ACIS Papers and Resources
The new CXC Calibration has many good references and links to presentations at Calibration Workshops.
http://cxc.harvard.edu/cal/Acis/detailed_info.html
ACIS CTI, initial discovery:
Prigozhin, et al. 2000, Proc SPIE, 4012, 720
Radiation damage in the Chandra x-ray CCDs
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2000SPIE.4012..720P
Prigozhin, et al. 2000, Proc SPIE, 4140, 123
Characterization of the radiation damage in the Chandra x-ray CCDs
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2000SPIE.4140..123P
ACIS CTI monitoring:
(CTI, trailing charge, correcting CTI for bkg and temperature, etc.)
Grant, et al. 2005, Proc. SPIE, 5898
Long-term trends in radiation damage of Chandra X-ray CCDs
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2005SPIE.5898..201G
LaMarr, et al. 2008, Proc SPIE, 7011, 66
Front- and back-illuminated x-ray CCD performance in low- and high-Earth orbit: performance trends of Suzaku XIS and Chandra ACIS detectors
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2008SPIE.7011E..66L
The ACIS monitoring web pages (updated monthly):
http://space.mit.edu/~cgrant/monitor.html
ACIS CTI Correction:
The Penn State CTI correction algorithm (short version):
Townsley, et al. 2000, ApJ, 543, L139
Mitigating charge transfer inefficiency in the Chandra X-ray Observatory Advanced CCD Imaging Spectrometer
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2000ApJ...534L.139T
The Penn State CTI correction algorithm (long version):
Townsley, et al. 2002, NIMPA, 486, 751
Modeling charge transfer inefficiency in the Chandra Advanced CCD Imaging Spectrometer
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2002NIMPA.486..751T
MIT CTI correction algorithm (this is what acis_process_events uses):
Grant, et al. 2004, Proc. SPIE, 5501
A charge transfer inefficiency correction model for the Chandra X-ray CCDs
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2004SPIE.5501..177G
CTI temperature dependence (but no temperature-dependent CTI-correction):
Grant, et al. 2006, Proc. SPIE 6276
Temperature dependence of charge transfer inefficiency in Chandra X-ray CCDs
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2006SPIE.6276E..48G
CTI temperature dependence correction:
Grant, 2007, presentation at Chandra Cal Workshop
Correcting for the temperature dependence of ACIS charge transfer inefficency
http://cxc.harvard.edu/ccr/proceedings/07_proc/presentations/grant/
CTI correction with sacrificial charge: (not implemented)
Grant, et al. 2003, Proc. SPIE 4851
Sacrificial charge and the spectral resolution performance of the Chandra Advanced CCD Imaging Spectrometer
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2003SPIE.4851..140G
ACIS Background:
Grant et al. 2002, ASP Conf. Proc., 262
The Temporal Characteristics of the Chandra X-ray Observatory High Energy Particle Background
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2002ASPC..262..401G
Markevitch et al. 2003, ApJ, 583, 70
Chandra Spectra of the Soft X-ray Diffuse Background
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2003ApJ...583...70M
Chandra radiation environment:
Grant, Lamarr, Bautz, O'Dell, 2010, Proc. SPIE, 7732
Using ACIS on the Chandra X-ray Observatory as a particle radiation monitor
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2010SPIE.7732E..80G
O'Dell, et al. 2008, Proc. SPIE, 6686
Managing radiation degradation of CCDs on the Chandra X-ray Observatory III
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2007SPIE.6686E...3O
O'Dell, et al. 2005, Proc. SPIE, 5898
Managing radiation degradation of the CCDs on the Chandra X-ray Observatory II
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2005SPIE.5898..212O
O'Dell, et al. 2003, Proc. SPIE, 4851
Managing radiation degradation of the CCDs on the Chandra X-ray Observatory
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2003SPIE.4851...77O
(and others, but these are the main ones)