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Operations CXO Status Report

Friday 10 February 2017 9.00am EST

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

A Chandra press release was issued on Feb 6 describing the growth of the black hole XJ1500+0154. The X-ray observations from Chandra, Swift and XMM-Newton found evidence for a "tidal disruption event" (TDE). The extraordinary long bright phase of this event spanning over ten years means that among observed TDEs this was either the most massive star ever to be completely torn apart during one of these events, or the first where a smaller star was completely torn apart. For details see: http://chandra.si.edu/press/17_releases/press_020617.html

The schedule of targets for the next week is shown below and includes observations of M87 coordinated with NuStar, Markarian 1018 which was accepted as a Target of Opportunity Dec 19 and is coordinated with HST, and CSS161010 which was accepted as a Director's Discretionary Time Target of Opportunity on Dec 21.



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        AXJ1753.5-2745         ACIS-I       Feb 12
        MOOJ1142+1527          ACIS-I
        SDSSJ152654.61+56551   ACIS-S       Feb 13
        CSS161010              ACIS-S
        Radiation Belts                     Feb 14
        NGC4212                ACIS-S
        Mrk273                 ACIS-S
        NGC3675                ACIS-S
        Comacluster            ACIS-I
        M87                    ACIS-S       Feb 15
        spog1557               ACIS-S
        NGC2513                ACIS-S
        NGC4312                ACIS-S
        Mrk273                 ACIS-S
        M87                    ACIS-S       Feb 16
        Radiation Belts
        Mrk1018                ACIS-S
        NGC2672                ACIS-S       Feb 17
        WD1145+017             ACIS-S
        2MASSJ11505787+4822    ACIS-S
        Comacluster            ACIS-I
        Mrk273                 ACIS-S       Feb 18
        Radiation Belts                     Feb 19
        Comacluster            ACIS-I

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All spacecraft subsystems continued to support nominal operations.

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