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Friday 5 February 2010 9.00am EDT
| During the last week Chandra completed the observing schedule as
planned.
A real-time procedure was executed on Feb 3 to perform a routine self-check of the Electrical Interface Assembly (EIA) Sequencer. A Chandra press release was issued on Feb 3 describing an observation that shows the first clear evidence of a binary quasar within a pair of actively merging galaxies. The Chandra image of SDSS J1254+0846 shows a pair of quasars, located about 4.6 billion light years away, that are separated on the sky by only about 70 thousand light years. An optical image from the Baade-Magellan telescope in Chile shows tidal tails (gravitational-stripped streamers of stars and gas) fanning out from the two colliding galaxies. For details see: http://chandra.harvard.edu/press/10_releases/press_020310.html The schedule of targets for the next week is shown below. |
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Radiation Belts Feb 8 CygnusOB2 ACIS-I XTEJ1752-223 ACIS-S/HETG RXJ1131-1231 ACIS-S Feb 9 HE1104-1805 ACIS-S NGC2992 ACIS-S/HETG Radiation Belts Feb 10 IC10 ACIS-S Feb 11 CygnusOB2 (4 obs) ACIS-I NGC7096 ACIS-S Feb 13 NGC2992 ACIS-S/HETG Radiation Belts CygnusOB2 ACIS-I 0FGLJ1821.4-1444 ACIS-I Feb 14 PGC1217593 ACIS-S SDSSJ144052.60-0235 ACIS-S PG1115+080 ACIS-S NGC2992 ACIS-S/HETG
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All spacecraft subsystems continued to support nominal operations.
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