Contents

• Contents
• Science Highlight: Chandra Observations of Ultra-luminous Sources in Starbursts -- Mid-Mass Black Holes or Microquasars?
• Report from the Project Scientist
• CXC Project Manager's Report
• Instruments: ACIS
  • Operations
  • Jupiter
• Instruments: HRC
• Instruments: HETGS
  • Status
  • Science
  • Calibration and Software
  • References and Web pages:
• Instruments: LETG
  • Improvements in Data Analysis
  • Recent papers based on LETG observations
• Calibration Status
  • ACIS
  • HRC-I
  • HETG
  • LETG
  • HRMA
• CIAO 2: New Software and Documentation
  • CIAO Workshops
• Advances in CIAO Interactive Analysis
  • Examples
  • References and Web pages:
• Chandra Data Reprocessing
• The Chandra Data Archive
  • The Data Products' Path to the Archive
  • Versions
  • Of SeqNums, ObsIds, and ObIs
  • Data Distribution
  • Proprietary Period and Public Release
  • Access
• Chandra Uplink Support
  • Mission Statement
  • Scheduling Process
  • Pool Targets
  • User Support Interface
  • Schedule of Events
  • Epilogue
• Communication with the CXC and Chandra Users
  • Newsletter
  • Electronic Bulletins
  • Electronic Announcements
  • Chandra-Users
  • Software Exchange
  • Helpdesk
• Conference: Two Years of Science with Chandra
  • Key Dates:
  • Scientific Organizing Committee:
• Conference: The High Energy Universe at Sharp Focus
• Conference: Neutron Stars in Supernova Remnants (II)
• Conference: Stellar Coronae in the Chandra and XMM-Newton Era
  • Scientific Organizing Committee:
  • Scientific Program:
  • Preliminary Program (Invited Speakers:)
  • Deadlines:
  • Further Information:
• Education and Outreach
• In Pursuit of a ``Target of Opportunity"
• CXC Contact personnel
• Chandra Users' Committee Membership List
• Handy Acronym List
• Important Dates
• Useful URL Addresses
• Helpdesk
• Contents

The Chandra Newsletter currently appears aproximately once a year. We welcome contributions from readers. This issue has been typeset in TEX by Miriam Krauss and Roy Kilgard. The version available via the World Wide Web (WWW) has made use of the `latex2html' program by Nikos Drakos, Computer Based Learning Unit, University of Leeds. The editor of `Chandra News' is Nancy Remage Evans.

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