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Friday 12 January 2007 11.00 am EDT
| During the last week Chandra completed the observing schedule as
planned.
Chandra passed through the 4th, 5th and final 6th eclipse of the 2007 Winter season on Jan 6, 9 and 11 respectively. Telemetry indicated nominal power and thermal performance in all cases. An Aspect Camera dark current calibration was performed from the on-board loads on Jan 5. Assessment of the data indicated an expected rate of increase in warm pixels. Chandra press releases were issued on Jan 4 and Jan 10 in conjunction with the AAS meeting in Seattle. The Jan 4 release described Chandra data that provide evidence for a possible new class of supernova and the Jan 10 release discussed the detection of a light echo from Sgr A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy. For details see: http://chandra.harvard.edu/press/07_releases/press_010407.html http://chandra.harvard.edu/press/07_releases/press_011007.html The schedule of targets for next week is shown below and includes includes an observation of 3C273 coordinated with Spitzer. |
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Capella HRC-I Jan 14 Capella (3 obs) HRC-S 3C273 ACIS-S/HETG Jan 15 IRAS 20032+3212 ACIS-S Radiation Belts Jan 16 Betelgeuse HRC-S Jan 17 Capella (11 obs) HRC-I RX J0529.4+0041 ACIS-I Radiation Belts Jan 18 SNR 1987A ACIS-S Jan 19 C-COSMOS1-4 ACIS-I Jan 20 Capella (3 obs) HRC-I NGC 4190-ULX1 HRC-I Mkn 421 HRC-S/LETG Jan 21 Capella (2 obs) HRC-I
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All spacecraft subsystems continued to support nominal operations.
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