Friday 29 July 2022 9.00am EDT
During the last week Chandra completed the observing schedule as planned. A Chandra image release was issued on Jul 25 describing Chandra observations of Zeta Ophiuchi, a single star that likely once had a companion that exploded as a supernova. Previously released infrared data from NASA's now-retired Spitzer Space Telescope reveals a spectacular shock wave that was formed by matter blowing away from the star's surface and slamming into gas in its path. Data from Chandra shows a bubble of X-ray emission located around the star, produced by gas that has been heated by the effects of the shock wave to tens of millions of degrees. For more details see: https://chandra.si.edu/photo/2022/zetaoph/ Of note this week was the announcement on Jul 26 of the Cycle 24 Peer Review recommended programs. For details see: http://cxc.harvard.edu/target_lists/cycle24/index.html The schedule of targets for the next week is shown below and includes observations of DQ Tau, which was accepted as a Director's Discretionary Time Target of Opportunity on Jul 15. |
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Radiation Belts Jul 31
DQTau ACIS-I
Abell2744 ACIS-I
Capella HRC-S /LETG
3CR394 ACIS-S
DQTau ACIS-I Aug 2
ngc4631 ACIS-S
CMZMolecularCloud ACIS-I
ngc4631 ACIS-S
DQTau ACIS-I Aug 3
AM2113-341 ACIS-S
Radiation Belts
[DAG2016]PSZ1-ARCG ACIS-S
DQTau ACIS-I Aug 4
Abell2142 ACIS-I
RXCJ2014.8-2430 ACIS-S
ngc4631 ACIS-S Aug 5
DQTau ACIS-I
MACSJ2204.8-1815 ACIS-I
[DAG2016]PSZ1-ARCG ACIS-S
Radiation Belts Aug 6
DQTau ACIS-I
ngc4631 ACIS-S
CMZMolecularCloud ACIS-I
CMZMolecularCloud ACIS-I Aug 7
CMZMolecularCloud ACIS-I
ngc4631 ACIS-S
DQTau ACIS-I
CMZMolecularCloud ACIS-I
Abell2142 ACIS-I------------------------------------------
All spacecraft subsystems except HRC continued to support nominal operations.
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Revised: July 08, 2022