Chandra Users

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Chandra Users CommitteeCXC Managers Status
ReportFor the period October 07 March 08

• Roger Brissenden
• CXC Manager
• 9 April 2008

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Topics

• Program Level Status
• Program Management
• Spacecraft
• Science Instruments and Calibration
• Mission Planning
• OCC
• Data Processing
• CXCDS
• Chandra Directors Office
• Education and Public Outreach
• Mission Metrics
• Chandra Grant Awards

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Program Level Status

• Program Management
• Budget The CXCs 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 OCCs backup computer system,
  which has been installed in the CfAs Cambridge
  Discovery Park facility, is being configured for
  test and will be operational in summer 08. The
  OCCs operations areas and common spaces are
  being painted and renovated.

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CXC Organization
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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.

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Program Level Status

• Mission Planning load-interrupting TOOs
• Accepted Target Time
• 09/20/07 SGR 1806-20 4d 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.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Mission MetricsMUPS Fuel Usage
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Mission MetricsThruster Warm Starts
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Mission MetricsObserving Efficiency
High solar radiation during 12/06
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Data Delivery Effectiveness
As of middle of following month As of middle of following month As of middle of following month As of middle of following month As of middle of following month As of 3/11/08 As of 3/11/08 As of 3/11/08
Month Number of Obs Days to Data Delivery Days to Data Delivery Days to Data Delivery Number Deliv Number Outstanding Number Deliv Number Outstanding Notes
Month Number of Obs Min Avg Max Number Deliv Number Outstanding Number Deliv Number Outstanding Notes
Mar-07 84 0 1 5 84 0 84 0
Apr07 65 0 1 3 65 0 65 0
May-07 54 0 1 8 54 0 54 0
Jun-07 69 0 1 3 69 0 69 0
Jul-07 83 0 1 3 83 0 83 0
Aug-07 61 0 1 14 61 0 61 0
Sep-07 76 0 1 16 76 0 76 0
Oct-07 73 0 2 12 67 6 73 0
Nov-07 78 0 1 22 77 1 78 0
Dec-07 89 0 2 18 89 0 89 0
Jan-08 98 0 1 3 98 0 98 0
Feb-08 145 0 1 11 145 0 145 0
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Grant Award Effectiveness
Month of Data Delivery Month of Data Delivery Federal Grants (1,3) SAO Grants (2) SAO Grants (2) SAO Grants (2) SAO Grants (2) SAO Grants (2) SAO Grants (2) SAO Grants (2)
Month of Data Delivery Month of Data Delivery Federal Grants (1,3) As of middle of following month As of middle of following month As of middle of following month As of middle of following month As of 3/18/08 As of 3/18/08 As of 3/18/08
Month of Data Delivery Month of Data Delivery Federal Grants (1,3) Non-Federal Grants (3) No. Grants Awarded No. Outstanding Avg days to award (4) No. Grants Awarded No. Outstanding Outstanding Awards Proposal no, Comments
Mar-07 Mar-07 0 14 1 13 9 14 0
Apr-07 Apr-07 0 11 2 9 16 11 0
May-07 May-07 1 10 7 3 10 10 0
Jun-07 Jun-07 1 16 15 1 18 16 0
Jul-07 Jul-07 0 13 11 2 17 13 0
Aug-07 Aug-07 1 17 6 11 32 17 0
Sep-07 Sep-07 3 11 2 9 15 11 0
Oct-07 Oct-07 2 12 8 4 19 12 0
Nov-07 Nov-07 0 6 3 3 9 6 0
Dec-07 Dec-07 0 41 33 8 12 41 0
Jan-08 Jan-08 7 51 33 18 36 51 0
Feb-08 0 0 10 9 1 26 9 1 9700400
1. Grants awarded to scientists at Federal institutions as interagency transfers through MSFC. 2. Grants awarded to scientists at non-Federal institutions through SAO Contracts and Grants Department. 3. Number of grants eligible for award, for which data were delivered to the observer in the month. 4. Average days from data delivery to grant award to observer. 1. Grants awarded to scientists at Federal institutions as interagency transfers through MSFC. 2. Grants awarded to scientists at non-Federal institutions through SAO Contracts and Grants Department. 3. Number of grants eligible for award, for which data were delivered to the observer in the month. 4. Average days from data delivery to grant award to observer. 1. Grants awarded to scientists at Federal institutions as interagency transfers through MSFC. 2. Grants awarded to scientists at non-Federal institutions through SAO Contracts and Grants Department. 3. Number of grants eligible for award, for which data were delivered to the observer in the month. 4. Average days from data delivery to grant award to observer. 1. Grants awarded to scientists at Federal institutions as interagency transfers through MSFC. 2. Grants awarded to scientists at non-Federal institutions through SAO Contracts and Grants Department. 3. Number of grants eligible for award, for which data were delivered to the observer in the month. 4. Average days from data delivery to grant award to observer. 1. Grants awarded to scientists at Federal institutions as interagency transfers through MSFC. 2. Grants awarded to scientists at non-Federal institutions through SAO Contracts and Grants Department. 3. Number of grants eligible for award, for which data were delivered to the observer in the month. 4. Average days from data delivery to grant award to observer. 1. Grants awarded to scientists at Federal institutions as interagency transfers through MSFC. 2. Grants awarded to scientists at non-Federal institutions through SAO Contracts and Grants Department. 3. Number of grants eligible for award, for which data were delivered to the observer in the month. 4. Average days from data delivery to grant award to observer. 1. Grants awarded to scientists at Federal institutions as interagency transfers through MSFC. 2. Grants awarded to scientists at non-Federal institutions through SAO Contracts and Grants Department. 3. Number of grants eligible for award, for which data were delivered to the observer in the month. 4. Average days from data delivery to grant award to observer. 1. Grants awarded to scientists at Federal institutions as interagency transfers through MSFC. 2. Grants awarded to scientists at non-Federal institutions through SAO Contracts and Grants Department. 3. Number of grants eligible for award, for which data were delivered to the observer in the month. 4. Average days from data delivery to grant award to observer. 1. Grants awarded to scientists at Federal institutions as interagency transfers through MSFC. 2. Grants awarded to scientists at non-Federal institutions through SAO Contracts and Grants Department. 3. Number of grants eligible for award, for which data were delivered to the observer in the month. 4. Average days from data delivery to grant award to observer. 1. Grants awarded to scientists at Federal institutions as interagency transfers through MSFC. 2. Grants awarded to scientists at non-Federal institutions through SAO Contracts and Grants Department. 3. Number of grants eligible for award, for which data were delivered to the observer in the month. 4. Average days from data delivery to grant award to observer.