Friday 3 December 2021 9.00am EST
During the last week Chandra completed the observing schedule as planned. Chandra passed through the twelfth, thirteenth, and fourteenth eclipses of the season on Nov 27, Nov 30, and Dec 03 respectively, with nominal power and thermal performance. Real-time procedures were executed on Dec 1 to perform a routine self-check of the Electrical Interface Assembly (EIA) Sequencer and to perform a diagnostic dump of the Control Processing Electronics (CPE). Of note this week, summary X-ray properties from the Chandra Source Catalog (CSC) version 2.0.1, which provides information on 317,167 unique X-ray sources detected with Chandra during its first 15 years of operations, have been integrated into the NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED). This makes the benefits of NED queries -- positional crossmatch and cross-identification with existing sources, homogeneous multi-wavelength photometry and spectral energy distribution, redshift, classification, distance and other source properties -- available for the exploration of CSC sources. For more details, see https://cxc.cfa.harvard.edu/csc/ The schedule of targets for the next week is shown below and includes observations of GW170817 coordinated with VLA. |
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Radiation Belts Dec 5 NGC1589 ACIS-S Dec 6 FRB190608 ACIS-S NGC253 ACIS-I TAP26 ACIS-S GW170817 ACIS-S Dec 7 Sh2-284 ACIS-I HZ43 HRC-I /LETG [RCD2020]J142.91008 ACIS-S Radiation Belts Dec 8 GW170817 ACIS-S FYCMa ACIS-S Dec 9 WISEJ041010.60-0913 ACIS-S SPT-CLJ2355-6002 ACIS-I WISEJ041010.60-0913 ACIS-S AntliaClusterSE ACIS-I SN2012ap ACIS-S 2RXSJ055423.4+20163 HRC-S /LETG Dec 10 GW170817 ACIS-S MOOJ1059+5454 ACIS-I Radiation Belts Dec 11 TAP26 ACIS-S MOOJ1059+5454 ACIS-I 2RXSJ055423.4+20163 HRC-S /LETG GW170817 ACIS-S Dec 12 SDSSJ104754.58+6213 ACIS-S MOOJ1059+5454 ACIS-I
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All spacecraft subsystems continued to support nominal operations.
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