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D. Golimowski 2010 STScI Calibration Workshop 1

ACS after SM4:New Life for an Old Workhorse

David GolimowskiSpace Telescope Science Institute

22 July 2010

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ACS Chronology QuickTime™ and aTIFF (Uncompressed) decompressor


• March 2002: ACS installed in HST during Servicing Mission 3B (STS-109)

• June 2006: Failure of Side 1 LVPS. Switch to redundant Side 2 electronics. All camera operations restored.

• January 2007: Failure of Side 2 LVPS or APB. Loss of WFC and HRC operations; SBC still operational.

• May 2009: ACS-R hardware installed during Servicing Mission 4 (STS-125). WFC and SBC pass Aliveness and Functional Tests; HRC not recovered.

STS-125 astronauts Drew Feustel and John Grunsfeld during EVA-3


The ACS Repair (ACS-R) QuickTime™ and aTIFF (Uncompressed) decompressor


Four major components of ACS-R:• CCD Electronics Box Replacement (CEB-R)• Low Voltage Power Supply Replacement (LVPS-R)• Power Intercept Element (PIE)• Power Output Element (POE)


The CEB-R QuickTime™ and aTIFF (Uncompressed) decompressor


Main CEB-R features:

• Teledyne SIDECAR* ASIC** permits optimization of WFC performance via adjustment of CCD clocks, biases, and pixel transmission timing

• Built in oscilloscope mode (O-mode) that allows sensing of analog signal from each output amplifier

* System for Image Digitization, Enhancement, Control, and Retrieval

** Application Specific Integrated Circuit


WFC Optimization Campaign (1) QuickTime™ and aTIFF (Uncompressed) decompressor


Ground testing:• Verified performance of CEB-R with flight-spare WFC, but not actual flight WFC

SITe CCD performance highly variable

• Revealed non-ideal transient settling behavior in external preamp Preamp not replaced by ACS-R, so behavior with CEB-R not verifiable

• Revealed noise dependence on timing of data transmission from CEB-R to MEB

On-orbit testing:• To satisfy requirement that WFC perform at least as well as before, CEB-R must

accommodate above uncertainties via flexible, programmable settings

• Need iterative campaign to optimize CCD read noise, gains, linearity, full well depth, CTE, cross-talk


WFC Optimization Campaign (2) QuickTime™ and aTIFF (Uncompressed) decompressor


Strategy:

• Perform up to 8 iterations of comprehensive CCD performance tests and exploratory adjustments of bias voltages, clock rails, and data transmission timing via uplinked commands to ASIC

• Start with pre-failure default CCD voltages and timing patterns as baseline, then vary appropriate values to investigate specific conditions

• Converge to optimal settings; truncate Optimization Campaign if possible

• Select default CDS mode (dual-slope integrator or clamp-and-sample)

• Modify flight software and assembly code to conform to optimal settings


OC Results QuickTime™ and aTIFF (Uncompressed) decompressor


• OC began 28 May 2009 with pre-SM4 default (old CEB) voltage & timing settings

• Initial performance matched or exceeded projections and expectations. Dark current, CTE, and hot pixels consistent with prolonged radiation exposure.

• Dual-slope integrator (DSI) selected as default CDS mode

• Gradient of 5-10 DN caused by slow drift of bias reference voltage after readout of each row of pixels. Gradient is stable and removable.

• Low level (±1 DN) bias stripes caused by 1/f noise generated by ASIC during bias voltage offset.

• OC ended 3 Jun 2009 due to anomaly in WFC2 for non-default VOD. Pre-SM4 default settings adopted for all post-SM4 operations.




