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Operations CXO Status Report

Friday 12 June 2015 9.00am EDT

During the last week the observing schedule was replanned twice, first to incorporate an observation of GRS1915+105, which was accepted as a Target of Opportunity on Jun 4, and then to incorporate an observation of H1743-322, which was accepted as a Target of Opportunity on Jun 8. Scheduled observations of NGC5044 and Kes73 were impacted by the replans and will be rescheduled in future weeks.

A Chandra image release was issued on Jun 10 describing observations of NGC 5813 that show evidence for serial black hole eruptions. NGC 5813 is a group of galaxies that is immersed in a reservoir of X-ray emitting hot gas. Cavities that are seen in the hot gas give information about prior active phases of the central supermassive black hole. For details see: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2015/ngc5813/

The schedule of targets for the next two weeks is shown below and includes an observation of M82, which was accepted as a Director's Discretionary Time Target of Opportunity on Jun 5, and observations of GJ436 coordinated with HST:



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        2FGLJ1615.0-5051       ACIS-I       Jun 15
        ChandraDeepField-S     ACIS-I       Jun 16
        Radiation Belts                     Jun 17
        RXCJ1516.3-2737        ACIS-I
        NGC5995                ACIS-S
        SDSSJ154859.72+3418    ACIS-S
        RXCJ1504.1-0248        ACIS-I
        SPT-CLJ0313-5334       ACIS-I       Jun 18
        HESSJ1616-508          ACIS-I
        [HP99]456              ACIS-S
        Radiation Belts                     Jun 19
        HESSJ1616-508          ACIS-I
        ChandraDeepField-S     ACIS-I       Jun 20
        M82                    ACIS-I       Jun 21
        IC1802                 ACIS-S
        NGC6587                ACIS-S
        Radiation Belts                     Jun 22
        NGC1232                ACIS-I
        UGC1859                ACIS-S
        V794Aql                ACIS-S/HETG  Jun 23
        J024656.39-003304.8    ACIS-S       Jun 24
        Radiation Belts
        GJ436                  ACIS-S       Jun 25
        RCW86NE                ACIS-S
        GJ436                  ACIS-S       Jun 26
        NGC5903                ACIS-S
        Radiation Belts                     Jun 27
        [HP99]456              ACIS-S
        NGC5903                ACIS-S       Jun 28
        SDSSJ1034+0720         ACIS-S       Jun 29
        Mrk22                  ACIS-S
        Abell1882-Filament     ACIS-I
        Radiation Belts

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All spacecraft subsystems continued to support nominal operations.

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