Dear ASSCA users, Today, we have installed an ASCA TOO observation of the Gamma-ray burst, GRB990704, urgently. The observation is now in progress and it seems that ASCA is detecting soft X-ray afterglaw. To install this TOO the 50 ksec observation of Abell S295 (PI: katayama) was breaked at 20 ksec. The rest will be supplied in the next visible window. F. Nagase ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- A S C A WEEKLY OBSERVATION PLAN ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- #16: JUNE 26 - JULY 8, 1999 ver-2 (99/ 7/5) (ISAS contact scientist: T. TAMURA (ttamuraa@astro.isas.ac.jp) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date MNV Target Tag. Exp. Observation PI or start name Cat. (ks) Cat. Pri./TC ( PPI/Co-PI) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6/26 0:00 Virgo-east_09 CG 20 JPN 2/n T. Ohashi 6/26 14:10 Virgo-east_10 CG 20 JPN 2/n T. Ohashi 6/27 4:30 PG 1535+547 AGN 40 MUJ 2/n W. Brandt /N. Iyomoto 6/28 4:20 BL Lacertae AGN 100 JUS 2/n M. Tashiro 6/30 18:30 Virgo-east_11 CG 20 JPN 2/n T. Ohashi 7/ 1 8:40 Virgo-east_12 CG 20 JPN 2/n T. Ohashi 7/ 1 22:50 Virgo-east_13 CG 20 JPN 2/n T. Ohashi 7/ 2 11:40 A 2697 CG 40 JPN 1/n Y. Tanaka 7/ 3 16:30 A 141 CG 40 JPN 1/n Y. Tanaka 7/ 4 19:20 Abell S295 CG 20 JPN 2/n H. Katayama 7/ 5 8:20 GRB 990704 CXB 30 TOO 1/Y T. Murakami 7/ 6 3:10 NGC 5129 CG 98 MUJ 1/n D. Davis /T. Tamura (7/ 8 12:00 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, MOT: Observatory Time (Calibration, maintenance), and TOO: Target of Opportunity