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Operations CXO Status Report

Friday 4 May 2018 9.00am EDT

During the last week Chandra completed the observing schedule as planned.

A real-time procedure was executed on May 2 to perform a routine self-check of the Electrical Interface Assembly (EIA) Sequencer.

A Chandra image release was issued on May 2 describing observations of the stellar cluster NGC 6231. Studying such a cluster can help provide an accurate census of the stars that reside there. Chandra data were used to identify Sun-like stars in the cluster which were previously missed, in particular distinguishing cluster stars from foreground interlopers. For details see: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2018/ngc6231/

The schedule of targets for the next week is shown below and includes an observation of GX13+1 coordinated with VLA, and an observation of sGRB180418A, which was accepted as a Target of Opportunity on Apr 30.



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        Radiation Belts                     May 7
        CIZAJ2242.8+5301       ACIS-I
        sGRB180418A            ACIS-S
        SDSSJ150151.69+0943    ACIS-S
        UGC10015               ACIS-S
        CDWFS                  ACIS-I
        NGC5485                ACIS-S       May  8
        NGC3642                ACIS-S
        NGC2742                ACIS-S
        J1405+0415             ACIS-S
        J1616+0459             ACIS-S
        NGC5631                ACIS-S
        NGC3917                ACIS-S       May  9
        NGC4607                ACIS-S
        Radiation Belts
        OGLE3-ULENSPAR-05      ACIS-I       May 10
        GX13+1                 ACIS-S/HETG
        LSBCF574-07            ACIS-S
        NGC4222                ACIS-S
        NGC4413                ACIS-S
        NGC4567                ACIS-S
        NGC4429                ACIS-S
        NGC4380                ACIS-S       May 11
        3FGLJ1306.4-6043       ACIS-I
        VIKJ0305-3150          ACIS-S
        Radiation Belts                     May 12
        G344.7-0.1             ACIS-I
        SDSSJ143922.55+1959    ACIS-S       May 13
        NGC4445                ACIS-S
        NGC4451                ACIS-S
        NGC4307                ACIS-S

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All spacecraft subsystems continued to support nominal operations.

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