}

The PSU CTI correction algorithm (long version):
Townsley, et al. 2002, NIMPA, 486, 751
Modeling charge transfer inefficiency in the Chandra Advanced
CCD Imaging Spectrometer
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2002NIMPA.486..751T^{Image Removed}

CEG CTI correction algorithm (this is what acis_process_events uses):
Grant, et al. 2004, Proc. SPIE, 5501
A charge transfer inefficiency correction model for the Chandra
X-ray CCDs
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2004SPIE.5501..177G^{Image Removed}

CTI temperature dependence (no correction algorithm yet):
Grant, et al. 2006, Proc. SPIE 6276
Temperature dependence of charge transfer inefficiency in
Chandra X-ray CCDs
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2006SPIE.6276E..48G^{Image Removed}

CTI temperature dependence correction:
Grant, 2007, presentation at Chandra Cal Workshop
Correcting for the temperature dependence of ACIS charge transfer
inefficency
http://cxc.harvard.edu/ccr/proceedings/07_proc/presentations/grant/^{Image Removed}

CTI correction with sacrificial charge: (not implemented)
Grant, et al. 2003, Proc. SPIE 4851
Sacrificial charge and the spectral resolution performance of
the Chandra Advanced CCD Imaging Spectrometer
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2003SPIE.4851..140G^{Image Removed}

ACIS Background:

Grant et al. 2002, ASP Conf. Proc., 262
The Temporal Characteristics of the Chandra X-ray Observatory
High Energy Particle Background
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2002ASPC..262..401G^{Image Removed}

Markevitch et al. 2003, ApJ, 583, 70
Chandra Spectra of the Soft X-ray Diffuse Background
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2003ApJ...583...70M^{Image Removed}

Chandra radiation environment:

Grant, Lamarr, Bautz, O'Dell, 2010, Proc. SPIE, 7732
Using ACIS on the Chandra X-ray Observatory as a particle radiation
monitor
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2010SPIE.7732E..80G^{Image Removed}

O'Dell, et al. 2008, Proc. SPIE, 6686
Managing radiation degradation of CCDs on the Chandra X-ray
Observatory III
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2007SPIE.6686E...3O^{Image Removed}

O'Dell, et al. 2005, Proc. SPIE, 5898
Managing radiation degradation of the CCDs on the Chandra X-ray
Observatory II
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2005SPIE.5898..212O^{Image Removed}

O'Dell, et al. 2003, Proc. SPIE, 4851
Managing radiation degradation of the CCDs on the Chandra X-ray
Observatory
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2003SPIE.4851...77O^{Image Removed}

(and others, but these are the main ones)

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