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Operations CXO Status Report

Friday 27 October 2023 9.00am EDT

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

Chandra passed through the 19th, 20th, and 21st eclipses of the season on Oct 21, 24, and 26 respectively, with nominal power and thermal performance.

Of note this week was the release on Oct 26 of the Sherpa 4.16.0 package for Python. This release of Sherpa incorporates bug fixes and new functionalities, including new visualization software. For detailed release notes see: https://github.com/sherpa/sherpa/releases/tag/4.16.0

The schedule of targets for the next week is shown below and includes observations of AT2023fhn, which is a follow-up to a Target of Opportunity accepted on Apr 21, and observations of AT2023uqf, which which was accepted as a Director's Discretionary Time Target of Opportunity on Oct 25.



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        ESO137-G034            ACIS-S       Oct 28
        SXDSFH-Dropout2        ACIS-I
        ESO137-G034            ACIS-S       Oct 29
        SXDSFH-Dropout2        ACIS-I
        AT2023uqf              ACIS-S
        Radiation Belts
        SXDSFH-Dropout2        ACIS-I       Oct 30
        AT2023uqf              ACIS-S
        SXDSFH-Dropout2        ACIS-I
        DELSJ091054.53-0414    ACIS-I
        SXDSFH-Dropout2        ACIS-I
        DELSJ091054.53-0414    ACIS-I
        SXDSFH-Dropout2        ACIS-I       Oct 31
        DELSJ091054.53-0414    ACIS-I
        SXDSFH-Dropout2        ACIS-I
        DELSJ091054.53-0414    ACIS-I
        SXDSFH-Dropout2        ACIS-I
        DELSJ091054.53-0414    ACIS-I       Nov  1
        Radiation Belts
        SXDSFH-Dropout2        ACIS-I
        BD-202976              HRC-I
        NGC2353                ACIS-I       Nov  2
        A399                   ACIS-I
        AT2023fhn              ACIS-S
        A399                   ACIS-I
        AT2023fhn              ACIS-S
        A399                   ACIS-I
        AT2023fhn              ACIS-S       Nov  3
        TYC6991-475-1          HRC-I
        SXDSFH-Dropout2        ACIS-I
        WISEAJ092637.18+402    ACIS-S
        Radiation Belts                     Nov  4
        GaiaDR284625630419     ACIS-S
        AT2023fhn              ACIS-S
        1RXSJ030007.6+16302    ACIS-S
        AT2023fhn              ACIS-S
        NGC2353                ACIS-I
        TYC6991-475-1          HRC-I        Nov  5
        SXDSFH-Dropout2        ACIS-I
        WISEAJ092637.18+402    ACIS-S
        1RXSJ031639.0+15543    ACIS-S
        BD-202976              HRC-I

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All spacecraft subsystems continued to support nominal operations.

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