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Operations CXO Status Report
Friday 28 February 2003, 9.00am EST
During the last week the observing schedule was replanned to include
an observation of the Gamma Ray Burster GRB030226 that was accepted as
a 1 day turn-around Target Of Opportunity (TOO) on 26 Feb. An
observation of OH231.8+4.2 was impacted by the TOO and will be
rescheduled in a later load.
A current shift was observed in the output of Inertial Reference
Unit-1 (IRU-1) on 25 Feb. The shift, from 155mA to 130mA during a 6
hour period is among the largest seen during the mission so far,
however appears within family and conforms to occasional expected
behavior from the units. An associated small gyro bias shift was also
seen.
A Chandra press release was issued on 27 February that describes
observations of the pulsar B1957+20 (the "Black Widow") that reveals
the first direct evidence of an elongated cocoon of high-energy
particles. For details see:
http://chandra.harvard.edu/press/03_releases/press_022703.html
The observing schedule for next week is shown below and includes
observations of Cygnus X-1 coordinated with RXTE and NGC 2110
coordinated with XMM.
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SDSS J115115.38+003826.9ACIS-S Mar 2
DLS J1054-0549 ACIS-I
2MASSW J1207334-393254 ACIS-S Mar 3
Radiation Belts
4U 1905+000 ACIS-S/HETG Mar 4
Cygnus X-1 ACIS-S/HETG
NGC 2110 ACIS-S/HETG Mar 5
Radiation Belts Mar 6
TV CRT ACIS-S/HETG Mar 7
RCW103 ACIS-S Mar 8
2MASS135037-063216 ACIS-S
2MASS131704-173913 ACIS-S
NGC4691 ACIS-S
DLS J1055-0503 ACIS-I
A3556 ACIS-I
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All spacecraft subsystems, with the exception of MUPS thruster A-1 as
noted above, continued to operate nominally.
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