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Operations CXO Status Report

Friday 23 April 2021 9.00am EDT

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

Of note this week was the Chandra Quarterly Review conducted on Apr 21.

A Chandra press release was issued on Apr 21 describing Chandra observations of the supernova remnant Cassiopeia A in which an important type of titanium was detected. This titanium is predicted to form in bubbles that drive the explosion of a massive star after its fuel is depleted and it implodes. The detection of such titanium provides strong support for a class of supernova explosion studied in computer simulations. For details see: https://chandra.harvard.edu/press/21_releases/press_042121.html

The schedule of targets for the next week is shown below and includes an observation of SN2020ywx, which was accepted as a Target of Opportunity on Apr 7, and an observation of RAqr coordinated with HST.



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        M82X-2                 HRC-I        Apr 26
        A1795                  ACIS-S
        G104.52+01.24          ACIS-I
        3c297                  ACIS-S       Apr 27
        H1821+643              HRC-S /LETG
        Radiation Belts                     Apr 28
        A1795                  ACIS-I
        H1821+643              HRC-S /LETG
        A1795                  ACIS-S
        A1795                  ACIS-S       Apr 29
        NGC1365                ACIS-S/HETG
        QSOB1402+044           ACIS-S
        2XRSJ154634.6-17142    ACIS-I
        RAqr                   ACIS-S
        Radiation Belts                     Apr 30
        RAqr                   ACIS-S
        ColdECSBlankSky        HRC-S        May  1
        QSOB1402+044           ACIS-S
        NGC1365                ACIS-S/HETG
        Westerlund1            ACIS-I
        NGC1365                ACIS-S/HETG  May  2
        J102339.64+523349.6    ACIS-S
        SN2020ywx              ACIS-S
        Radiation Belts

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All spacecraft subsystems continued to support nominal operations.

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