Friday 4 February 2022 9.00am EST
During the last week Chandra completed the observing schedule as planned. A real-time procedure was executed on Jan 31 to swap the prime solid-state recorder (SSR) from the B-side to the A-side. This swap concludes a six-month interval of health and trending data collection on SSR-B. Additional real-time procedures were executed on Feb 2 to perform a routine self-check of the Electrical Interface Assembly (EIA) Sequencer and to perform a diagnostic dump of the Control Processing Electronics (CPE). A Chandra image release was issued on Feb 2 presenting a new gallery of images combining X-ray data from Chandra with data from other telescopes. The objects range from a supernova remnant within the Milky Way to a galaxy cluster millions of light years away. This is a demonstration of how new telescopes like JWST and IXPE will work with other observatories to explore the Universe. For details see: https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2022/archives/ The schedule of targets for the next week is shown below and includes an observation of GRB 220101A, which was accepted as a Target of Opportunity on Jan 21 and is coordinated with HST. |
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Radiation Belts Feb 7 GRB220101A ACIS-S IRAS09104+4109 ACIS-S GRB220101A ACIS-S Feb 8 IRAS09104+4109 ACIS-S GRB220101A ACIS-S IRAS09104+4109 ACIS-S GRB220101A ACIS-S Feb 9 IRAS09104+4109 ACIS-S GRB220101A ACIS-S UGC3855 ACIS-S Radiation Belts Feb 10 CMZMolecularCloud ACIS-I MKN421 ACIS-S/LETG CMZMolecularCloud ACIS-I MKN421 ACIS-S/LETG CMZMolecularCloud ACIS-I Feb 11 ngc4631 ACIS-S CMZMolecularCloud ACIS-I NGC3081 ACIS-S NGC6300_s2 ACIS-S Feb 12 SDSSJ090531.07+03353 ACIS-S Radiation Belts CMZMolecularCloud ACIS-I Feb 13 MKN421 ACIS-S/LETG CMZMolecularCloud ACIS-I MKN421 ACIS-S/LETG PSZ2G067.52+34.75 ACIS-I MKN421 ACIS-S/LETG CGCG1822.3+2053 ACIS-S Feb 14 MKN421 ACIS-S/LETG
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All spacecraft subsystems continued to support nominal operations.
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