Summary of DSRI JEM-X Monday Meeting: 26th April 2004 Instrument Status - Basically still good for flight models - SB showed results of tests on labl model (original FM-1): successive switch ons start at higher gain and show less and less decay. FS has been aged by being irradiated, possibly accelerated by relatively high lab temperatures. Switching off returns instrument to pristine state temporarily, but whole-mission aging occurs in just a few hours after switch on. Confirms what we've seen with JEM-X2 re-activation. Lab model has sharper 22KeV lines than JEM-X1. Gain falls as an area is strongly illuminated with Cd source - suggests our calibration method may have an inherent weakness. - NL worried that relative positions of Xe (low intensity illumination) and calibration sources peaks (high intensity) are changing with time, so position of Xe peak determined from -COR data must be investigated - Charging dependent gain problem (CR interactions) could be complicated by no local charging caused by grazing incidence cosmic rays - JC showed Xe line analysis in JEM-X1: 14-18 April long observation. Comparison of RAW, SPAG-corrected and SPAG+anode-corrected detector spectra. Only SPAG corrections significantly sharpen peak, showing these are still viable corrections and JEM-X1 not harmed by its long rest. - Current gain correction technique should be verified by full scale Xe line analysis covering all periods of mission NL: ISWT -IBIS has `snakes' in spectra due to silver-doped glue absorption and strong K-edge near Cd peak. Each pixel has its own glue blob size and silver fluorescence is modulated by mask patter so that Cd photons get counted as source photons - but they're working on it. -SPI worried about limited telemetry because CR rate will be increasing as solar activity decreases, so expect limit to be reached in a few months. Comparing SPI background with Oulu neutron monitor information, NL suggestions the background is increasing faster than CR flux and instrument is becoming more radioactive. - Core Program: pressure on gal. centre observations from CP and Russians so other observers aren't getting a chance to look in that region, so in future GC obs. in CP and Russian time will be more limited. New working group to look into CP future interests SDAST meeting: - Imaging and spectral extraction software needs a lot of work. Tim Oosterbroek from ESTEC will attend meeting for spectral extraction purposes. Nicolas Produit from ISDC will attend since he has experience with Pixel Illumination Methods (PIFs) for IBIS. Two extra days after meeting to discuss just these subjects. Paul Connell wants more detailed description of JEM-X instruments.