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Operations CXO Status Report

Friday 12 February 2021 9.00am EST

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

Real-time procedures were executed during each ground contact to reset the DSN Outage Dead Man Load.

A Chandra press release was issued on Feb 8 describing the first evidence for a rare type of supernova in the Milky Way. This intriguing object lies near the center of our galaxy in a supernova remnant called Sagittarius A East. Chandra data revealed that this object may belong to a special group of Type Iax supernovas, which will help us understand the different ways that white dwarf stars can explode. For details see: https://chandra.harvard.edu/press/21_releases/press_020821.html

The schedule of targets for the next week is shown below and includes an observation of MAXI J1848-015, which was accepted as a Target of Opportunity on Jan 19, observations of WISEA J101022.95+141301.0 coordinated with VLA, and an observation of V404 Cygni coordinated with VLA.



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        Radiation Belts                     Feb 15
        SDSSJ0924+0219         ACIS-S
        Tol0440-381            ACIS-S       Feb 16
        HZ43                   HRC-I /LETG
        H1821+643              HRC-S /LETG
        J100758.26+211529.2    ACIS-S
        H1821+643              HRC-S /LETG  Feb 17
        J114306.5+680717.8     ACIS-S
        WISEAJ101022.95+141    ACIS-S
        Radiation Belts                     Feb 18
        E0102-72.3             ACIS-S
        3CR134                 ACIS-S
        WISEAJ101022.95+141    ACIS-S
        PSRB2224+65            ACIS-I       Feb 19
        WISEAJ101022.95+141    ACIS-S
        J081420.8+575008.0     ACIS-S
        Tol0440-381            ACIS-S
        ECO1616                ACIS-S       Feb 20
        Radiation Belts
        NGC4485/90             ACIS-S       Feb 21
        V404Cygni              ACIS-S
        MAXIJ1848-015          ACIS-S
        SDSSJ123241.73+0912    ACIS-S
        G21.5-09               HRC-S

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All spacecraft subsystems continued to support nominal operations.

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