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Operations CXO Status Report

Friday 26 April 2019 9.00am EDT

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

Real-time procedures were executed on Apr 20, Apr 23, and Apr 26 to perform full-frame dark current readouts of the Aspect Camera Assembly CCD.

The schedule of targets for the next week is shown below and includes an observation of MAXIJ1820+070, which was accepted as a target of opportunity on Apr 18 and is coordinated with VLA, an observation of SDSSJ1226-0011, which was accepted as a target of opportunity on Apr 10, an observation of ProximaCentauri, which was accepted as a Director's Discretionary Time Target of Opportunity on Apr 08 and is coordinated with ALMA, TESS, HST, SWIFT, and several ground-based optical observatories, and an observation of GRS1915+105, which was accepted as a Director's Discretionary Time Target of Opportunity on Apr 25.



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       Radiation Belts
        CentaurusA             ACIS-I
        MRC1232-249            ACIS-S
        Cen_X4_s3              ACIS-S
        Cen_X4_s4              ACIS-S
        MRC1217-209            ACIS-S
        PSS1326+0743           ACIS-S       Apr 30
        MAXIJ1820+070          ACIS-S/HETG
        GRS1915+105            ACIS-S/HETG
        NGC1502                ACIS-I
        Radiation Belts                     May  1
        X-CLASS18353C61.1      ACIS-I
        eMACSJ1341.9-2442      ACIS-I       May  2
        SDSS_J135225.80+1328   ACIS-S
        X-CLASS18353C61.1      ACIS-I
        ProximaCentauri        ACIS-S/HETG  May  3
        eMACSJ1341.9-2442      ACIS-I
        SDSSJ1226-0011         ACIS-S
        Cen_X4_s2              ACIS-S
        Radiation Belts                     May  4
        X-CLASS18353C61.1      ACIS-I
        SDSSJ1226-0011         ACIS-S
        Cen_X4_s6              ACIS-S       May  5
        X-CLASS18353C61.1      ACIS-I
        NGC5548                ACIS-S/HETG
        SDSSJ1226-0011         ACIS-S

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All spacecraft subsystems continued to support nominal operations.

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