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Operations CXO Status Report

Friday 11 December 2015 9.00am EST

During the last week the observing schedule was replanned to incorporate an observation of HD97658, which was accepted as a Director's Discretionary Time Target of Opportunity on Dec 3 and is coordinated with HST.

A Chandra image release was issued on Dec 10 describing observations of IC 443, also known as the Jellyfish Nebula, a supernova remnant about 5,000 light years from Earth. Astronomers have been looking for the spinning neutron star, or pulsar, from the explosion that created the remnant. New Chandra observations have likely spotted a pulsar on the southern edge the Jellyfish Nebula. The X-ray data also provide new details about the structure and properties of this pulsar. For details see: http://chandra.si.edu/photo/2015/ic443/

The schedule of targets for the next two weeks (including the replanned portion of this week's schedule) is shown below and includes observations of GRB150518A and ASASSN-15lh, which are Target of Opportunity follow-ups accepted on Sep 9 and Oct 19 respectively, and observations of 2MASS J04123491+3529592 and 2MASSi J0733092+455506 coordinated with ground-based observatories and NuSTAR respectively.



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        Radiation Belts                     Dec 11
        30Doradus              ACIS-I
        HD97658                ACIS-S
        Perseuscluster (6 obs) ACIS-I
        B30254+434             ACIS-S
        SDSSJ090128.28+3238    ACIS-S
        LGG72                  ACIS-I
        ChandraDeepField-S     ACIS-I
        ASASSN-15lh            ACIS-S       Dec 13
        Radiation Belts
        30Doradus              ACIS-I
        HE0351+0240            ACIS-S       Dec 14
        RXCJ0151.6-2900        ACIS-I
        3CR124                 ACIS-S       Dec 15
        HE0351+0240            ACIS-S
        Radiation Belts                     Dec 16
        IC348                  ACIS-S/HETG
        3CR194                 ACIS-S       Dec 17
        SDSSJ0800+3917         ACIS-S
        MKN421                 ACIS-S/LETG
        J0807                  ACIS-S       Dec 18
        IC348                  ACIS-S/HETG
        Radiation Belts                     Dec 19
        MKN421                 ACIS-S/LETG
        SDSSJ081333.32+3508    ACIS-S
        3CR119                 ACIS-S
        J0752                  ACIS-S       Dec 20
        CSWA4                  ACIS-S
        CSWA11                 ACIS-S
        RXCJ082814.5+415359    ACIS-I
        GRB150518A             ACIS-S
        3CR300.1               ACIS-S       Dec 21
        Radiation Belts
        30Doradus              ACIS-I
        SDSSJ0826+0542         ACIS-S       Dec 22
        2MASSJ04123491+3529    ACIS-S
        LGG72                  ACIS-I
        ALP-PER                HRC-I
        SDSSJ212329.46-0050    ACIS-S
        PSRJ1640+2224          ACIS-S       Dec 23
        Radiation Belts                     Dec 24
        LGG72                  ACIS-I
        IC348                  ACIS-S/HETG
        2MASSiJ0733092+4555    ACIS-S       Dec 25
        MKN421                 ACIS-S/LETG
        NGC5643                ACIS-S       Dec 26
        Radiation Belts

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All spacecraft subsystems continued to support nominal operations.

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