Friday 1 December 2023 9.00am EST
During the last week Chandra completed the observing schedule as planned. A Chandra image release was issued on Nov 30 describing an X-ray study of “spider pulsars” in the Omega Centauri globular cluster. Spider pulsars are a type of millisecond pulsar that strips their companion stars of their atmospheres through energetic winds. Radio telescopes first spotted 18 millisecond pulsars in Omega Centauri and then Chandra followed up with its observations. The combined data allowed researchers to better understand how spider pulsars prey on their companion stars. For details see: https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2023/spiders/ The schedule of targets for the next week is shown below. |
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ArLac HRC-I Dec 3
ArLac (4 obs) HRC-I Dec 4
ACT-CLJ0223.5-3601 ACIS-S
WISEAJ042913.17+142 ACIS-S
ArLac (8 obs) HRC-I
WISEAJ002051.63+300 ACIS-S
SDSSJ090247.57+3041 ACIS-S Dec 5
eRASSUJ064553.0+24 HRC-I
SDSSJ111850.02+3513 ACIS-S
Radiation Belts
JWST-DTDF-1 ACIS-I Dec 6
HIP16753 HRC-I
BD+22521 HRC-I
JWST-DTDF-1 ACIS-I
PSOJ030947.49+27175 ACIS-S
ArLac (4 obs) HRC-I
ArLac (4 obs) HRC-I Dec 7
PSZ2G065.81-83.77 ACIS-I
2MASSJ04181926+1605 ACIS-S
JWST-DTDF-1 ACIS-I
BD+21504 HRC-I
BD+23527 HRC-I
JWST-DTDF-1 ACIS-I
PSOJ030947.49+27175 ACIS-S
Radiation Belts Dec 8
JWST-DTDF-1 ACIS-I
BD+23551 HRC-I
HD23975 HRC-I
ACT-CLJ1407.0+1048 ACIS-S Dec 9
SDSSJ092523.24+2141 ACIS-S
SDSSJ081010.69+07333 ACIS-S
AT2019qiz ACIS-S
eRASSUJ090421.1-383 ACIS-S
AT2019qiz ACIS-S
Abell3112SE ACIS-I Dec 10
2MASSJ04181926+1605 ACIS-S
ESO0118-034 ACIS-S
AT2019qiz ACIS-S
WISEAJ021416.37-210 ACIS-S
Radiation Belts------------------------------------------
All spacecraft subsystems continued to support nominal operations.
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Revised: July 08, 2022