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Operations CXO Status Report

Friday 21 June 2024 9.00am EDT

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

Chandra press and image releases were issued on Jun 20 describing a study of 70 young neutron stars based on data from Chandra and from XMM-Newton, with the fundamental goal of advancing our understanding of the composition and properties of neutron star interiors. The analysis identified three neutron stars --- likely more massive than typical for the rest --- with surfaces substantially cooler than the surfaces of others of similar age. The rate of cooling depends on the interior states and composition of the neutron stars and can be used to support or exclude various possible models of the interiors. For details, see https://chandra.harvard.edu/press/24_releases/press_062024.html

The schedule of targets for the next week is shown below and includes an observation of SS433 coordinated with Swift.



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        Radiation Belts                     Jun 23
        SDSSJ214654.04+2354    ACIS-S
        LMCDeepField08         ACIS-I       Jun 24
        m28                    HRC-S
        LMCDeepField05         ACIS-I
        m28                    HRC-S        Jun 25
        J0038                  ACIS-S
        SS433                  HRC-I
        PSZ2G083.14+66.57      ACIS-I       Jun 26
        Radiation Belts
        XMMJ0.173-0.413        ACIS-I
        SDSSJ111800.50+1958    ACIS-S
        CMZMolecularCloud      ACIS-I       Jun 27
        PSZ2G268.30+28.89      ACIS-I
        V1460Her               ACIS-S
        ArLac (10 obs)         HRC-I
        A1795                  ACIS-I
        A1795                  ACIS-I       Jun 28
        ArLac                  HRC-S
        LMCDeepField01         ACIS-I
        Radiation Belts                     Jun 29
        A1795                  ACIS-I
        m28                    HRC-S
        LMCDeepField01         ACIS-I
        XMMJ0.173-0.413        ACIS-I       Jun 30
        CMZMolecularCloud      ACIS-I
        ESO436-34              ACIS-S
        m28                    HRC-S
        PKS0921-213            ACIS-S
        CMZMolecularCloud      ACIS-I

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All spacecraft subsystems continued to support nominal operations.

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