Friday 20 September 2024 9.00am EDT
During the last week Chandra completed the observing schedule as planned. Real-time procedures were executed on Sep 16 to disable SCS-29 and to dump and clear the EPS glitch counters as post-eclipse season actions. Chandra passed through the 12th and 13th (and final) eclipses of the season on Sep 13 and 16, respectively, with nominal power and thermal performance. A Chandra image release was issued on Sep 19 describing a galaxy cluster, Zwicky 8338, at about 670 million light-years from Earth, that is the result of a collision of predecessor galaxy clusters. Chandra data show that Zwicky 8338 contains two rapidly-moving galaxies with interacting streams of multimillion degree gas stripped from them as they travel through the cluster. For details, see https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2024/z8338/ The schedule of targets for the next week is shown below, and includes observations of BZCam coordinated with HST, and observations of GX339-4, which was accepted as a Target of Opportunity on Sep 19 and is coordinated with XMM-Newton. |
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PSOJ173.4601+48.242 ACIS-S Sep 23 BZCam ACIS-S/HETG Radiation Belts Sep 24 BZCam ACIS-S/HETG ACT-CL_J0034.4+0225 ACIS-S BZCam ACIS-S/HETG Sep 25 GJ887 HRC-S GJ887 HRC-S SDSSJ002519.92+0031 ACIS-S BZCam ACIS-S/HETG PSZ2G091.40-51.01 ACIS-I Sep 26 WISEAJ003015.29-152 ACIS-S GX339-4 ACIS-S/HETG Radiation Belts Sep 27 SNR1987A ACIS-S/HETG GJ887 HRC-S GJ887 HRC-S SDSSJ004600.83-0927 ACIS-S GX339-4 ACIS-S/HETG SDSSJ010005.33-1102 ACIS-S Sep 28 GX339-4 ACIS-S/HETG PSZ2G127.71-69.55 ACIS-I GX339-4 ACIS-S/HETG PSZ2G072.40-78.45 ACIS-I GX339-4 ACIS-S/HETG J0038 ACIS-S Sep 29 Radiation Belts GX339-4 ACIS-S/HETG
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All spacecraft subsystems continued to support nominal operations.
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