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Operations CXO Status Report

Friday 16 May 2025 9.00am EDT

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

Of note this week was the release on May 13 of the Sherpa 4.17.1 package for Python. This release of Sherpa incorporates enhancements, including to the XSPEC interface, additions to documentation, and bug fixes. For detailed release notes see: https://github.com/sherpa/sherpa/releases/tag/4.17.1

The schedule of targets for the next week is shown below and includes an observation of EXO0748-676, which was accepted as a Target of Opportunity on Apr 29.



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        SNRG21.5-0.9           HRC-I        May 19
        FRB20220914A           ACIS-S
        NGC5728                ACIS-S
        zetaPuppis             ACIS-S/HETG
        NGC5728                ACIS-S
        Radiation Belts                     May 20
        GX9+9                  ACIS-S/HETG
        2RXSJ000539.7-07540    ACIS-S
        GX9+9                  ACIS-S/HETG
        NGC1097                ACIS-S       May 21
        GX9+9                  ACIS-S/HETG
        NGC1097                ACIS-S
        GX9+9                  ACIS-S/HETG
        NGC1097                ACIS-S
        XIBOO                  HRC-I
        NGC4781                ACIS-S       May 22
        NGC4540                ACIS-S
        SextansA               ACIS-S
        Radiation Belts                     May 23
        SextansA               ACIS-S
        4U1626-67              HRC-I /HETG
        NGC5728                ACIS-S
        EXO0748-676            ACIS-S
        SextansA               ACIS-S
        NGC5728                ACIS-S       May 24
        4U1626-67              HRC-I /HETG
        E0102-72.3             ACIS-S
        2RXSJ160108.0-32545    ACIS-S
        2MASSJ08182026-1425    ACIS-S
        4U1626-67              HRC-I /HETG
        NGC4207                ACIS-S       May 25
        Radiation Belts
        NGC4781                ACIS-S
        SNRG21.5-0.9           HRC-S

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All spacecraft subsystems continued to support nominal operations.

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