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Operations CXO Status Report

Friday 17 June 2022 9.00am EDT

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

A Chandra press release was issued on Jun 15 describing observations of the pulsar near the center of the supernova remnant G292.0+1.8. The team found that the pulsar is traveling at least 625 km/s. This newly determined velocity implies an age of about 2000 years for the remnant. For details see: https://chandra.si.edu/press/22_releases/press_061522.html

Of note this week was the release on Jun 16 of CalDB version 4.9.8. The CalDB update includes HRC-I/Grating angle corrections, HRC-S QEU file set upgrade version N0016, and PCAD ALIGN updates version N0010. For details see: https://cxc.cfa.harvard.edu/caldb/downloads/Release_notes/CALDB_v4.9.8.html

The schedule of targets for the next week is shown below and includes an observation of GRB 220611A, which was accepted as a Director's Discretionary Time Target of Opportunity on Jun 15.



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        ASASSN-14ko            ACIS-S       Jun 20
        GDH13                  ACIS-I
        GDH18                  ACIS-I
        GDH18                  ACIS-I
        GDH18                  ACIS-I
        NGC3081                ACIS-S
        GDHIdp51               ACIS-I       Jun 21
        GDHIdp51               ACIS-I
        GDHInt31               ACIS-I
        GDHInt31               ACIS-I
        SDSSJ150117.07+2317    ACIS-S
        Radiation Belts                     Jun 22
        HD113904               ACIS-S/HETG
        GDH18                  ACIS-I
        GDH18                  ACIS-I
        GDH26                  ACIS-I
        NGC3081                ACIS-S
        GDH26 (4 obs)          ACIS-I       Jun 23
        GRB220611A             ACIS-S
        GDHIdp60               ACIS-I       Jun 24
        GDHIdp60               ACIS-I
        GDHIdp60               ACIS-I
        Abell2142              ACIS-I
        GDHIdp60               ACIS-I
        Radiation Belts
        GDHInt31               ACIS-I
        GDHIdp51 (4 obs)       ACIS-I       Jun 25
        ASASSN-14ko            ACIS-S
        [DAG2016]PSZ1-ARCG     ACIS-S
        DELSJ091054.53-0414    ACIS-I
        CMZMolecularCloud      ACIS-I       Jun 26
        A1068                  ACIS-S
        GDHInt31               ACIS-I
        GDHInt31               ACIS-I
        GDHIdp60               ACIS-I
        GDHIdp60               ACIS-I

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All spacecraft subsystems except HRC continued to support nominal operations.

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