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Operations CXO Status Report

Friday 10 July 2020 9.00am EDT

During the last week Chandra completed the observing schedule as planned.

Real-time procedures were executed during each ground contact to reset the DSN Outage Dead Man Load.

Of note this week was the release on Jul 9 of CalDB version 4.9.2.1. The CALDB update includes an upgrade of the ACIS T_Gain library and changes to the ACIS focal plane temperature calibration. Also included are updates to the HRC-S time-dependent gain maps, the HRC-S time-dependent quantum efficiency corrections, and the HRC-I quantum efficiency library. For details see: http://cxc.harvard.edu/caldb/downloads/Release_notes/CALDB_v4.9.2.html and http://cxc.harvard.edu/caldb/downloads/Release_notes/CALDB_v4.9.2.1.html

In addition, due to the current circumstances, the science workshop on Chandra Frontiers in Time-Domain Science will transition to a series of virtual topical sessions and panels throughout the Fall 2020.

The schedule of targets for the next week is shown below.



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        N132D                  ACIS-S       Jul 12
        Radiation Belt                      Jul 13
        IC342NW                ACIS-I
        CasA                   ACIS-I       Jul 14
        CasA                   ACIS-I
        CasA                   ACIS-I
        CasA                   ACIS-I
        CasA                   ACIS-I
        CasA                   ACIS-I
        CasA                   ACIS-I
        CasA                   ACIS-I
        CasA                   ACIS-I
        GLIMPSE-C01            ACIS-I
        H1821+643              ACIS-S
        G1.9+0.3               ACIS-S       Jul 15
        Radiation Belt                      Jul 16
        V1223Sgr               ACIS-S/HETG
        N132D                  ACIS-S
        V1223Sgr               ACIS-S/HETG  Jul 17
        Westerlund1            ACIS-I
        H1821+643              ACIS-S
        G1.9+0.3               ACIS-S       Jul 18
        Radiation Belt
        H1821+643              ACIS-S       Jul 19

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All spacecraft subsystems continued to support nominal operations.

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