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Operations CXO Status Report

Friday 18 March 2022 9.00am EDT

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

A Chandra press release was issued on Mar 14 describing observations of a city-sized collapsed star that has generated a beam of matter and antimatter that stretches for trillions of miles. Data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory revealed the full extent of this beam, or filament. This discovery could help explain the presence of positrons detected throughout the Milky Way galaxy and here on Earth. Positrons are the antimatter counterpart to the electron. For details see: https://chandra.harvard.edu/press/22_releases/press_031422.html

The schedule of targets for the next week is shown below and includes observations of Sgr A* coordinated with EHT and observations of M87 coordinated with EHT and NuSTAR.



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        eMACSJ0502.9-2902      ACIS-I       Mar 20
        PSZ2G282.28+49.94      ACIS-I       Mar 21
        M87                    ACIS-S
        rhoOphA                ACIS-S/HETG
        Radiation Belts
        GDH16                  ACIS-I       Mar 22
        GDH16                  ACIS-I
        GDH16                  ACIS-I
        SgrA*                  ACIS-S
        KXComAB                ACIS-S
        rhoOphA                ACIS-S/HETG
        SgrA*                  ACIS-S       Mar 23
        PSZ2G282.28+49.94      ACIS-I
        E0102-72.3             ACIS-I
        Radiation Belts                     Mar 24
        PKS1136-135            ACIS-S
        E0102-72.3             ACIS-S       Mar 25
        SgrA*                  ACIS-S
        PSZ2G282.28+49.94      ACIS-I
        eMACSJ0502.9-2902      ACIS-I
        rhoOphA                ACIS-S/HETG  Mar 26
        M87                    ACIS-S
        NGC3563B               ACIS-S
        eMACSJ0502.9-2902      ACIS-I
        GDH16                  ACIS-I
        GDH16                  ACIS-I
        Radiation Belts                     Mar 27
        IRAS09104+4109         ACIS-S

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All spacecraft subsystems except HRC continued to support nominal operations.

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