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Operations CXO Status Report
Friday 6/1/01 9.00am EDT
During the last week, Chandra completed the observing schedule
as planned.
Of note during the week was the transfer to operations of the
new version of the Off Line System (9.1B) on 30 May. The
transition was nominal and work has begun on scheduling the
week of June 11, the first to be planned using the new
software.
A press release was issued on 29 May describing the first
detailed study of a class of quasar that is shrouded in clouds
of gas and dust flowing outward at high velocity (millions of
miles per hour). The result supports the idea that the outflow
feature is common to all quasars. For full details see:
http://chandra.harvard.edu/press/01_releases/press_052901.html.
Further Chandra press releases are planned for next week in
conjunction with the American Astronomical Society meeting in
Pasadena, CA.
The planned observations for the coming week are shown below
and include a series of monitoring observations of the nucleus
of M31 coordinated with the Hubble Space Telescope.
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NGC 4559 X-1 ACIS-S Jun 3
A1060 ACIS-I Jun 4
Radiation Belts
HD104237 ACIS-I Jun 5
E0102-72 (multiple) ACIS-I
SNR G54.1+0.3 ACIS-S Jun 6
Radiation Belts Jun 7
PKS1404-257 ACIS-S
A1664 ACIS-S
1WGA_J1420.0+0625 ACIS-S
NGC4388 ACIS-S Jun 8
XMM 13HR - Fields (4) ACIS-I
Radiation Belts Jun 9
3C9 ACIS-S Jun 10
M31 - Center ACIS-I
M31 - (multiple) HRC-I
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All spacecraft subsystems continued to operate nominally.
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