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Operations CXO Status Report

Friday 16 October 2020 9.00am EDT

During the last week the observing schedule was replanned to incorporate an observation of SGR 1830-0645, which was accepted as a Director's Discretionary Time Target of Opportunity on Oct 10. Loads for the replanned schedule were uplinked on Oct 13. A scheduled observation of UGC01958 was impacted by the replan and will be rescheduled in a future week.

Real-time procedures were executed during each ground contact to reset the DSN Outage Dead Man Load.

A Chandra press release was issued on Oct 14 describing a study which identifies the reasons why some black holes produce powerful jets and others do not. This study of over 700 quasars has revealed that the corona, a region of diffuse hot gas threaded with powerful magnetic fields, may dictate whether or not a supermassive black hole generates a jet. This study combined data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, ESA's XMM-Newton, NSF's Very Large Array, and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. For details see: https://chandra.harvard.edu/press/20_releases/press_101420.html

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



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        SN2012dj               ACIS-S       Oct 18
        CassiopeiaA            HRC-I
        SDSSJ231152.90-00133   ACIS-S       Oct 19
        Radiation Belts
        RCJ0311+0507           ACIS-S
        OrionNebulaCluster     ACIS-S/HETG  Oct 20
        NSA51928               ACIS-S
        RCJ0311+0507           ACIS-S
        OrionNebulaCluster     ACIS-S/HETG  Oct 21
        SDSSJ094132.90+00073   ACIS-S
        RCJ0311+0507           ACIS-S
        Radiation Belts                     Oct 22
        Westerlund1            ACIS-I
        2MASXJ00193596-04401   ACIS-S
        RCJ0311+0507           ACIS-S
        OrionNebulaCluster     ACIS-S/HETG  Oct 23
        NuSTARJ110727-5948.    ACIS-S
        J0252-0503             ACIS-S
        OrionNebulaCluster     ACIS-S/HETG  Oct 24
        Radiation Belts
        WR93b                  ACIS-S       Oct 25
        4FGLJ2041.1+4736       ACIS-I

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All spacecraft subsystems continued to support nominal operations.

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