Friday 10 June 2022 9.00am EDT
During the last week Chandra completed the observing schedule as planned. A Chandra image release was issued on Jun 7 describing observations of a shock wave about 1.6 million light years long that is stretching along the collision between two galaxy clusters. Galaxy clusters are enormous structures containing hundreds or thousands of galaxies, hot gas, and dark matter. These cosmic giants sometimes collide and unleash vast amounts of energy, as is the case of Abell 2146. Scientists studying this colossal collision have found similarities to physics on much different smaller scales. For details see: https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2022/a2146/ The schedule of targets for the next week is shown below and includes an observation of IGRJ17091-3624, which was accepted as a Director's Discretionary Time Target of Opportunity on Jun 2 and is coordinated with NuSTAR and NICER. |
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Abell2744 ACIS-I Jun 13
GDH24 (3 obs) ACIS-I
Abell2744 ACIS-I
GDH24 ACIS-I Jun 14
GDH24 ACIS-I
GDHInt34 (3 obs) ACIS-I
Abell2744 ACIS-I
GDHInt34 ACIS-I Jun 15
GDHInt34 ACIS-I
ASASSN-14ko ACIS-S
GDHIdp37 (3 obs) ACIS-I
ESO422-028 ACIS-S
MKN421 ACIS-S/LETG
PSZ2G253.13+57.49 ACIS-I Jun 16
IGRJ17091-3624 ACIS-S/HETG
Radiation Belts Jun 17
MKN421 ACIS-S/LETG
MKN421 ACIS-S/LETG
2MASXJ17131541-2502 ACIS-S
MKN421 ACIS-S/LETG Jun 18
MKN421 ACIS-S/LETG
MACSJ1617.5-0716 ACIS-I
MKN421 ACIS-S/LETG Jun 19
Radiation Belts
CMZMolecularCloud ACIS-I
2RXSJ081116.2-12552 ACIS-S Jun 20
CMZMolecularCloud ACIS-I------------------------------------------
All spacecraft subsystems except HRC continued to support nominal operations.
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Revised: July 08, 2022