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------------------------------------------
All spacecraft subsystems continued to support nominal operations.
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Revised: July 08, 2022