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Operations CXO Status Report

Friday 3 December 2021 9.00am EST

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

Chandra passed through the twelfth, thirteenth, and fourteenth eclipses of the season on Nov 27, Nov 30, and Dec 03 respectively, with nominal power and thermal performance.

Real-time procedures were executed on Dec 1 to perform a routine self-check of the Electrical Interface Assembly (EIA) Sequencer and to perform a diagnostic dump of the Control Processing Electronics (CPE).

Of note this week, summary X-ray properties from the Chandra Source Catalog (CSC) version 2.0.1, which provides information on 317,167 unique X-ray sources detected with Chandra during its first 15 years of operations, have been integrated into the NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED). This makes the benefits of NED queries -- positional crossmatch and cross-identification with existing sources, homogeneous multi-wavelength photometry and spectral energy distribution, redshift, classification, distance and other source properties -- available for the exploration of CSC sources. For more details, see https://cxc.cfa.harvard.edu/csc/

The schedule of targets for the next week is shown below and includes observations of GW170817 coordinated with VLA.



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        Radiation Belts                     Dec  5
        NGC1589                ACIS-S       Dec  6
        FRB190608              ACIS-S
        NGC253                 ACIS-I
        TAP26                  ACIS-S
        GW170817               ACIS-S       Dec  7
        Sh2-284                ACIS-I
        HZ43                   HRC-I /LETG
        [RCD2020]J142.91008    ACIS-S
        Radiation Belts                     Dec  8
        GW170817               ACIS-S
        FYCMa                  ACIS-S       Dec  9
        WISEJ041010.60-0913    ACIS-S
        SPT-CLJ2355-6002       ACIS-I
        WISEJ041010.60-0913    ACIS-S
        AntliaClusterSE        ACIS-I
        SN2012ap               ACIS-S
        2RXSJ055423.4+20163    HRC-S /LETG  Dec 10
        GW170817               ACIS-S
        MOOJ1059+5454          ACIS-I
        Radiation Belts                     Dec 11
        TAP26                  ACIS-S
        MOOJ1059+5454          ACIS-I
        2RXSJ055423.4+20163    HRC-S /LETG
        GW170817               ACIS-S       Dec 12
        SDSSJ104754.58+6213    ACIS-S
        MOOJ1059+5454          ACIS-I

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All spacecraft subsystems continued to support nominal operations.

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