WFC Performance Summary

CharacteristicJan 2007

(measured)May 2009* (projected)

Problematic*Post SM4

(measured)

Read noise (e–; gain = 2)

C&S: 5.5 DSI: 4.0 10DSI: 3.9-4.7 C&S: 4.4-5.7

Dark current (e–/pix/hr) 10.7 15 100 20-25

Hot pixels (%) 0.68 1.1 1.5 1.1

Full well depth (e–) 84,000 84,000 40,000 > 80,000

Non-linearity (%) < 0.1 < 0.1 0.5 < 0.2

CTE (EPER; 1620 e–) 0.999949 0.999921 0.9999 0.99989

Cross-talk (50 ke– hot pixels)

4x10-5 4x10-5 4x10-4 (5±4)x10-5

Bias shift** (%) 0.02 < 0.1 < 0.20.02-0.30 (before correction)

* Projected and problematic values from Gilliland et al. 2008 (TIR ACS 2008-04) .**Signal-dependent shift due to incomplete settling of reference voltage in DSI high-pass filter. Effect can be corrected by software algorithm.




WFC Dark Current History

12 hr anneal 6 hr anneal

-77 C -81 C

6 hr anneal

-77 C




WFC CTE History

• EPER test shows worse than expected CTE degradation (0.99989 vs. 0.99992), but…

• Evolution of deferred-charge trails from hot pixels show degradation consistent with expectation

• Pre-SM4 correction formulae for WFC and HRC aperture photometry valid for post-SM4 data (Chiaberge ISR 2009-01)

• Empirical pixel-based CTE corrections now a reality ! (Next talk by Jay Anderson)


WFC Bias and Dark Frames QuickTime™ and aTIFF (Uncompressed) decompressor


Superbias - 1 full anneal cycle (DSI; 34 frames)

Superdark - 1/2 anneal cycle (DSI; 24 frames)

bias “gradient” (5-10 DN)

bias stripes (± 1 DN)


Bias Stripe Effect QuickTime™ and aTIFF (Uncompressed) decompressor


• Caused by 1/f noise (1 mHz to 1 Hz) in bias reference voltage after CDS (Talks by Bernie Rauscher and Markus Loose)

• Appears in both DSI and C&S frames

• Stripes vary by ~ 0.75 e–; negligible relative to read noise

• Noise is correlated; may affect photometry of the faintest sources

• Software developed to mitigate effect (Poster A2 by Norman Grogin)


Bias Stripe Removal QuickTime™ and aTIFF (Uncompressed) decompressor


(before) (after)


Cross Talk QuickTime™ and aTIFF (Uncompressed) decompressor


NGC 4701 (pre-SM4) NGC 6217 (post-SM4)

(See poster A3 and ISR ACS 2010-02 by Anatoly Suchkov, et al.)

Gain = 2 e–/DN


Summary QuickTime™ and aTIFF (Uncompressed) decompressor


• ACS record after SM4: 1 win (WFC), 1 loss (HRC), 1 tie (SBC)

• ACS-R Optimization Campaign showed that WFC read noise, linearity, full-well depth, and cross-talk match or exceed pre-SM4 levels

• CTE, hot pixels, dark current have degraded to levels consistent with prolonged exposure to HST’s radiation environment

• Bias gradient of 5-10 DN caused by a slow drift of the DSI reference voltage during and after the readout of each row of pixels; stable and removable

• Low level (1 DN) bias stripes caused by 1/f noise in bias reference voltage set after CDS stage of signal processing chain; not reproducible from frame to frame

• Algorithms for mitigating bias stripes and pixel-to-pixel CTE correction will be available to users very soon; STScI is investigating implementation into calacs.


ACS-R Design and Optimization Teams



PI: Ed Cheng (Conceptual Analytics)

STScI: George Chapman, Marco Chiaberge, Tyler Desjardins, Tracy Ellis, David Golimowski, Norman Grogin, Pey-Lian Lim, Ray Lucas, Aparna Maybhate, Max Mutchler, Merle Reinhart, Marco Sirianni (ESA/ESTEC), Linda Smith, Anatoly Suchkov, Alan Welty, Tom Wheeler

GSFC: Steve Arslanian, Kevin Boyce, Darryl Dye, Olivia Lupie, Kathleen Mil, Barbara Scott, Beverly Serrano, Augustyn Waczynski, Erin Wilson

Teledyne: Markus Loose (Markury Scientific), Raphael Ricardo

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