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Operations CXO Status Report

Friday 8 January 2010 9.00am EDT

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

A real-time procedure was executed on Jan 6 to perform a routine self-check of the Electrical Interface Assembly (EIA) Sequencer.

A Chandra press release was issued on Jan 4 describing new results from Chandra and the ground-based Magellan telescopes that suggest a dense stellar remnant has been ripped apart by a black hole a thousand times as massive as the Sun. If confirmed, this discovery would be a cosmic double play: it would be strong evidence for an intermediate mass black hole, which has been a hotly debated topic, and would mark the first time such a black hole has been caught tearing a star apart. For details see: http://chandra.harvard.edu/press/10_releases/press_010410.html

A Chandra image release was issued on Jan 5 of Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way. Astronomers have known for a long time that Sgr A* is relatively quiet compared to other black holes of similar size. A new theoretical model based on a very long Chandra observation of the region may explain the feeble consumption by Sgr A*. For details see: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2010/sgra/

The schedule of targets for the next week is shown below and includes observations of GM Aur coordinated with Gemini/North, DQ Tau coordinated with CARMA, and Cyg X-1 coordinated with RXTE.

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SDSSJ161751.98-0019    ACIS-S        Jan 11
PGC030133              ACIS-S
PG1001+054             ACIS-S
PG0946+301             ACIS-S
SDSSJ094417.85+0930    ACIS-S
SDSSJ085152.62+5228    ACIS-S
DQTau                  ACIS-I
QJ0158-4325            ACIS-S        Jan 12
V838Mon                ACIS-S
SPT-CL0528-5300        ACIS-I
Radiation Belts
SDSS0924+0219          ACIS-S        Jan 13
ESO576-076             ACIS-S
Abell795               ACIS-S
SDSSJ093308.88+5347    ACIS-S        Jan 14
CygX-1                 ACIS-S/HETG
4U1626-67              ACIS-S/HETG
Radiation Belts                      Jan 15
DDO68                  ACIS-S
KUG0937+298            ACIS-S        Jan 16
NGC2970                ACIS-S
SDSSJ0946+2744         ACIS-S
SDSSJ095330.53+5626    ACIS-S
GMAur                  ACIS-S
CTB87                  ACIS-I
SDSSJ092438.88+5607    ACIS-S        Jan 17
SDSSJ095438.78+4032    ACIS-S

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All spacecraft subsystems continued to support nominal operations.

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