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Friday 9 July 2004 12:00am EDT
| During the last week the observing schedule was replanned to include
an observation of 1E 1048.1-5937 that was approved as a fast 3-day
turn-around Target Of Opportunity (TOO) on July 5 and an observation
of XRF040701 which was also approved as a TOO. Loads were replanned
and uplinked on July 7 for observing on July 8. Observations of
SCULPTOR DWARF SPH and HR 7329 B were impacted by the TOO and will be
rescheduled for a later load.
A real-time procedure was completed on July 8 to dump the contents of checksummed memory in the on-board computer in preparation for a recompilation of the flight software. The targets recommended for acceptance from the Cycle-6 Peer review were posted on July 2. For details see: http://cxc.harvard.edu/target_lists/ A Chandra press release was issued on July 6 describing observations of the Cloverleaf Quasar, a single object whose image has been reproduced four times in a cloverleaf-like arrangement through a process known as gravitational lensing. For details see: http://chandra.harvard.edu/press/04_releases/press_070604.html Of note was the release on July 7 of the CIAO 3.1 analysis software system together with CALDB 2.27. The release includes an update to the ACIS events processing tool to include a time-dependent gain adjustment. The observing schedule for next week is shown below and includes a TOO observation of V4641 Sgr and coordinated observations of NGC 6218 and the bulge of M31 with HST: |
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SCULPTOR DWARF SPH ACIS-S Jul 11 Mkn 421 ACIS-S/LETG Radiation Belts Jul 12 Mkn 421 (2 obs) ACIS-S/LETG Jul 13 1E 1048.1-5937 ACIS-S Jul 15 Radiation Belts PSR 0355+54 ACIS-S Jul 16 CL1213+0253 ACIS-I Jul 17 V4641 Sgr ACIS-S NGC 6218 ACIS-S M31-bulge ACIS-I XRF040701 ACIS-I
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All spacecraft subsystems continued to support nominal operations.
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