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| Number: | 269 |
| 1st Author: | Albert Shih |
| 2nd Author: | Brian Dennis |
| Published: | 23 February 2016 |
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Annealing...
RHESSI's detectors accumulate radiation damage, and require periodic re-annealing. This involves bringing the temperatures up to a certain point, whereupon the crystal defects that have built up will tend to heal themselves. Then a careful cool-down to the normal operating temperature restores the pre-anneal performance. At least that is the hope, but it is a delicate operation and surprises have happened in past episodes. We have previously annealed in 2007, 2010, 2012, and 2014, and maintain a table here that lists not only the anneal time intervals, but also the times of offpoint from the Sun. These are all of the major data gaps in our solar coverage. The present one starts February 22, 02:19 UTC, and will last probably until mid-April.
For some of the history here, please see these Nuggets: The first anneal, 2007, some six years after launch. The fourth anneal, 2014; and its conclusion. We will issue another Nugget when operations resume.