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Operations CXO Status Report

Friday 23 October 2015 9.00am EDT

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

A real-time procedure was executed on Oct 21 to collect bus-current data at a higher than normal rate during a planned angular-momentum unload. The data will be used to characterize the expected bus-current values for a range of thruster pulse durations during a nominal unload.

A Chandra press release was issued on Oct 21 describing observations of a "tidal disruption" event, dubbed ASASSN-14li, the closest one discovered in ten years. Astronomers have witnessed stellar debris being blown away after a black hole destroyed the star. For details see: http://chandra.si.edu/press/15_releases/press_102115.html

The schedule of targets for the next week is shown below and includes an observation of PHAT B9 coordinated with NuSTAR.



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        SDSSJ091938.63+3602    ACIS-S       Oct 26
        PHATB9                 ACIS-I
        Radiation Belts
        ChandraDeepField-S     ACIS-I       Oct 27
        CygnusA-Nucleus        ACIS-I       Oct 28
        SDSSJ153110.59+3414    ACIS-S
        Bootesmoddepth1        ACIS-I       Oct 29
        Radiation Belts
        G296.5+10.0-SW         ACIS-I       Oct 30
        CODEX55604             ACIS-I
        SDSSJ235654.49-1016    ACIS-S
        ChandraDeepField-S     ACIS-I
        Radiation Belts                     Nov  1
        CygnusA-Nucleus        ACIS-I

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All spacecraft subsystems continued to support nominal operations.

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