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Operations CXO Status Report

Friday 8 November 2024 9.00am EST

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

Real-time procedures were executed on Nov 6 to perform a routine self-check of the Electrical Interface Assembly (EIA) Sequencer and to perform a diagnostic dump of the Control Processing Electronics (CPE).

A Chandra press release was issued on Nov 4 describing observations of a supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang. Using data from NASA's JWST and Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers have found that the black hole is consuming matter at a phenomenal rate — over 40 times the theoretical limit. While short lived, this black hole’s 'feast' could help astronomers explain how supermassive black holes grew so quickly in the early Universe. For details see: https://chandra.harvard.edu/press/24_releases/press_110424.html

The schedule of targets for the next week is shown below and includes an observation of GRB 241105A, which was accepted as a Target of Opportunity on Nov 6, an observation of AT2024wpp, which is a follow-up to a Director's Discretionary Time Target of Opportunity which was accepted on Oct 3, and an observation of GRB 240825A, which was accepted as a Director's Discretionary Time Target of Opportunity on Oct 8.



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        Abell370               ACIS-I       Nov 10
        GRB241105A             ACIS-S
        Radiation Belts                     Nov 11
        4U1626-67              ACIS-S/HETG
        Abell370               ACIS-I
        4U1626-67              ACIS-S/HETG
        Abell370               ACIS-I
        4U1626-67              ACIS-S/HETG
        Abell370               ACIS-I
        HD109833               ACIS-S       Nov 12
        Abell370               ACIS-I
        HD109833               ACIS-S
        Abell370               ACIS-I
        GRB240825A             ACIS-S
        SWIFTJ023017.0+2836    HRC-S
        GRB221009A             ACIS-S
        M33X-8                 ACIS-S/HETG  Nov 13
        Radiation Belts
        AT2024wpp              ACIS-S
        ACT-CLJ2213.6-0825     ACIS-S       Nov 14
        SWIFTJ023017.0+2836    HRC-S
        GRB221009A             ACIS-S
        M33X-8                 ACIS-S/HETG
        2MASXJ09030490+7251    ACIS-S
        HD23352                HRC-I        Nov 15
        SpARCSJ105111+58180    ACIS-I
        BD+22548               HRC-I
        SpARCSJ105111+58180    ACIS-I
        Radiation Belts                     Nov 16
        GRB221009A             ACIS-S
        GALEXMSCJ025952.92+    ACIS-S
        GRB221009A             ACIS-S
        LEDA89928              ACIS-S       Nov 17
        GRB221009A             ACIS-S
        IGRJ00197+6224         ACIS-S
        HD282971               HRC-I
        SpARCSJ105111+58180    ACIS-I
        HD28977                HRC-I

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All spacecraft subsystems continued to support nominal operations.

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