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Operations CXO Status Report

Friday 22 February 2008 9.00am EST

During the last week the observing schedule was replanned to include an 85 Ks observation of 4U 1812-12 that was accepted as a fast turn-around Target Of Opportunity (TOO) on Feb 15. Loads were replanned and uplinked on Feb 17 for an observation on Feb 18. Observations of UGC 4203, RX J1131-1231, Carina South Pillars, IGR J18485-0047, IGR J18308-1232 and XTE J1810-197 were impacted by the TOO and will be rescheduled in a later load.

A Chandra image release was issued on Feb 21 of the pulsar in Kes 75. The Chandra data combined with RXTE timing measurements indicate behavior that suggests the object may fill a gap between that of pulsars and magnetars. For futher details see: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2008/kes75/

The schedule of targets for the next week is shown below.

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Radiation Belts                     Feb 26
Carina South Pilla     ACIS-I
NGC 3957               ACIS-S
BR1202-0725            ACIS-S       Feb 27
IGR J18325-0756        ACIS-S
IGR J19443+2117        ACIS-I
IGR J19267+1325        ACIS-I
AX 1845.0-0433         ACIS-S
SDSS J1421+3433        ACIS-S       Feb 28
1910                   ACIS-S
2000                   ACIS-S
NGC 4308               ACIS-S
1849+670               ACIS-S
Radiation Belts
Carina South Pillars   ACIS-I       Feb 29
cl0237-5224            ACIS-I
AX J190818+0745        ACIS-S
2XMMp J123719.3+11     ACIS-S
1938                   ACIS-S       Mar 1
1871                   ACIS-S
AX J184652-0240        ACIS-S
AX J184400-0355        ACIS-S
RXCJ0220.9-3829        ACIS-I
Carina South Pillars   ACIS-I
AX J185608+0218        ACIS-S      Mar 2
J1928+1746             ACIS-I
Radiation Belts
H1743-322              ACIS-S/HETG
Abell 2220             ACIS-S       Mar 3
NGC4151                HRC-I

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All spacecraft subsystems continued to support nominal operations.

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