Friday 25 June 2021 9.00am EDT
During the last week Chandra completed the observing schedule as planned. A Chandra image release was issued on Jun 24 featuring the motions of the supernova remnant MSH 15-52 which have been measured for the first time, using the Chandra X-ray Observatory. The blast wave and debris from an exploded star are seen moving away from the explosion site and colliding with a wall of surrounding gas. Images from 2004-2018 show the blast wave moving at about 4,000 km/sec. For details, see: https://chandra.si.edu/photo/2021/msh1552/ The schedule of targets for next week is shown below and includes an observation of MAXI J1348-630, which was accepted as a Director's Discretionary Time Target of Opportunity on May 14, and an observation of eRASSt J234403.0-352640, which was accepted as a Target of Opportunity on May 11. |
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MAXIJ1348-630 ACIS-S Jun 28 JWST-DTDF-1 ACIS-I GX17+2 ACIS-S/HETG SN2013ff ACIS-S Jun 29 JWST-DTDF-1 ACIS-I Radiation Belts Jun 30 MKN421 ACIS-S/HETG MKN421 ACIS-S/LETG MKN421 HRC-S /LETG MKN421 ACIS-S/LETG MKN421 HRC-S /LETG MKN421 ACIS-S/LETG MKN421 HRC-S /LETG MKN421 ACIS-S/HETG A1889SE ACIS-I Jul 1 NGC253 ACIS-I eRASStJ234403.0-352 ACIS-S TOI1130 ACIS-S GDH1 ACIS-I GDH1 ACIS-I GDH1 ACIS-I GDH1 ACIS-I SN2012cw ACIS-S GDH1 ACIS-I Westerlund1 ACIS-I Jul 2 [DAG2016]PSZ1-ARCG ACIS-S Radiation Belts MKN421 ACIS-S/HETG Jul 3 MKN421 ACIS-S/LETG MKN421 HRC-S /LETG MKN421 ACIS-S/LETG MKN421 HRC-S /LETG MKN421 ACIS-S/LETG MKN421 HRC-S /LETG MKN421 ACIS-S/HETG J115342.81+483844.4 ACIS-S SS433 ACIS-S/HETG PSRB2224+65 ACIS-I Jul 4 SS433 ACIS-S/HETG
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All spacecraft subsystems continued to support nominal operations.
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