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Operations CXO Status Report

Friday 23 July 2010 9.00am EDT

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

A real-time procedure was executed on Jul 22 to update the on-board ephemeris.

A Chandra press release was issued on Jul 21 describing evidence that the spin axis of the supermassive black hole in the galaxy 4C+00.58 has been changed twice. This discovery, made with data from Chandra and the VLA, might explain several mysterious-looking objects found throughout the Universe. For details see: http://chandra.harvard.edu/press/10_releases/press_072110.html

Of note this week was the release of CIAO 4.2 Sherpa version 2 on Jul 19.

The schedule of targets for the next week is shown below and includes observations of GX13+1 coordinated with RXTE and an observation of TOO_XTEJ1752-223 coordinated with the VLA.

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TOO_XTEJ1752-223       ACIS-S       Jul 26
[RC2]A1228+12          ACIS-S       
VelaPWN                ACIS-S       
St34                   ACIS-S       Jul 27
Radiation Belts                     
QJ0158-4325            ACIS-S       Jul 28
HELLAS2XMM05370175     ACIS-S       
NGC4030                ACIS-S       
SDSSJ122711.67+6306    ACIS-S       
IRAS14026+4341         ACIS-S       
A1622                  ACIS-I       
SDSSJ125359.62+4627    ACIS-S       
TWA6                   ACIS-S       
M82-SE                 ACIS-S       Jul 29
Radiation Belts                     Jul 30
GX13+1                 ACIS-S/HETG  
HESSJ1800-240BX-r      ACIS-I       
PGC135829              ACIS-S       Jul 31
GX13+1                 ACIS-S/HETG  Aug  1
EN1-240                ACIS-S 

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All spacecraft subsystems continued to support nominal operations.

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