Dear ASCA users, Please find attached the ASCA short-term observation schedule for the period of April 23 to May 5. In this span, a long (300 ksec over a week) campaign observation of Mkn 421 is allocated. F. Nagase ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- A S C A WEEKLY OBSERVATION PLAN ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- April 23 - May 5, 1998, ver-1 (98/ 3/18) (ISAS contact scientist: M. OZAKI (ozaki@astro.isas.ac.jp) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date MNV Target Tag. Exp. Observation PI or start name Cat. (ks) Cat. Pri./TC ( PPI/Co-PI) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4/23 1:50 LBQS2111-4335 AGN 25 MUJ 1/n W. Brandt /TBD 4/23 22:40 Mkn 421 AGN 300 JPN 1/Y T. Takahashi 4/30 20:00 IRASF09039+0503 Gal. 50 JPN 1/n T. Nakagawa 5/ 2 2:10 Mrk 704 AGN 40 USJ 1/n K. Leighly 5/ 3 2:40 A 1430 CG 60 MUJ 2/n J. Burns /TBD 5/ 4 13:10 Mrk 142 AGN 30 USJ 1/n K. Leighly (5/ 5 8:20, MNV to next target) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Note) Obs. Cat. JPN: Japan time, US: US time, JUS: Japan-US Collaboration, USJ: US-Japan Collaboration, MJU: Merged Japan-US (PPI=Japan), MUJ: Merged US-Japan (PPI=US), ESJ: ESA-Japan Program, OT: Observatory Time (Calibration, maintenance and TOO)