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Contents:
17 Feb 2011 - ACIS peaks and sigmas
24 Mar 2011 - ACIS line fluxes
04 May 2011 - XIS peaks versus COR

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17 Feb 2011 - Catherine's attempt to duplicate Bev's monthly XIS plots for ACIS I3 (FI) and S3 (BI). Each data point is a fit to 0.1 years worth of cold ACIS calibration source data, filtered to include only the upper corner regions like XIS and grades G02346. After some testing as to which fitting procedures were less sensitive to background variations (important for ACIS probably not as much for XIS), and robust against low signal-to-noise data, I chose to use a Gaussian plus a linear background component (mpfitfun.pro with some limits to prevent non-physical fits).

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To confirm the source of the quantum efficiency reduction, here is the same plot, but for fits from the data in the lower corners of the CCD - closest to the framestore. There is no reduction in quantum efficiency for these data, indicating that the drop is due to increased CTI. Increased CTI leads to more charge trailing and more events morphing from acceptible to bad grades. CTI correction (the default in standard processing but not used here), would remove most of the QE drop.

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May 4, 2011 - Bev

XIS peak location vs Cut Off Rigidity for recent times (201101).

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