Friday 30 April 2010 9.00am EDT
| During the last week Chandra completed the observing schedule as planned.
A real-time procedure was executed on Apr 29 to update the on-board ephemeris. A Chandra press release was issued on Apr 29 describing evidence for the existence of two mid-size black holes close to the center of the nearby starburst galaxy M82. It has been a mystery of whether black holes exist with masses in between the stellar mass and supermassive categories. Evidence suggests that these two objects avoided falling into the giant black hole at the center of M82. It is possible these intermediate-mass black holes are examples of seeds required for the growth of supermassive black holes. For details see: http://chandra.harvard.edu/press/10_releases/press_042910.html Of note last week was the Chandra User Committee meeting held at the CXC on Apr 27-28. The schedule of targets for the next week is shown below. |
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AlphaCentauri HRC-I May 2 PGC042454 ACIS-S H1705-250 ACIS-S SNR0049-73.6 ACIS-S May 3 Radiation Belts May 4 SNR0049-73.6 ACIS-S NGC1291 ACIS-S AXJ145732-5901 ACIS-S May 5 M87 ACIS-S PKS1229-02 ACIS-S Radiation Belts May 6 2PIGG_m1381 ACIS-I May 7 2PIGG_m1598 ACIS-I PGC135818 ACIS-S G353.2+0.7 ACIS-I SNR0049-73.6 ACIS-S NGC1291 ACIS-S May 8 PGC071938 ACIS-S UGC07767 ACIS-S 2PIGG_m1746 ACIS-I SDSSJ131651.29+0556 ACIS-S May 9 M87 ACIS-S
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All spacecraft subsystems continued to support nominal operations.
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