Chandra Users Committee CXC Managers Status Report For

Chandra Users’ Committee CXC Manager’s Status Report For the period October 08 – March 09 Roger Brissenden CXC Manager 06 April 2008 6 April 2009 CXC Status Report/CUC

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 6 April 2009 CXC Status Report/CUC 2

Program Level Status – Program Management • Budget and Contract – The CXC’s budget is on track with the FY 09 Operating Plan – Program budget guidelines for FY 10 -14 have been released by NASA HQ and we assessing them for impacts. Meeting with HQ 4/13/09 – NASA has issued a request for proposal for a CXC contract extension to continue Chandra operations and science for up 9 additional years – A fast-track Integrated Acquisition Team approach is being used: the IAT held its first meeting on 3/10/09 – RFPs to SAO subcontractors have been issued, with 45 day turnaround – Proposal is planned for submission by May 15 with start date 10/1/09 6 April 2009 CXC Status Report/CUC 3

Program Level Status – Program Management • Facilities – The OCC’s contingency computer system at the Cf. A’s Cambridge Discovery Park facility has been tested with the spacecraft and been shown to be capable of supporting mission operations in case of a serious interruption to the OCC. • Reviews and Conferences – CIAO workshop (10/20/08) – Chandra Users’ Committee (10/15/08) Planned: – Peer Review (6/22/09) – Supernova Remnant workshop (7/8/09) – Calibration review (9/21/09) – 10 Years of Science with Chandra (9/22 -25/09) 6 April 2009 CXC Status Report/CUC 4

Program Level Status – CXC Organization 6 April 2009 CXC Status Report/CUC 5

Program Level Status – Operations • Spacecraft – Continues to operate extremely well overall. – Transition to Normal Sun Mode (10/21/08) due to a single event upset in a circuit known to be susceptible to SEUs. 168 ks of science lost. No adverse impact to mission. – Nominal passages through summer eclipse season, 6/12 – 7/6. • Science Instruments – Instruments are operating extremely well. – ACIS flight software v. 44 performing nominally o Upload of v. 44 on 10/1/08 coincided closely with ACIS watchdog timer reboot in continuous clocking mode o Reloaded v. 31 10/6/08 and started long test of v. 44 in CC mode o Reloaded v. 44 on 1/15/09; nominal performance since 6 April 2009 CXC Status Report/CUC 6

Program Level Status – Operations • Mission Planning: Load-interrupting TOOs Accepted 10/01/08 10/03/08 10/06/08 12/15/08 1/22/09 Target Time* 3 C 66 A AXP 1 E 1547. 0 -5408 1 ES 0120+340 CSS 081007: 030559+05 1 E 1547. 0 -5408 3 d 8 h 4 d 5 h** 1 d 3 h 1 d 18 h 1 d 16 h *Time from TOO approval to command upload ** Delayed by ACIS watchdog timer reset on 10/4 • OCC – Water leak in TST room on 2/24/09 HRC EGSE damaged, computers to be replaced; ASVT unharmed. Landlord has taken mitigating measures • Data Processing – Automatic processing is current; mean time from end of observation to delivery to user remains at about one day “Please pass on to the relevant groups my appreciation and congratulations on a smoothly running system! My M 87 observation ended circa 5 am EDT 1 Apr. The data were made available to me in the evening, and I reduced them before going to bed. . . all in the same day. cheers, Dan [Harris]” 6 April 2009 CXC Status Report/CUC 7

Program Level Status – Operations • Chandra Source Catalog – Released version 1 of the CSC on 3/4/09 – Includes 94, 676 master Chandra sources (unique sources on the sky), 135, 914 individual source observations (detected source regions), 3, 921 observation intervals • CXC Data System Releases Version CAT 3. 0. 2– 3. 0. 10 CIAO 4. 1. 1 DS 7. 6. 11. 10 DS 7. 6. 11. 12 6 April 2009 Date 10/3/082/25/09 12/15 1/15 2/12 Main contents Chandra Source Catalog CIAO Data Analysis release/Cf. P 11 support Cf. P 11 Pimms Calibration upgrade Cycle 11 Cf. P enhancements Cf. P 11 Web update TOO Update / CDO request CXC Status Report/CUC 8

