Friday 13 July 2007 9.00am EDT
| During the last week Chandra completed the observing schedule as
planned.
Chandra passed through the remaining three eclipses of the 2007 Summer season on June 7, July 9 and 12 with nominal power and thermal performance. A real-time procedure was conducted on July 11 to set the short eclipse flag to "true" in preparation for the final eclipse of the season on July 12. A second real-time procedure was conducted on July 12 to disable SCS 29. A Chandra image release was issued on July 7 of the supernova remnant RCW 103. The Chandra data implies that the neutron star near the center is rotating once every 6.7 hours, confirming recent work from XMM-Newton. This is much slower than a neutron star of its age should be spinning and suggestive that the massive progenitor star may not have exploded in isolation. For further details see: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2007/rcw103/ Of note last week was the X-ray Grating Spectroscopy meeting held July 11-13 in Cambridge and sponsored by the CXC. The meeting was well attended by over 80 participants. The schedule of targets for the next week is shown below. |
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Radiation Belts Jul 15 Cyg X-2 ACIS-S AX J194152+2251 ACIS-S Jul 16 NGC6397 ACIS-S Radiation Belts Jul 17 SST24 J143644.22+350 ACIS-S Jul 18 XTE J1744-230 HRC-I Jul 19 Deep GCS 25 ACIS-I Deep GCS 4 ACIS-I Sgr A* ACIS-I AX J185905+0333 ACIS-S Jul 20 4C+65.15 ACIS-S Radiation Belts NGC 4151 ACIS-S/HETG Jul 21 PSR J1744-1134 ACIS-I AX J190749+0803 ACIS-S Jul 22 L1228 core ACIS-I
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All spacecraft subsystems continued to support nominal operations.
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