Chandra Operations CXO Status Report 1 Feb 2002
During the last week the observing schedule was replanned to include an observation of the Gamma-ray Burster GRB020127 that was accepted as a Target Of Opportunity (TOO) on 29 Jan following its detection in outburst.
Preparations for the spring 2002 earth eclipse season were completed and Chandra passed through the first eclipse with nominal power and thermal performance. The season will extend from 31 Jan to Feb 24 with 3 short eclipses ranging in duration from 19 to 35 minutes and 7 medium eclipses ranging from 41 to 56 minutes. A real-time procedure is planned to clear a glitch counter that incremented due to a known timing condition during eclipse exit.
Of note last week was the Chandra User Committee meeting held at the CXC on Jan 31 and Feb 1.
The observing schedule starting with the TOO GRB020127 and showing the targets for next week is shown below. The schedule includes an observation of M31 coordinated with HST.
------------------------------------------- GRB020127 (TOO) ACIS-S Jan 31 Beta Cru ACIS-S/HETG YY Men, HD 32918 ACIS-S/HETG Feb 1 Radiation Belts Feb 2 GX 301-2 ACIS-S/HETG Feb 3 SAX J1747.0-2853 ACIS-S/HETG Feb 4 XTE J1650-500 ACIS-S/HETG IM Normae ACIS-S HD104237 ACIS-I HD100546 (2 obs) ACIS-I TOLOLO 0109-383 ACIS-S NGC 1482 ACIS-S HS0218+3707 ACIS-S Feb 5 Radiation Belts CAS A HRC-I Feb 6 CAS A (2 obs) ACIS-S CAS A ACIS-I M31-T3 ACIS-I AX J0058.7+3019 ACIS-S HS0219+1452 ACIS-S PSS0121+0347 ACIS-S Feb 7 AX J0140.1+0628 ACIS-S AX J0144.9-0345 ACIS-S MACSJ0242.5-2132 ACIS-I MACSJ0429.6-0253 ACIS-I SDSS075618+410408 ACIS-S Radiation Belts Feb 8 Maddalena's Cloud ACIS-I NGC 2264 ACIS-I Feb 9 IRAM04191 ACIS-I CL 0442+0202 ACIS-I MACSJ0520.7-1328 ACIS-I Feb 10 -------------------------------------------
All spacecraft subsystems continued to operate nominally.
