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Operations CXO Status Report
Friday 15 Aug 2003, 7.30am EDT
During the last week Chandra completed the observing schedule as
planned.
On 9 Aug Chandra completed the 6th and last eclipse of the Summer 2003
season with nominal power and thermal performance.
A Chandra image release of the Horseshoe nebula was made on Aug 14.
The image reveals hot gas flowing away from massive young stars in the
center of the nebula. For details see:
http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2003/m17/index.html
Of note was the release on Aug 6 of the CIAO 3.0 analysis software
system together with CALDB 2.23. This is a major infrastructure
release that includes a new port to MacOS X, a set of high priority
new tools and access to many of the CIAO modules via S-Lang to enhance
scripting capabilities for users. For details, see:
http://cxc.harvard.edu/ciao/
The observing schedule for next week is shown below and includes a
30Ks observation of the TOO Her X-1.
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HCG80 ACIS-S Aug 18
MACS1423.8+2404 ACIS-S
NGC5005 ACIS-S Aug 19
NGC 5204 X-1 ACIS-S
Radiation Belts
Vela Pulsar (2 obs) ACIS-S Aug 20
A1118-616 ACIS-S Aug 21
W50-WEST ACIS-I
MACS-J1621.3+3810 ACIS-I Aug 22
Radiation Belts
SDSS J002305-010743.5 ACIS-S Aug 23
MACS-J0257.1-2325 ACIS-I
RCW 49 ACIS-I
G293.8+0.6 ACIS-S Aug 24
SC1327-312 ACIS-I
Her X-1 ACIS-S/HETG
SDSS J031427-011152.4 ACIS-S Aug 25
SDSS J002752+002615.8 ACIS-S
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All spacecraft subsystems, with the exception of the MUPS thruster A-1
under investigation, continued to operate nominally.
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