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Operations CXO Status Report

Friday 9 June 2023 9.00am EDT

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

Real-time procedures were executed on Jun 7 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).

A Chandra image release was issued on Jun 6 describing observations of the galaxy NGC 4839 by Chandra, XMM-Newton, and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The data show that as the galaxy NGC 4839 moves toward the center of the Coma cluster, the hot gas in the galaxy group is stripped away by its collision with gas in the cluster. This results in a tail forming behind the galaxy group. For details see: https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2023/ngc4839/

The schedule of targets for the next week is shown below and includes observations of AT2023fhn, which are follow-ups to a Target of Opportunity accepted on Apr 21.



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        TrifidNebula           ACIS-S/HETG  Jun 12
        S82X-1058              ACIS-I
        SDSSJ233833.96-09003   ACIS-S
        GX9+1                  ACIS-S/HETG
        QSOJ0041-4936          ACIS-I       Jun 13
        [MCA2018]SPTJ2349-     ACIS-S
        Radiation Belts                     Jun 14
        SWIFTJ1648.6-2313      ACIS-I
        AT2023fhn              ACIS-S
        SWIFTJ1641.4-2010      ACIS-I
        AT2023fhn              ACIS-S
        GAIADR241310170942     ACIS-S       Jun 15
        AT2023fhn              ACIS-S
        GAIADR241310170942     ACIS-S
        AT2023fhn              ACIS-S
        GAIADR241310170942     ACIS-S
        NGC3245                HRC-I
        ngc4631                ACIS-S       Jun 16
        NGC5005                ACIS-S
        Radiation Belts                     Jun 17
        MKN421                 ACIS-S/LETG
        M87                    HRC-I
        2MASXJ17064791-1541    ACIS-S
        MKN421                 ACIS-S/LETG
        JWST-DTDF-1            ACIS-I
        NGC5005                ACIS-S       Jun 18
        2RXSJ171910.9-11072    ACIS-S
        MKN421                 ACIS-S/LETG
        LMCN132D               HRC-I
        [MCA2018]SPTJ2349-     ACIS-S

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All spacecraft subsystems continued to support nominal operations.

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