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Operations CXO Status Report

Friday 6 March 2015 9.00am EDT

During the last week the observing schedule was replanned to incorporate an observation of [PFH2005] 622, which was accepted as a Director's Discretionary Time Target of Opportunity on Mar 4. Loads for the replanned schedule were uplinked on Mar 5. A portion of a scheduled observation of RCW38/IRS2 was impacted by the replan and will be rescheduled in a future week.

A real-time procedure was executed on Mar 4 to perform a routine self-check of the Electrical Interface Assembly (EIA) Sequencer.

A Chandra press release was issued on Mar 4 as a NASA press release describing observations of over 200 galaxy clusters. The new research shows how an unusual form of cosmic precipitation can affect the growth and evolution of galaxies. These results provide evidence that this precipitation can slow down star formation in galaxies with giant black holes. For details see: http://chandra.si.edu/press/15_releases/press_030415.html

The schedule of targets for the next two weeks is shown below and includes an observation of GRS 1915+105, which was accepted as a Target of Opportunity on Feb 17, and an observation of SDSS J0936+0046 coordinated with ground-based observatories.



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        Radiation Belts                     Mar  8
        CIZAJ2242.8+4301SO     ACIS-I
        ArLac                  HRC-I
        Abell1795outskirts     ACIS-I
        HZ43                   HRC-I/LETG   Mar  9
        NGC4968                ACIS-S
        Abell1664              ACIS-S       Mar 10
        Radiation Belts
        ZwCl1234.0+02916       ACIS-S       Mar 11
        Radiation Belts                     Mar 13
        NGC5133                ACIS-S
        CentaurusA             ACIS-I       Mar 14
        SN1987A                HRC-S/LETG
        Abell1664              ACIS-S
        Abell1882-Filament     ACIS-I       Mar 15
        Radiation Belts                     Mar 16
        SDSSJ0936+0046         ACIS-S
        ChandraDeepField-S     ACIS-I
        ZwCl0008.8+5215EAS     ACIS-I       Mar 17
        BRC2                   ACIS-I
        GRS1915+105            ACIS-S/HETG
        M87                    ACIS-S
        NGC5033                ACIS-I       Mar 18
        Radiation Belts
        ChandraDeepField-S     ACIS-I       Mar 19
        HAT-P-11               ACIS-S
        Abell1795outskir(2obs) ACIS-I
        Radiation Belts                     Mar 21
        ChandraDeepField-S     ACIS-I
        2FGLJ1839.0-0102       ACIS-I       Mar 22
        PSS1323-0021           ACIS-S

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All spacecraft subsystems continued to support nominal operations.

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