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Friday 23 October 2015 9.00am EDT
During the last week Chandra completed the observing schedule as planned. A real-time procedure was executed on Oct 21 to collect bus-current data at a higher than normal rate during a planned angular-momentum unload. The data will be used to characterize the expected bus-current values for a range of thruster pulse durations during a nominal unload. A Chandra press release was issued on Oct 21 describing observations of a "tidal disruption" event, dubbed ASASSN-14li, the closest one discovered in ten years. Astronomers have witnessed stellar debris being blown away after a black hole destroyed the star. For details see: http://chandra.si.edu/press/15_releases/press_102115.html The schedule of targets for the next week is shown below and includes an observation of PHAT B9 coordinated with NuSTAR. |
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SDSSJ091938.63+3602 ACIS-S Oct 26
PHATB9 ACIS-I
Radiation Belts
ChandraDeepField-S ACIS-I Oct 27
CygnusA-Nucleus ACIS-I Oct 28
SDSSJ153110.59+3414 ACIS-S
Bootesmoddepth1 ACIS-I Oct 29
Radiation Belts
G296.5+10.0-SW ACIS-I Oct 30
CODEX55604 ACIS-I
SDSSJ235654.49-1016 ACIS-S
ChandraDeepField-S ACIS-I
Radiation Belts Nov 1
CygnusA-Nucleus ACIS-I------------------------------------------
All spacecraft subsystems continued to support nominal operations.
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