Friday 22 September 2023 9.00am EDT
During the last week Chandra completed the observing schedule as planned. Chandra passed through the 6th and 7th eclipses of the season on Sep 17 and 20 respectively, with nominal power and thermal performance. Real-time procedures were executed on Sep 20 to update the ACIS Flight Software to version 60 (Standard H, Optional J) and to update the txings parameters to optimized values appropriate for the current state of the solar cycle. These actions will improve the robustness of ACIS operations. Of note, the annual symposium of the NASA Hubble Fellowship Program will take place in Cambridge Sep 18-22. There will be over 60 science talks across all areas of astrophysics. For more information see: https://cxc.cfa.harvard.edu/fellows/2023-nhfp-symposium/ The schedule of targets for the next week is shown below. |
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Radiation Belts Sep 25
PSZ2G075.85+15.53 ACIS-S
MR2251-178 HRC-S /LETG Sep 26
J0038 ACIS-S
SNR1987A ACIS-S/HETG
MR2251-178 HRC-S /LETG
J0038 ACIS-S Sep 27
SNR1987A ACIS-S/HETG
J0038 ACIS-S
SNR1987A HRC-S /LETG
Abell2744 ACIS-I
Radiation Belts Sep 28
QSOJ0041-4936 ACIS-I
ESO338-4 ACIS-I
MR2251-178 HRC-S /LETG Sep 29
Slugnebula ACIS-I
Ark120_s3 ACIS-S
PSZ2G075.85+15.53 ACIS-S
Abell2744 ACIS-I
SNR1987A HRC-S /LETG Sep 30
SDSSJ014128.26+0706 ACIS-S
Radiation Belts
SDSSJ082603.32+3428 ACIS-S
Slugnebula ACIS-I Oct 1
IRAS09104+4109 ACIS-S
Slugnebula ACIS-I
IRAS09104+4109 ACIS-S------------------------------------------
All spacecraft subsystems continued to support nominal operations.
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Revised: July 08, 2022