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Operations CXO Status Report

Friday 15 February 2008 8.00am EST

During the last week the observing schedule was replanned to include an observations of GRB 080207 (Dark-GRB1) that was accepted as a fast turn-around Target Of Opportunity (TOO) on Feb 11. Loads were replanned and uplinked on Feb 14 for an observation on Feb 16. An observation of the Carina South Pillar was impacted by the TOO and will be rescheduled in a later load.

A real-time procedure was completed on Feb 13 to update the on-board Ephemeris.

A Chandra press release was issued on Feb 13 describing the possible detection of a binary star system that was later destroyed in a supernova explosion. For further details see: http://chandra.harvard.edu/press/08_releases/press_021308.html

The schedule of (many) targets for the next week is shown below and includes an observation of 2MASS J0746425+200032 coordinated with the VLA.

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Radiation Belts                     Feb 18
UGC 4203               ACIS-S
UGC 4203               ACIS-S
RX J1131231            ACIS-S
Carina South Pillars   ACIS-I       Feb 19
H 1743-322             ACIS-S/HETG
1619, 1242, 784, 1537  ACIS-S
778, 828, 1250, 1630   ACIS-S
AX J184008-0543        ACIS-S       Feb 20
AX J181852559          ACIS-S
IGR J18483-0311        HRC-I
IGR J18485-0047        ACIS-I
IGR J18308232          ACIS-I
XTE J181097            ACIS-I
Radiation Belts
NGC 4236               ACIS-I
S03                    ACIS-S       Feb 21
1440, 1146, 1025, 1303 ACIS-S
1327, 1125, 1283, 1261 ACIS-S
698, 1422, 575, 1355   ACIS-S
1087, 1861, 437        ACIS-S
3C381                  ACIS-S
3C303.1                ACIS-S
2MASS J0746425+20003   ACIS-I
SDSS J123411.73+6158   ACIS-S       Feb 23
Radiation Belts
543, 1431, 1528, 1695  ACIS-S       Feb 24
200, 571, 1488, 1499   ACIS-S
1545, 1192, 1075, 1948 ACIS-S
1627, 230, 1993, 1828  ACIS-S
1886, 1743, 1539, 1185 ACIS-S       Feb 25
1826, 1512, 1489, 944  ACIS-S
856, 1407              ACIS-S
H1743-322              HRC-I

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All spacecraft subsystems continued to support nominal operations.

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