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Operations CXO Status Report

Friday 15 May 2015 9.00am EDT

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

A Chandra image release was issued on May 14 describing a magnetar near the Milky Way's supermassive black hole that is exhibiting some unusual behavior. In particular the X-ray output from this magnetar is dropping more slowly than others and its surface is exceptionally hot. For details see: http://chandra.si.edu/photo/2015/sgr1745/

The schedule of targets for the next two weeks is shown below and includes an observation of GRO J1750-27, which is a Target of Opportunity accepted on May 11, SAX J1808.4-3658, which is a Director's Discretionary Time TOO accepted on May 11, 2S 1553-542, which is a Director's Discretionary Time TOO accepted on May 13, and M28 coordinated with NRAO-GBT.



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        Radiation Belts                     May 18
        ChandraDeepField-S     ACIS-I       May 19
        G1.9+0.3               ACIS-S       May 20
        GROJ1750-27            ACIS-S
        Radiation Belts                     May 21
        2S1553-542             ACIS-I
        NGC5643                ACIS-S
        SAXJ1808.4-3658        HRC-S        May 22
        SwiftJ145440.2-5135    ACIS-S
        ComaCluster            HRC-I        May 23
        NGC5033                ACIS-I
        Radiation Belts
        Abell1882-Filament     ACIS-I       May 24
        NGC3949                ACIS-S       May 25
        M31bulge               ACIS-I
        ChandraDeepField-S     ACIS-I
        Radiation Belts                     May 26
        30Doradus              ACIS-I       May 27
        Abell1882-Filament     ACIS-I
        NGC5713                ACIS-I       May 28
        Radiation Belts                     May 29
        30Doradus              ACIS-I
        M28                    ACIS-S       May 30
        RMJ160319.0+031644.    ACIS-I
        AbellS753              ACIS-I
        Radiation Belts                     May 31

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All spacecraft subsystems continued to support nominal operations.

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