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Friday 18 July 2008 8.30am EDT
| During the last week Chandra completed the observing schedule as
planned.
A Chandra press release was issued on Jul 16 describing a new technique for measuring the mass of the super-massive black hole at the center of the giant elliptical galaxy NGC 4649. The new X-ray technique confirms that the super-massive black hole in NGC 4649 is one of the largest in the local universe with a mass about 3.4 billion times that of the Sun, about a thousand times bigger than the black hole at the center of our galaxy. For details see: http://chandra.harvard.edu/press/08_releases/press_071608.html The targets recommended for acceptance from the Cycle-10 Peer Review were posted on schedule on July 11. For details see: http://cxc.harvard.edu/target_lists/cycle10/ The schedule of targets for the next week is shown below and includes observations of Sgr A* coordinated with the VLT. |
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Radiation Belts Jul 22 Carina Superbubble ACIS-I 1.5deg_window ACIS-I Jul 23 Radiation Belts Jul 24 Carina Superbubble ACIS-I Jul 25 Sgr A* ACIS-I 31 Com HRC-I Jul 26 Sgr A* ACIS-I 1.5deg_window ACIS-I Jul 27 Radiation Belts
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All spacecraft subsystems continued to support nominal operations.
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