Friday 21 June 2024 9.00am EDT
During the last week Chandra completed the observing schedule as planned. Chandra press and image releases were issued on Jun 20 describing a study of 70 young neutron stars based on data from Chandra and from XMM-Newton, with the fundamental goal of advancing our understanding of the composition and properties of neutron star interiors. The analysis identified three neutron stars --- likely more massive than typical for the rest --- with surfaces substantially cooler than the surfaces of others of similar age. The rate of cooling depends on the interior states and composition of the neutron stars and can be used to support or exclude various possible models of the interiors. For details, see https://chandra.harvard.edu/press/24_releases/press_062024.html The schedule of targets for the next week is shown below and includes an observation of SS433 coordinated with Swift. |
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Radiation Belts Jun 23
SDSSJ214654.04+2354 ACIS-S
LMCDeepField08 ACIS-I Jun 24
m28 HRC-S
LMCDeepField05 ACIS-I
m28 HRC-S Jun 25
J0038 ACIS-S
SS433 HRC-I
PSZ2G083.14+66.57 ACIS-I Jun 26
Radiation Belts
XMMJ0.173-0.413 ACIS-I
SDSSJ111800.50+1958 ACIS-S
CMZMolecularCloud ACIS-I Jun 27
PSZ2G268.30+28.89 ACIS-I
V1460Her ACIS-S
ArLac (10 obs) HRC-I
A1795 ACIS-I
A1795 ACIS-I Jun 28
ArLac HRC-S
LMCDeepField01 ACIS-I
Radiation Belts Jun 29
A1795 ACIS-I
m28 HRC-S
LMCDeepField01 ACIS-I
XMMJ0.173-0.413 ACIS-I Jun 30
CMZMolecularCloud ACIS-I
ESO436-34 ACIS-S
m28 HRC-S
PKS0921-213 ACIS-S
CMZMolecularCloud ACIS-I------------------------------------------
All spacecraft subsystems continued to support nominal operations.
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Revised: July 08, 2022