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Friday 9 July 2010 9.00am EDT
| During the last week Chandra completed the observing schedule as planned.
A real-time procedure was executed on Jul 7 to perform a routine self-check of the Electrical Interface Assembly (EIA) Sequencer. A second real-time procedure was executed on Jul 8 to update the on-board ephemeris. A Chandra press release was issued on Jul 7 describing observations of a newly discovered microquasar in the nearby galaxy NGC 7793. In a microquasar, a stellar-mass black hole is being fed by a companion star. The black hole in the microquasar is generating two powerful jets, which are blowing outward and creating huge bubbles of hot gas. For details see: http://chandra.harvard.edu/press/10_releases/press_070710.html The schedule of targets for the next week is shown below and includes an observation of GX 9+9 coordinated with RXTE and the VLA and an observation of TOO_XTEJ1752-223 coordinated with the VLA. |
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Radiation Belts Jul 11 ChandraDeepField-S ACIS-I Jul 12 HE1104-1805 ACIS-S TOO_XTEJ1752-223 ACIS-S Abell1423 ACIS-I GX9+9 ACIS-S/HETG Jul 13 Radiation Belts Jul 14 Vega (4 obs) HRC-S Vega HRC-I ChandraDeepField-S ACIS-I SDSSJ134738.23+4743 ACIS-S Jul 15 NGC6535 ACIS-S SDSSJ120046.28+4834 ACIS-S Jul 16 ChandraDeepField-S ACIS-I Radiation Belts VelaPWN ACIS-S Jul 17 G353.1+0.6 ACIS-I SDSSJ112526.51+0220 ACIS-S Jul 18 SN1999ec ACIS-S NGC2179 ACIS-S ChandraDeepField-S ACIS-I NGC1638 ACIS-S Jul 19 NGC3457 ACIS-S
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All spacecraft subsystems continued to support nominal operations.
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