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Chandra Users’ Committee CXC Manager’s Status Report For the period October 07 – March 08

Chandra Users’ Committee CXC Manager’s Status Report For the period October 07 – March 08. Roger Brissenden CXC Manager 9 April 2008. Topics. Program Level Status Program Management Spacecraft Science Instruments and Calibration Mission Planning OCC Data Processing CXCDS

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Chandra Users’ Committee CXC Manager’s Status Report For the period October 07 – March 08

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  1. Chandra Users’ CommitteeCXC Manager’s Status ReportFor the period October 07 – March 08 Roger Brissenden CXC Manager 9 April 2008

  2. Topics • Program Level Status • Program Management • Spacecraft • Science Instruments and Calibration • Mission Planning • OCC • Data Processing • CXCDS • Chandra Director’s Office • Education and Public Outreach • Mission Metrics • Chandra Grant Awards CXC Status Report/CUC

  3. Program Level Status • Program Management • Budget: The CXC’s budget is unchanged from the current Program Operating Plan (POP07, submitted Oct 07), and expenditures are on track to meet the budget. We presented POP08 to NASA headquarters on 3/28/08. • Senior Review: The proposal for the Senior Review of the Chandra Program was submitted to NASA on 3/12/08. A presentation to the review board will be given on 4/23/08. • Staffing: Staff numbers remain near FY06 levels, as planned. Sabina Bucher has been appointed Flight Operations Team manager to replace Dan Shropshire. Ms. Bucher, who has been with the FOT for 8 years, was previously a mission planner and a propulsion engineer, and most recently the Mission Planning manager. • Facilities: The OCC’s backup computer system, which has been installed in the CfA’s Cambridge Discovery Park facility, is being configured for test and will be operational in summer 08. The OCC’s operations areas and common spaces are being painted and renovated. CXC Status Report/CUC

  4. CXC Organization CXC Status Report/CUC

  5. Program Level Status • Spacecraft • Continues to operate extremely well overall • No spacecraft anomalies during this period • Nominal passages through winter eclipse season, 12/21/07 – 1/3/08, and two lunar eclipses, 10/10/07 and 2/6/08 • Science Instruments • Instruments are operating extremely well. • The HRC +Y Shutter was used successfully in an observation of the Crab Pulsar to reduce the event rate below telemetry saturation in order to enable high-precision timing. • Tests of turning off the ACIS detector housing heater were successful and the Flight Directors’ Board has approved turning off the heater permanently, as early as 4/7. This action should result in a higher fraction of ACIS observations having a cold and stable focal plane temperature. CXC Status Report/CUC

  6. Program Level Status • Mission Planning – load-interrupting TOOs Accepted Target Time* 09/20/07 SGR 1806-204d 20h 10/10/07 H 2356-309 0d 20h 10/26/07 Comet 17P/Holmes 4d 20h 12/19/07 m81-ot071213 2d 05h 01/14/08 NGC2770/SN2007uy 5d 11h 02/10/08 GRB 080207 5d 14h 02/15/08 4U1812-12 2d 11h • *Time from TOO approval to start of observation • OCC • Following an extensive security audit, the OCC received the formal Authority to Operate from NASA on 9/17/07. • The OCC Data System and GRETA networks have been migrated to a NetApp storage cluster for increased reliability. CXC Status Report/CUC

  7. Program Level Status • Data Processing • Automatic processing is current; time from end of observation to delivery to user remains at about one day (median increased slightly during this period due to a few difficult-to-process observations of Venus) • Data reprocessing (Repro 3) was completed 11/05/07. 514 HRC-I observations were reprocessed to apply new calibrations (completed 11/26/07), and reprocessing of an additional 157 observations to apply observation parameter corrections is in preparation. • CXC Data System Releases Version Date Main contents CIAO 4.0 B3 11/14/07 Sherpa/ChIPS/tools release DS 7.6.11.3 12/14/07 Cycle 10 proposal release; new TOO Manager GUI CIAO 4.0 12/15/07 Major CIAO Data Analysis release DS 7.6.11.4 12/19/07 One-day-turnaround patch release to sync EPHIN processing pipeline with the Offline System for turnoff of EPHIN G detector high voltage CIAO4.0.1 2/15/08 ObsVis upgrades for grids for CfP10 DS 7.6.11.5 2/13/08 P009 database; HRC telemetry bit fix DS 7.6.11.6 4/2/08 ACIS Fid cooling handling CXC Status Report/CUC

