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Friday 12 April 2019 9.00am EDT
During the last week Chandra completed the observing schedule as planned. Real-time procedures were executed on Apr 7 and Apr 10 to perform full-frame dark current readouts of the Aspect Camera Assembly CCD. A Chandra image release was issued on Apr 10 discussing Chandra observations of M87 performed as part of the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) campaign which imaged the black hole at the center of this galaxy. Chandra has a much larger field of view than the EHT, so it can view the full length of the jet of high-energy particles launched by the intense gravitational and magnetic fields around the black hole. For details see: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2019/black_hole/ Of note this week, the Chandra X-ray Center announced the conference "20 Years of Chandra Science Symposium" to be held December 3-6, 2019 in Boston, MA, for details see: http://cxc.harvard.edu/symposium_2019/ The schedule of targets for the next week is shown below and includes an observation of WISEJ2344-3056, which is part of a Director's Discretionary Time Target of Opportunity series which was accepted on Nov 30, and an observation of AT2019ahk, which was accepted as a Director's Discretionary Time Target of Opportunity on Apr 5 and is coordinated with ALMA and ATCA. |
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Radiation Belt
WISEJ2344-3056 ACIS-S
NGC1316 ACIS-S Apr 16
SN2005kl ACIS-S
A1795 ACIS-I
NGC4472ULXs ACIS-S
AT2019ahk ACIS-S Apr 17
NGC1316 ACIS-S
Radiation Belt Apr 18
A1795 ACIS-I
A1795 ACIS-S
ESO381-7 ACIS-S Apr 19
QJ0158-4325 ACIS-S
IGRJ17040-4305 ACIS-I
A1795 ACIS-I
NGC1316 ACIS-S Apr 20
A1795 ACIS-I
Radiation Belt Apr 21
MAMMOTH-1 ACIS-I------------------------------------------
All spacecraft subsystems continued to support nominal operations.
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Revised: July 08, 2022