Chandra Operations CXO Status Report 28 June 2002

Status Report From: Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Posted: Friday, June 28, 2002

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

A Chandra press release was issued on June 25 describing observations of the pulsar in the center of the distant supernova remnant SNR G54.1+0.3. The pulsar was discovered using both X-ray data from Chandra and radio data from the Arecibo radio telescope. For more details and the image, see: http://chandra.harvard.edu/press/02_releases/press_062502.html

Of note last week was the Chandra User Committee meeting held at the CXC on June 25-26.

The observing schedule for the next week is shown below and includes an observation of Her X-1 that is phase constrained.

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Radiation Belts                      Jun 30
IM PEG                  ACIS-S/HETG  Jul 1 
HER X-1                 ACIS-S
AX J1532.5+2415         ACIS-S       Jul 2
NGC 4151                ACIS-S/LETG
Radiation Belts                      Jul 3
SMC FIELD 6             ACIS-I       Jul 4
SMC FIELD 3             ACIS-I
0903-573                ACIS-S
0920-397                ACIS-S
1424-418                ACIS-S
M28                     ACIS-S
H141159                 ACIS-I
NGC 3628 X-2            ACIS-S
BR1600+0724             ACIS-S       Jul 5
NGC 6366                ACIS-S
AQL X-1                 ACIS-S
HER X-1                 ACIS-S/HETG
NGC4486                 ACIS-S
Radiation Belts                      Jul2"D
NGC4486                 ACIS-S
IM PEG                  ACI/-S HETG  Jul 7
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All spacecraft subsystems continued to operate nominally.

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