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Operations CXO Status Report

Friday 15 November 2019 9.00am EST

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

A real-time procedure was executed Nov 10 to perform full-frame dark current readouts of the Aspect Camera Assembly CCD. Additional real-time procedures were executed Nov 13 to turn on SPE-B and gyro B2 in order to provide rate data from which to evaluate the longer-term performance of the reserve gyro B2.

Of note this week was the announcement on Nov 8 of CalDB version 4.8.5. The CALDB update includes a new version of the ACIS contamination model. For details see: http://cxc.harvard.edu/caldb/downloads/Release_notes/CALDB_v4.8.5.html

The schedule of targets for the next week is shown below and includes observations of Maffei 1 coordinated with NuStar, and observations of AT2019pev, which are follow-ups to a Target of Opportunity which was accepted on Oct 2.



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       3CR454.2               ACIS-S       Nov 17
        3CR91                  ACIS-S
        Radiation Belts                     Nov 18
        Spiderweb              ACIS-S
        Maffei1                ACIS-I       Nov 19
        HZ43                   HRC-S /LETG
        HZ43                   HRC-I /LETG
        HR1099                 HRC-I /HETG  Nov 20
        HR1099                 HRC-I
        HR1099                 HRC-S /LETG
        4FGLJ1910.7-5320       ACIS-S
        Maffei1                ACIS-I
        Radiation Belts                     Nov 21
        HD97950C               ACIS-S/HETG
        HD20794                ACIS-S
        AT2019pev              HRC-S /LETG  Nov 22
        HD97950C               ACIS-S/HETG
        AT2019pev              HRC-S /LETG
        ESO549-50              ACIS-S       Nov 23
        Radiation Belts
        Maffei1                ACIS-I       Nov 24
        HD97950C               ACIS-S/HETG
        AT2019pev              HRC-S /LETG

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All spacecraft subsystems continued to support nominal operations.

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