Friday 4 December 2020 9.00am EDT
During the last week Chandra completed the observing schedule as planned. Chandra passed through the fifth, sixth, and seventh eclipses of the season on Nov 28, Nov 30, and Dec 3 respectively, with nominal power and thermal performance. Real-time procedures were executed on Dec 2 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). Additional real-time procedures were executed during each ground contact to reset the DSN Outage Dead Man Load. Chandra image releases were issued on Nov 30 featuring "sonified" representations of data on three extensively-studied, iconic cosmic objects: the Bullet Cluster, the Crab Nebula, and Supernova 1987A. The sonifications, made by combining data from Chandra with additional data from Hubble, Spitzer, and ground-based telescopes, represent astronomical information conventionally presented visually instead by a succession of sounds. For details, see: https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2020/sonify2/ The schedule of targets for the next week is shown below and includes an observations of GW170817 coordinated with the VLA. |
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2RXSJ043116.0+42171 ACIS-S Dec 7 RWAur ACIS-S NGC2336-N ACIS-S NGC5899 ACIS-S RWAur ACIS-S NGC2336-N ACIS-S Radiation Belts Dec 8 GW170817 ACIS-S SPT0348-62 ACIS-I Dec 9 OrionNebulaCluster ACIS-S/HETG WR52 ACIS-S Dec 10 OrionNebulaCluster ACIS-S/HETG HD62850 HRC-I NGC2336-S ACIS-S Radiation Belts Dec 11 GW170817 ACIS-S HD41004 HRC-I OrionNebulaCluster ACIS-S/HETG HD38459 HRC-I Dec 12 GW170817 ACIS-S NGC2336-S ACIS-S RWAur ACIS-S HD180712 HRC-I Dec 13 GW170817 ACIS-S NGC2336-S ACIS-S Radiation Belts
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All spacecraft subsystems continued to support nominal operations.
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