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Friday 30 March 2007 9.00am EDT
| During the last week Chandra completed the observing schedule as
planned.
A Chandra image release was issued on Mar 29 of the galaxy 3C442A. The image combines Chandra X-data with radio data from the VLA and shows that the hot gas in the middle of the galaxy is pushing apart the radio-bright gas. The inner sections of the radio structure are sharp and concave, which is consistent with the idea that the X-ray bright gas is sweeping the radio-emitting gas aside. This is the opposite to cases seen in other systems where radio jets push the hotter gas, and is the first convincing evidence for such a role reversal. For details see: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2007/3c442a/ The schedule of targets for next week is shown below and includes the next eight of a series of 36 tiled observations that will comprise the 0.7 square deg, 1.8 Ms, COSMOS survey. |
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C-COSMOS2-2 ACIS-I Apr 1 C-COSMOS2-5 ACIS-I Apr 2 Radiation Belts Apr 3 IRAS F17132+5313 ACIS-S C-COSMOS4-2 ACIS-I C-COSMOS5-2 ACIS-I Apr 4 C-COSMOS5-3 ACIS-I Apr 5 Radiation Belts ESO 255-IG007 ACIS-S Apr 6 C-COSMOS5-4 ACIS-I C-COSMOS2-3 ACIS-I Apr 7 C-COSMOS3-2 ACIS-I
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All spacecraft subsystems continued to support nominal operations.
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