Friday 15 March 2002 8.00am EST
| During the last week the observing schedule was replanned twice to include two observations accepted as Targets Of Opportunity (TOO). The X-ray transient RX J170930.2-263927 was accepted on 11 March and observed on 12 March, and the supernova SN20020B was accepted on 12 March and observed on 14 March. Observations of IRAS20051-1117, PSS 0958+0740 and FTM0738+2750 were impacted by the TOOs and will be observed in a later schedule.
Real-time procedures were completed nominally on 12 March to update the spacecraft ephemeris and on 14 March to perform a charge injection test with ACIS. A press release was issued on March 13 announcing that the "twin" quasars Q2345+007 A,B previously considered to be an optical illusion, are now thought to have been produced by merging galaxies. For details see: http://chandra.harvard.edu/press/02_releases/press_031302.html. Of note this week is the deadline for submission of Chandra cycle 4 proposals a 19:00 EST on March 15. The observing schedule for the next week is shown below and includes a follow-up observation of the TOO RX J170930.2-263927 and a phase constrained observation of Cgynus X-1. |
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GRS 1758-258 ACIS-S/HETG Mar 17 RX J170930.2-263927 ACIS-S Mar 18 Cyg X-1 ACIS-S/HETG A2259 ACIS-I IC 342 X-1 ACIS-S L1527 ACIS-I IRAS 18325-5926 ACIS-S/HETG Mar 19 Radiation Belts NGC 4038/NGC 4039 ACIS-S Mar 20 3C 279 ACIS-S/HETG Mar 21 Radiation Belts Mar 22 MACS-J1115.2+5320 ACIS-I HS 0830+1833 ACIS-S Mar 23 HS 0854+0915 ACIS-S Q1231+481 ACIS-S SGR A* ACIS-I IRAS 18325-5926 ACIS-S/HETG SC 1120-1202 ACIS-I Mar 24
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All spacecraft subsystems continued to operate nominally.
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