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Operations CXO Status Report

Friday 10 October 2025 9.00am EDT

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

Of note this week was the release on Oct 7 of the Sherpa 4.18.0 package for Python. This release of Sherpa incorporates various new features, enhancements, and bug fixes. For detailed release notes see: https://github.com/sherpa/sherpa/releases/tag/4.18

The schedule of targets for the next week is shown below and includes observations of WR11 coordinated with NuSTAR.



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        Radiation Belts                     Oct 12
        WR11                   ACIS-S/HETG  Oct 13
        SDSSJ014137.22-0914    ACIS-S
        PSRJ1418-6058          ACIS-I
        PS16dtm                ACIS-S
        SPT-CLJ0421-4845       ACIS-I       Oct 14
        Vega                   HRC-S
        Vega                   HRC-S
        PSRJ1957+5033          ACIS-I
        MACSJ0018.5+1626       ACIS-I
        Mrk247                 ACIS-S
        Radiation Belts                     Oct 15
        WR11                   ACIS-S/HETG
        [vD2023]1              ACIS-I
        4U1626-67              HRC-S /LETG  Oct 16
        SDSSJ005855.46+0100    ACIS-S
        MRCB1737-609           ACIS-S
        IC5273                 ACIS-S
        PGC3320749             ACIS-S       Oct 17
        NGC7456                ACIS-S
        Radiation Belts                     Oct 18
        WR11                   ACIS-S/HETG
        HEPG045.030+01.438     ACIS-I
        MACSJ0018.5+1626       ACIS-I
        MAXIJ1820+070          ACIS-S
        TVCassiopeia           ACIS-S/HETG  Oct 19
        CygnusX-2              ACIS-S/HETG

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All spacecraft subsystems continued to support nominal operations.

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