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Operations CXO Status Report

Friday 25 March 2022 9.00am EST

During the last week Chandra completed the observing schedule as planned.

Of note this week was the release on Mar 24 of CalDB version 4.9.7. The CalDB update includes ACIS T_GAIN updates affecting observations since 2 May 2021 and ACIS focal plane temperature boundary condition upper and lower limit changes. For details see: https://cxc.harvard.edu/caldb/downloads/Release_notes/CALDB_v4.9.7.html

The schedule of targets for the next week is shown below and includes an observation of 4U1626-67 coordinated with IXPE.



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        PSZ2G315.56-37.04      ACIS-I       Mar 27
        SN2012au               ACIS-S
        KeplerSNR              ACIS-S/HETG  Mar 28
        GDH4                   ACIS-I
        PKS1136-135            ACIS-S
        4U1626-67              ACIS-S/HETG
        Radiation Belts                     Mar 29
        SPT-CLJ2316-5027       ACIS-I
        PSZ2G309.49+37.31      ACIS-I       Mar 30
        PKS1136-135            ACIS-S
        SPT-CLJ2316-5027       ACIS-I
        HR2142                 ACIS-S
        Abell2142              ACIS-I
        CMZMolecularCloud      ACIS-I       Mar 31
        A3562                  ACIS-I
        GDHIdp45               ACIS-I
        Radiation Belts                     Apr  1
        [PLP2016]188.073826    ACIS-S
        SDSSJ155912.34+48281   ACIS-S
        SPT-CLJ2215-3537       ACIS-S
        SDSSJ154446.34+41203   ACIS-S
        [PLP2016]188.073826    ACIS-S       Apr  2
        SDSSJ153913.46+3954    ACIS-S
        CMZMolecularCloud      ACIS-I
        GDH4                   ACIS-I
        GDHIdp45               ACIS-I
        WISEAJ125856.31-031    ACIS-S
        PSZ2G350.12+45.29      ACIS-I       Apr  3
        SPT-CLJ2215-3537       ACIS-S
        TOI2666                ACIS-S
        NGC3081                ACIS-S
        Radiation Belts

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All spacecraft subsystems except HRC continued to support nominal operations.

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