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Date submitted: 05-Feb-1998
Time of the fourth entrance filter failure I have taken the same approach as Loren to narrow down the time of the fourth entrance filter failure. That is, to get the flux of a small box located at bottom right of AlMg images with exposure DPE=25 (5.3 s). This is because the cadence of these images is higher than that of images in the narrowband filter that are taken to monitor the level of straylight. Like Loren's analysis for the time of the first entrance filter failure, decompression of the images is the only image processing. I have done special reformatting for DSN data to get better time coverage. The conclusion here is that straylight increased some time between 00:33 and 02:44 UT on 24-Jan-98. In comparison, Hugh's earlier estimate was between 16:35 and 23:15 UT on 23-Jan-98 on the basis of the narrowband images. But his times seem to be affected by poor sampling of these images. The plots presented here show that the signal level increased by about 10 % between 00:33 and 02:44 UT on 24-Jan-98. It is unclear how much of this represents the increase of straylighy. It is not possible to get the time more accurately, because there were no data in between. Nariaki Nitta, 5-Feb-98, at ISAS to be one-week SXT_CO
