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Operations CXO Status Report

Friday 25 November 2022 9.00am EST

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

Real-time procedures were executed on Nov 18 and 21 to update the on-board pointing control commandable parameters that specify the aspect camera search box size used for acquiring fiducial lights. This was necessary due to a thermally-driven alignment shift of the aspect camera.

An additional real-time procedure was executed on Nov 18 to update two on-board stored command sequences that perform configuration steps for HRC observations. These updates are part of the effort to return to HRC science. Additional real-time procedures were executed on Nov 18-21 to dump OBC-A and -B memory as a follow-up to the patch. The dump will be used to update the baseline memory images maintained on the ground.

Chandra passed through the 20th and 21st eclipses of the season on Nov 20 and 22 respectively, with nominal power and thermal performance.

A Chandra image release was issued on Nov 21 describing a new sonification that turns X-ray data of "light echoes" captured by NASA's Chandra and Swift X-ray observatories into sound. These light echoes are around V404 Cygni, a binary system where a stellar-mass black hole is in orbit with a "normal" star. Periodically, material around the black hole will generate outbursts in light that propagate outward into space. These data help astronomers learn about the distribution of dust and gas clouds between V404 Cygni and Earth. For details see: https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2022/sonify6/

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



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        Radiation Belts                     Nov 27
        SNRG310.6-1.6          ACIS-S       Nov 28
        SDSSJ030903.86+0038    ACIS-S
        SNRG310.6-1.6          ACIS-S
        SDSSJ033549.22-0039    ACIS-S
        SNRG310.6-1.6          ACIS-S
        SDSSJ030903.86+0038    ACIS-S       Nov 29
        SNRG310.6-1.6          ACIS-S
        SDSSJ033549.22-0039    ACIS-S
        SNRG310.6-1.6          ACIS-S
        HR2142                 ACIS-S
        MCXCJ0928.6+3747       ACIS-I
        SDSSJ110735.58+6420    ACIS-S       Nov 30
        CasA                   ACIS-I
        Radiation Belts
        WR25                   ACIS-S/HETG
        GaiaDR234104534890     ACIS-S       Dec  1
        WR25                   ACIS-S/HETG
        GaiaDR234106408870     ACIS-S
        WR25                   ACIS-S/HETG
        GaiaDR233091708759     ACIS-S
        WR25                   ACIS-S/HETG
        Abell2744              ACIS-I       Dec  2
        A399                   ACIS-I
        Abell2744              ACIS-I
        CasA (3 obs)           ACIS-I
        A399                   ACIS-I
        Radiation Belts                     Dec  3
        SDSSJ134341.99+2556    ACIS-S
        MCG+05-10-007          ACIS-I
        JWST-DTDF-1            ACIS-I
        CasA                   ACIS-I       Dec  4
        MCG+05-10-007          ACIS-I
        JWST-DTDF-1            ACIS-I
        Trumpler3              ACIS-I
        PSZ2G118.39+42.22      ACIS-I
        Trumpler3              ACIS-I

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All spacecraft subsystems except HRC continued to support nominal operations.

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