Dear ASCA users, I am sending the second short-term schedule of AO5 for the period of January 7 to January 18. We are still under investigation of adjusting and optimizing the long-term timeline for AO5. The long-term timeline will be released in a few days on the ASCA WWW. F. Nagase ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- A S C A WEEKLY OBSERVATION PLAN ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- January 6 -18, 1997 ver-1 (96/12/10) (ISAS contact scientist: K. MITSUDA mitsuda@astro.isas.ac.jp) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date MNV Target Tag. Exp. Observation PI or start name Cat. (ks) Cat. Pri./TC ( PPI/Co-PI) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1/ 6 15:30 PG 1309+355 AGN 60 MUJ 1/n I. George /TBD 1/ 8 5:50 NGC 4941 #2 Gal. 18.7 JPN 2/n Y. Terashima (AO4 suppl.) 1/ 8 18:30 MS 1333.3+1725 CG 35 MUJ 1/n J. Henry /TBD 1/ 9 18:30 A 1775 CG 30 US 2/n R. Mushotzky 1/10 15:20 1ES2344+514 #1 AGN 40 JUS 2/Y T. Takahashi 1/11 15:10 CL 0107+31 CG 100 JPN 1/n K. Yamashita 1/14 8:30 RX 1238-38 CV 60 ESJ 1/n C. Hellier 1/15 21:10 NGC 5506 AGN 40 JPN 2/n I. Hayashi (JPN-JPN) T. Mihara 1/16 19:40 NGC 5347 AGN 40 MUJ 1/n A. Wilson /TBD 1/17 19:30 GB 1428+4217 AGN 40 ESJ 1/n A. Fabian (1/18 19:30 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: Manager's observatory time (Calibration and maintenance)