Chandra Users Committee CXC Managers Status Report For

Chandra Users’ Committee CXC Manager’s Status Report For the period October 07 – March 08 Roger Brissenden CXC Manager 9 April 2008 19 September 2007 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 19 September 2007 CXC Status Report/CUC 2

Program Level Status • Program Management – Budget: The CXC’s budget is unchanged from the current Program Operating Plan (POP 07, submitted Oct 07), and expenditures are on track to meet the budget. We presented POP 08 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 FY 06 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 Cf. A’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. 19 September 2007 CXC Status Report/CUC 3

CXC Organization 19 September 2007 CXC Status Report/CUC 4

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. 19 September 2007 CXC Status Report/CUC 5

Program Level Status • Mission Planning – load-interrupting TOOs Accepted 09/20/07 10/10/07 10/26/07 12/19/07 01/14/08 02/10/08 02/15/08 Target Time* SGR 1806 -20 H 2356 -309 Comet 17 P/Holmes m 81 -ot 071213 NGC 2770/SN 2007 uy GRB 080207 4 U 1812 -12 4 d 20 h 0 d 20 h 4 d 20 h 2 d 05 h 5 d 11 h 5 d 14 h 2 d 11 h *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 Net. App storage cluster for increased reliability. 19 September 2007 CXC Status Report/CUC 6

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 CIAO 4. 0 B 3 DS 7. 6. 11. 3 CIAO 4. 0 DS 7. 6. 11. 4 Date 11/14/07 12/15/07 12/19/07 CIAO 4. 0. 1 DS 7. 6. 11. 5 DS 7. 6. 11. 6 2/15/08 2/13/08 4/2/08 19 September 2007 Main contents Sherpa/Ch. IPS/tools release Cycle 10 proposal release; new TOO Manager GUI Major CIAO Data Analysis release One-day-turnaround patch release to sync EPHIN processing pipeline with the Offline System for turnoff of EPHIN G detector high voltage Obs. Vis upgrades for grids for Cf. P 10 P 009 database; HRC telemetry bit fix ACIS Fid cooling handling CXC Status Report/CUC 7

Program Level Status • CXC Data System Planned Releases Version DS 7. 6. 11. 7 CIAO 4. 0. 2 DS 7. 6. 11. 8 DS 7. 7 Date Apr 4/17 5/28 Fall Main contents OFLS upgrade - SOE/ORL files Mac/Intel 10. 5 (Leopard) Port L 3 Archive prep release - migration to Sybase 15 Operations migration to Solaris 10 • Level 3 Catalogue Version CAT 2. 6. 1 CAT 2. 6. 2 CAT 2. 6. 3 CAT 2. 7. 1 CAT 2. 8 CAT 3. 0 19 September 2007 Date 11/2 12/7 1/4 1/11 2/15 3/12 May Aug Main contents Repro; Science upgrades Science pipeline upgrades Low frequency background enhancements Infrastructure upgrades SAP & manual QA; science upgrades Integration analysis feedback Complete science pipeline & infrastructure Feedback from science test; ops interfaces CXC Status Report/CUC 8

Program Level Status • Calibration Database (Cal. DB) Releases Cal. DB 3. 4. 2 12/13/07 ACIS T-gain Epoch 31 (8/07 -10/07), Cycle 10 PIMMS Effective Areas Cal. DB 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. 4 x oversubscription) – Peer review is scheduled for the week of 6/16/08 • Chandra Fellows program – – Chandra Fellows symposium was held at Cf. A, 10/10/07 99 applications for the current cycle were received by 10/31/07 Fellowship panel met at Cf. A on 1/16/08 to rank the applicant list 5 Fellows have accepted; will be hosted at U. Michigan, Cal. Tech, Berkeley, Hawaii, Stanford 19 September 2007 CXC Status Report/CUC 9

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), M 33 x-7 story on Fox affiliate, 3 stories related to 8 Years conference on WAAY (Huntsville ABC affiliate), separate WAAY broadcast on RX J 0822 -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 sn 2006 gy 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 $183 k 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 19 September 2007 CXC Status Report/CUC 10

Mission Metrics MUPS Fuel Usage 19 September 2007 CXC Status Report/CUC 11

Mission Metrics Thruster Warm Starts 19 September 2007 CXC Status Report/CUC 12

Mission Metrics Observing Efficiency High solar radiation during 12/06 19 September 2007 CXC Status Report/CUC 13

Data Delivery Effectiveness As of middle of following month Month Num ber of Obs Days to Data Delivery Mi n Avg Max As of 3/11/08 Number Deliv Number Outstanding Number Deliv Number Outstandin g Mar-07 84 0 1 5 84 0 Apr 07 65 0 1 3 65 0 May-07 54 0 1 8 54 0 Jun-07 69 0 1 3 69 0 Jul-07 83 0 1 3 83 0 Aug-07 61 0 1 14 61 0 Sep-07 76 0 1 16 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 Jan-08 98 0 1 3 98 0 Feb-08 145 0 1 11 145 0 19 September 2007 CXC Status Report/CUC Notes 14

Grant Award Effectiveness Month of Data Delivery Federal Grants (1, 3) Mar-07 SAO Grants (2) As of middle of following month As of 3/18/08 Non. Federal Grants (3) No. Grants Awarded No. Outstandin g Avg days to award (4) No. Grants Awarded No. Outsta nding 0 14 1 13 9 14 0 Apr-07 0 11 2 9 16 11 0 May-07 1 10 7 3 10 10 0 Jun-07 1 16 15 1 18 16 0 Jul-07 0 13 11 2 17 13 0 Aug-07 1 17 6 11 32 17 0 Sep-07 3 11 2 9 15 11 0 Oct-07 2 12 8 4 19 12 0 Nov-07 0 6 3 3 9 6 0 Dec-07 0 41 33 8 12 41 0 Jan-08 7 51 33 18 36 51 0 10 9 1 26 9 1 Feb-08 0 (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 19 September 2007 to grant award to observer. CXC Status Report/CUC Outstanding Awards Proposal no, Comments 9700400