Program Level Status – Operations • Calibration Database (Cal. DB) Releases Two versions of Cal. DB are maintained: 4. 1+ to support CIAO 4. 1, and 3. 5. x to support standard data processing and CIAO 3. 4 users – – – – Cal. DB 3. 5. 0. 1 Cal. DB 3. 5. 1 Cal. DB 4. 1. 0 Cal. DB 4. 1. 1 Cal. DB 3. 5. 2 Cal. DB 3. 5. 3 Cal. DB 4. 1. 2 11/21/08 12/5/08 12/15/08 1/21/09 1/29/09 3/26/09 3/27/09 Ephin GEOM v 2 & EPHIN A mod ACIS Tgain & CTI ACIS & HRMA mods; major release HRMA; HETG; PIMMS eff areas HRMA eff area ACIS Tgain, other mods • GO and Fellows Program, CXC Director’s Office – – Cycle 11 request for proposals issued 12/15/08 Observing proposal deadline 3/17/09; 668 GO proposals were received Grant issuance is current; average time to award < 3 weeks Einstein Fellows proposal deadline 11/7/08; 157 proposals received for 10 fellowships 6 April 2009 CXC Status Report/CUC 9

Mission Metrics MUPS Fuel Usage 6 April 2009 CXC Status Report/CUC 10

Mission Metrics Thruster Warm Starts 6 April 2009 CXC Status Report/CUC 11

Mission Metrics Observing Efficiency 6 April 2009 CXC Status Report/CUC 12

Data Delivery Effectiveness As of 4/1/09 As of middle of following month Month Number of Obs Days to Data Delivery Min Avg Max Number Deliv Number Outstanding Apr-08 75 0 1 11 75 0 May-08 201 0 1 4 201 0 Jun-08 77 0 1 8 77 0 Jul-08 48 0 1 8 48 0 Aug-08 58 0 1 8 58 0 Sep-08 50 0 1 27 48 2 50 0 Oct-08 62 0 1 12 62 0 Nov-08 73 0 1 17 73 0 Dec-08 68 0 2 13 68 0 Jan-09 87 0 1 14 86 1 87 0 Feb-09 160 0 1 5 160 0 Mar-09 76 0 1 12 76 0 Comments Note: Mar-09 figures are as of the first of the following month, not the middle of the following month. 6 April 2009 CXC Status Report/CUC 13

Grant Award Effectiveness Month of Data Delivery Federal Grants (1, 3) SAO Grants (2) As of middle of following month As of 4/1/09 Non-Federal Grants (3) No. Grants Awarded No. Outstanding Avg days to award (4) No. Grants Awarded No. Outstanding Apr-08 4 13 11 2 11 13 0 May-08 1 12 10 2 12 12 0 Jun-08 1 9 7 2 9 9 0 Jul-08 2 14 14 0 15 14 0 Aug-08 0 3 3 0 10 3 0 Sep-08 2 3 3 0 32 3 0 Oct-08 0 8 5 3 19 8 0 Nov-08 0 18 1 17 5 18 0 Dec-08 0 21 21 0 18 21 0 Jan-09 5 53 42 11 22 53 0 Feb-09 1 16 13 3 15 16 0 Mar-09 1 15 3 12 13 3 12 Outstanding Awards Proposal no, Comments 10200509 A&B, 10200618, 10500295 A&B, 10500437 A, B, C, 10500639 A&C, 10620535 A&B (1)1. Grants awarded to scientists at Federal institutions as interagency transfers through MSFC. (2)2. Grants awarded to scientists at non-Federal institutions through SAO Contracts and Grants Department. (3)3. Number of grants eligible for award, for which data were delivered to the observer in the month. (4)4. Average days from data delivery to grant award to observer. 6 April 2009 CXC Status Report/CUC 14