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Friday 11 May 2018 9.00am EDT
During the last week Chandra completed the observing schedule as planned. A Chandra image release was issued on May 9 describing archival analysis suggesting thousands of stellar-mass black holes are located near the center of our galaxy. The authors extrapolated their analysis from the detection of a dozen X-ray binaries which they suspect host a stellar-mass black hole. Only the brightest X-ray binaries containing black holes are likely to be detectable at the distance of the Galactic Center. For details see: http://chandra.si.edu/photo/2018/sgra_swarm/ The schedule of targets for the next week is shown below and includes an observation of Alpha Centauri, which was accepted as a Director's Discretionary Time Target of Opportunity on Feb 16. |
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NGC5985 ACIS-S May 13
CDWFS ACIS-I May 14
RYSct ACIS-I
Radiation Belts May 15
NGC4532 ACIS-S
CDWFS ACIS-I
CassiopeiaA ACIS-S
SDSSJ002311.06+0035 ACIS-S May 16
G344.7-0.1 ACIS-I
CDWFS ACIS-I
SDSSJ120313.10-0000 ACIS-S May 17
HZ43 HRC-I /LETG
UGC10017 ACIS-S
Radiation Belts
NGC2243 ACIS-S
SDSSJ233317.38-0023 ACIS-S May 18
G344.7-0.1 ACIS-I
ALPHACENTAURI HRC-I
CDWFS ACIS-I
VHSJ2028-5740 ACIS-S May 19
G344.7-0.1 ACIS-I
VHSJ2048-4644 ACIS-S
CDWFS ACIS-I
Radiation Belts May 20
G344.7-0.1 ACIS-I
VHSJ2355-0011 ACIS-S
ClGJ161855+105524 ACIS-I------------------------------------------
All spacecraft subsystems continued to support nominal operations.
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Revised: July 08, 2022