  8. Program Level Status • CXC Data System Planned Releases Version Date Main contents DS 7.6.11.7 Apr OFLS upgrade - SOE/ORL files CIAO 4.0.2 4/17 Mac/Intel 10.5 (Leopard) Port DS 7.6.11.8 5/28 L3 Archive prep release - migration to Sybase 15 DS 7.7 Fall Operations migration to Solaris10 • Level 3 Catalogue Version Date Main contents CAT 2.6 11/2 Repro; Science upgrades CAT 2.6.1 12/7 Science pipeline upgrades CAT 2.6.2 1/4 Low frequency background enhancements CAT 2.6.3 1/11 Infrastructure upgrades CAT 2.7 2/15 SAP & manual QA; science upgrades CAT 2.7.1 3/12 Integration analysis feedback CAT 2.8 May Complete science pipeline & infrastructure CAT 3.0 Aug Feedback from science test; ops interfaces CXC Status Report/CUC

  9. Program Level Status • Calibration Database (CalDB) Releases CalDB 3.4.2 12/13/07 ACIS T-gain Epoch 31 (8/07-10/07), Cycle10 PIMMS Effective Areas CalDB 3.4.3 3/31/08 ACIS T-gain Epoch 32 (11/07-1/08), T-gain Epoch 0 (9/99-1/00) • GO Program • Cycle 10: 639 GO proposals were received by the 3/20 deadline; 89 Msec requested (5.4x oversubscription) • Peer review is scheduled for the week of 6/16/08 • Chandra Fellows program • Chandra Fellows symposium was held at CfA, 10/10/07 • 99 applications for the current cycle were received by 10/31/07 • Fellowship panel met at CfA on 1/16/08 to rank the applicant list • 5 Fellows have accepted; will be hosted at U. Michigan, CalTech, Berkeley, Hawaii, Stanford CXC Status Report/CUC

  10. Program Level Status • Education and Public Outreach • 15 press activities (1 media telecon, 9 press releases, 4 image releases, 1 press advisory) • 150* print articles (incl. 1 NY Times, 2 Wash. Post (one front page teaser), USA Today • 532* web articles • 65 TV broadcasts on national news (media telecon), M33 x-7 story on Fox affiliate, 3 stories related to 8 Years conference on WAAY (Huntsville ABC affiliate), separate WAAY broadcast on RX J0822-4300 • Released multi-wavelength Braille book containing Chandra images, plus audio version on Chandra public web site • 5 radio broadcasts, 4 on media telecon, 1 on Braille book • sn2006gy recognized by Time Magazine as a “Top 10 Science Discovery” • Science News and space.com cite several Chandra results in “The Year in Review” and “Best Discoveries of 2007” • 21 education events and workshops • 7 Chandra podcasts released, including first Chandra HD podcast • 259 requests for 48,130 items of Chandra materials • 74 permissions to use Chandra content and images • Held Cycle 9 Chandra EPO peer review. Reviewed 12 proposals, funded 2 individual and 5 team and institutional for $183k • Contracted with Goodman Research Group for an independent summative (outcome oriented) impact evaluation of the education and outreach components of the EPO program *Through February 2008 CXC Status Report/CUC

  11. Mission MetricsMUPS Fuel Usage CXC Status Report/CUC

  12. Mission MetricsThruster Warm Starts CXC Status Report/CUC

  13. Mission MetricsObserving Efficiency High solar radiation during 12/06 CXC Status Report/CUC

  14. Data Delivery Effectiveness CXC Status Report/CUC

  15. Grant Award Effectiveness

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