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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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ACIS Papers and Resources

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

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

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

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

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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

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

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

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

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