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Operations CXO Status Report

Friday 26 September 2014 9.00am EDT

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

Of note this week was the release on Sep 24 of version 4.6.6 of the Contributed Scripts and Modules package. Included in the package were new scripts and modules for support of XSpec user-models in Sherpa, as well as fixes and updates to several existing scripts. For details see: http://cxc.harvard.edu/ciao/news.html

The schedule of targets for the next week is shown below and includes an observation of IGR J17451-3022, which was accepted as a Target of Opportunity on Sep 16.



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        IGRJ11014-6103         ACIS-I       Sep 29
        IGRJ17451-3022         HRC-S
        RXJ1856.5-3754         ACIS-S/LETG
        HD93030                ACIS-S/HETG
        Radiation Belts                     Sep 30
        47Tuc                  ACIS-S
        ChandraDeepField-S     ACIS-I       Oct  1
        IGRJ11014-6103         ACIS-I
        47Tuc                  ACIS-S       Oct  2
        IGRJ11014-6103         ACIS-I
        ChandraDeepField-S     ACIS-I
        Radiation Belts                     Oct  3
        ChandraDeepField-S     ACIS-I
        NGC682                 ACIS-S       Oct  4
        J002434.9+325842       ACIS-S
        HD206267               ACIS-S/HETG  Oct  5

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All spacecraft subsystems continued to support nominal operations.

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