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Operations CXO Status Report

Friday 7 April 2023 9.00am EDT

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

Real-time procedures were executed on Apr 5 to perform a routine self-check of the Electrical Interface Assembly (EIA) Sequencer and to perform a diagnostic dump of the Control Processing Electronics (CPE).

Chandra passed through the 14th, 15th, and 16th eclipses of the season on Apr 1, Apr 3, and Apr 6 respectively, with nominal power and thermal performance.

Of note this week, following completion of the process for returning the High Resolution Camera (HRC) to science operations after the 15V power supply anomaly, HRC observations have been included in the load planned for the next week.

The schedule of targets for the next week is shown below and includes an observation of TIC420112589, which was accepted as a Director's Discretionary Time Target of Opportunity on Sep 13, an observation of SN2012ap, which is a follow-up to a Target of Opportunity accepted on Dec 27 and is coordinated with NuSTAR, observations of WISEAJ045649.8-2037, which are follow-ups to Director's Discretionary Time Targets of Opportunity accepted on Mar 2, and observations of SgrA* coordinated with NuSTAR and the Event Horizon Telescope.



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        SDSSJ144948.62+1230    ACIS-S       Apr 10
        [MOK2016b]HSCJ1254     ACIS-S
        TIC420112589           HRC-S
        [MOK2016b]HSCJ1254     ACIS-S
        SN2012ap               ACIS-S
        NGC4939_s1             ACIS-S
        WISEAJ045649.8-2037    ACIS-S       Apr 11
        SDSSJ205302.76-07183   ACIS-S
        Abell2029              ACIS-I
        Radiation Belts                     Apr 12
        Abell2029              ACIS-I
        PSRJ1913+0904          ACIS-I
        SgrA*                  ACIS-S       Apr 13
        2RXSJ133824.9-25163    ACIS-S
        SNR1987A               HRC-S /LETG
        NGC4802                ACIS-I
        WISEAJ045649.8-2037    ACIS-S       Apr 14
        Radiation Belts
        [MCA2018]SPTJ2349-     ACIS-S
        A1795                  ACIS-S
        ESO338-4               ACIS-I       Apr 15
        2RXSJ140247.1-24315    ACIS-S
        [BHW2010]G32.5898-0    ACIS-S
        WOLF437                HRC-I        Apr 16
        SgrA*                  ACIS-S
        1E161348-5055.1        ACIS-S
        Radiation Belts

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All spacecraft subsystems continued to support nominal operations.

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