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Operations CXO Status Report

Friday 27 November 2020 9.00am EST

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

Chandra passed through the third and fourth eclipses of the season on Nov 22 and 25 respectively, with nominal power and thermal performance.

Real-time procedures were executed during each ground contact to reset the DSN Outage Dead Man Load.

Of note this week was the release on Nov 24 of version 2.0.1 of the Chandra Source Catalog. This updates intra-observation and inter-observation variability properties to resolve two issues detected in release 2.0. For details see: https://cxc.harvard.edu/.

The schedule of targets for the next week is shown below and includes an observation of Xi Boo coordinated with HST, an observation of eMACS J1823.1+7822 coordinated with HST, an observation of WR 140 coordinated with XMM, and an observation of 1A0535+262, which was accepted as a Target of Opportunity on Nov 13 and is coordinated with HST and NRAO.



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        4FGLJ1317.5-6316       ACIS-I       Nov 29
        WISEAJ040622.05+1152   ACIS-S       Nov 30
        Kapteyn'SStar          ACIS-S
        eMACSJ1823.1+7822      ACIS-I
        Radiation Belts
        2MASSJ04214586+2023    ACIS-S       Dec  1
        NGC6860                ACIS-S/HETG
        2MASSJ04214586+2023    ACIS-S
        NGC6860                ACIS-S/HETG
        2MASSJ04214586+2023    ACIS-S       Dec  2
        SN2001ig               ACIS-S
        WR140                  ACIS-S/HETG
        M33-South              ACIS-I
        2MASSJ04214586+2023    ACIS-S       Dec  3
        Radiation Belts
        1A0535+262             ACIS-S/HETG
        HZ43                   HRC-I /LETG
        XIBOO                  HRC-I        Dec  4
        A1795                  ACIS-I
        A1795                  ACIS-S
        WR140                  ACIS-S/HETG
        IRAS01475-0740         ACIS-S
        2MASSJ04214586+2023    ACIS-S
        IC1495                 ACIS-S       Dec  5
        WR140                  ACIS-S/HETG
        MCG-05.01.013          ACIS-S
        2MASSJ04214586+2023    ACIS-S
        Radiation Belts                     Dec  6
        2MASSJ04214586+2023    ACIS-S
        SDSSJ022105.64-04410   ACIS-S
        RBS797                 ACIS-S
        WR140                  ACIS-S/HETG  Dec  7

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All spacecraft subsystems continued to support nominal operations.

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