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Operations CXO Status Report

Friday 13 December 2019 9.00am EST

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

Chandra passed through the third, fourth and fifth eclipses of the season on Dec 7, 9 and 12 respectively, with nominal power and thermal performance. A real-time procedure was executed Dec 7 to clear the EPS Glitch Counter following the battery reconnection. This is a routine event possible following an eclipse.

The schedule of targets for the next week is shown below and includes observations of Ark 564 coordinated with JVLA, an observation of FRB 180916.J0158+65 which is a followup to a Director's Discretionary Time Target of Opportunity accepted on Nov 13 and is coordinated with the Effelsberg Radio Telescope, an observation of PKS 1413+13 which is a follow-up to a Director's Discretionary Time Target of Opportunity accepted on Oct 18, and observations of C/2019 Q4 Borisov which was accepted as a Director's Discretionary Time Target of Opportunity on Oct 22.



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        Radiation Belts                     Dec 15
        C/2019Q4Borisov        HRC-S
        C/2019Q4Borisov        HRC-S        Dec 16
        RWAur                  ACIS-S
        C/2019Q4Borisov        HRC-S
        C/2019Q4Borisov        HRC-S
        J084219.1+300703.6     ACIS-S       Dec 17
        Radiation Belts
        RWAur                  ACIS-S
        FRB180916.J0158+65     ACIS-S
        RWAur                  ACIS-S       Dec 18
        C/2019Q4Borisov        HRC-S
        C/2019Q4Borisov        HRC-S
        RWAur                  ACIS-S
        NGC6104                ACIS-S       Dec 19
        Perseus_south_cf_1     ACIS-I
        Radiation Belts                     Dec 20
        F2M0825+4716           ACIS-S
        Ark564                 HRC-S /LETG
        PKS1413+135            ACIS-S
        Ark564                 HRC-S /LETG
        OrionNebulaCluster     ACIS-S/HETG
        CLJ211235.8-574950     ACIS-S       Dec 21
        OrionNebulaCluster     ACIS-S/HETG
        J0505                  ACIS-S       Dec 22
        OrionNebulaCluster     ACIS-S/HETG
        Radiation Belts                     Dec 23
        Perseus_south_cf_1     ACIS-I

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All spacecraft subsystems continued to support nominal operations.

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