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Operations CXO Status Report

Friday 4 March 2022 9.00am EST

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

Real-time procedures were executed on Mar 2 to perform a routine self-check of the Electrical Interface Assembly (EIA) Sequencer and to perform a diagnostic dump of the Control Processing Electronics (CPE).

Chandra press and image releases were issued on Feb 22 describing Observations of GW170817, a merger of two neutron stars and the first object detected in both gravitational waves and electromagnetic radiation. Chandra is the only observatory still able to detect light from this extraordinary cosmic collision more than four years after the original event. The most recent observations show the X-ray flux as steady, indicating a need for a new source of X-rays. One explanation for this new source of X-rays is that the expanding debris from the merger has generated a shock, while an alternative explanation is that the X-rays come from material falling towards a black hole that formed after the neutron stars merged. For more details see: https://chandra.si.edu/press/22_releases/press_022822.html

The schedule of targets for the next week is shown below and includes observations of SDSS J143016.05+230344.4, which is a follow-up to a Director's Discretionary Time Target of Opportunity accepted on Feb 7, an observation of Swift J170800-402551.8, which was accepted as a Target of Opportunity on Feb 2, an observation of Swift J182404.3-1358, which was accepted as a Target of Opportunity on Feb 2, and observations of AT 2022cmc, which was accepted as a Target of Opportunity on Feb 23.



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        HE1113-0641            ACIS-S       Mar  7
        SwiftJ170800-402551    ACIS-I
        hetej1900.1-2455       ACIS-S
        GDHIdp57               ACIS-I
        GDHIdp57               ACIS-I
        GDHIdp57               ACIS-I
        SDSSJ143016.05+2303    ACIS-S
        AT2022cmc              ACIS-S/HETG
        Radiation Belts                     Mar  8
        E0102-72.3             ACIS-I
        HE1113-0641            ACIS-S
        E0102-72.3             ACIS-I       Mar  9
        SDSSJ143016.05+2303    ACIS-S
        CMZMolecularCloud      ACIS-I
        B1152+199              ACIS-S
        SWIFTJ182404.3-1358    ACIS-I
        E0102-72.3             ACIS-I
        PSZ2G340.94+35.07      ACIS-I
        PGC1021091             ACIS-S       Mar 10
        CMZMolecularCloud      ACIS-I
        AT2022cmc              ACIS-S/HETG
        Radiation Belts                     Mar 11
        SDSSJ143016.05+2303    ACIS-S
        hetej1900.1-2455       ACIS-S
        CMZMolecularCloud      ACIS-I
        M96                    ACIS-I
        CMZMolecularCloud      ACIS-I       Mar 12
        GDHIdp57               ACIS-I
        GDHIdp57               ACIS-I
        GDHIdp57               ACIS-I
        M96                    ACIS-I
        E0102-72.3             ACIS-I
        PGC1021091             ACIS-S
        SDSSJ143016.05+2303    ACIS-S       Mar 13
        WISEAJ154058.71+473    ACIS-S
        Radiation Belts

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The unavailability of the HRC instrument last week prevented nominal operations.

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