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Important Upcoming Meetings and Proposal Deadlines 
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The deadline for hotel reservations for the 6th Hunstville Gamma-Ray Burst Symposium to be held in Huntsville, Alabama (Oct 20-23) is September 19th. The deadline for proposals for the Concept Studies for Human Tended Suborbital Science component of NASA's Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Sciences (ROSES) - 2008 is October 8th. The anticipated deadline for proposals for the XMM-Newton Eighth Announcement of Opportunity (AO-8) is October 10th. The deadline for abstract submission of oral contributions for the Second International SIMBOL-X Symposium to be held in Paris, France (Dec 2-5) is October 12th. The deadline for proposals for the Swift Guest Investigator - Cycle 5 component of NASA's Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Sciences (ROSES) - 2008 is October 15th.
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JHU hosted a one-day symposium for local astronomers to celebrate the three years of science with Suzaku The Fermi project has released the Fermi LAT Monitored Source List. This list provides daily and weekly fluxes for sources which are being monitored by the LAT, along with bright transients. A point source only exclusion mask for temperature maps has been delivered by the WMAP team. Suzaku Cycle 4 regular and Key Project proposals are due on Dec 5, 2008 XIS Caldb updated. Update versions 20080905... 12.4.0an released on 03 Sep 2008; fix for energies command ... ABC guide to XMM-Newton data analysis for SAS v8.0 ISOC is preparing the release of the Announcement of Opportunity for AO-7. Key milestones are shown on the web page linked above. 12.4.0ak,al,am released on 28 Aug 2008; fix for cutoffpl model, xsFortran.cxx subroutine, support for Fermi/GLAST GBM data ... The GLAST mission has been renamed the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope in honor of Enrico Fermi, one of the leading physicists of the 20th century The Viewing tool has been updated to support XMM-Newton AO-8. Deadline 10 October 2008 spacecraft clock correction file updated in General SpaceCraft (SC) data (update 25 August 2008)... HXD updated. Update versions 20080811... This XMM-Newton source catalog (Watson et al. 2008) is now available in Browse CFITSIO Version 3.10 released, containing substantial enhancements over the previous version, fixes some potential buffer overflows, more ... GALEX UV survey GR4 images may not be available at this time due to hardware [...] SkyView operations were interrupted Monday afternoon August 18, 2008 due to a local network problem. [...] New location for RXTE realtime and pseudo-production data retrieval. We have completed changes to SkyView to accommodate FIRST data changes at the MAST archive. [...] The report of this panel, who reviewed the HEASARC and other astrophysics archives, is now available Details for proposers. This radio source catalog (Massardi et al. 2008, MNRAS, 384, 775) is now available in Browse WMAP has supplied a web tool that calculates the effective frequency of each of its frequency bands given one or more spectral indices. 12.4.0aj released on 31 Jul 2008; fix for energies command ... updated browse_extract_wget.pl - fixed syntax error causing the fields parameter in the created query to be ignored ... The latest version of SkyView has a new capability for drawing overlays on SkyView images. [...] spacecraft clock correction file updated in General SpaceCraft (SC) data (update 30 July 2008)... SkyView gets the underlying data for the FIRST data from the MAST archive. They have [...] Microsoft has formatted a set of maps for their Worldwide Telescope 3D visualization application. Updated July 28 2008; bug fixes, more ... July 29th, 2008 is the 50th anniversary of the establishment of NASA This Chandra catalog (Wang et al. 2008, ApJ, 675, 464) is now available in Browse IXO study supercedes Constellation-X and XEUS activities 12.4.0ai released on 24 July 2008; fix for save model command ... 12.4.0ah released on 23 July 2008; fix for flux command when used with the err option ... At its meeting at ESAC on June 11 and 12, 2008, the INTEGRAL User Group recommended a new scheme for the distribution of the Open Time that means significant changes for the organization of AO-7 and future AOs. The long-term schedule for the middle 5 months of AO-3 period is available Update 16 July 2008: added a new leap second into leapsec_150708.fits file. The bug that caused the incorrect values of FITS CRVAL keywords for fixed projections (described [...] 12.4.0ag released on 14 Jul 2008; fixes for kerrd and nsa additive models ... HXD, XIS, and XRT CALDB have been updated. Update versions 20080709 for all 3 instruments... Guest Observer proposals, and Archive and Theory proposals SkyView is currently putting incorrect values in the FITS CRVAL keywords of the fixed projections. [...] 12.4.0ae and af patches released on 8 Jul 2008; af improves xsect and cosmo commands more ... This catalog (Trump et al. 2006) is now available in Browse Released 2-Jul-2008; bug fixes, new option out_file to skymap, more ... Released 30-Jun-2008; primarily driven by the release of the Swift (version 2.9) software, but also includes to several libraries and packages which have been revised to mirror the current development versions in use at the HEASARC, more... Dr. Alan Smale has been appointed Director This catalog (Puccetti et al. 2006) is now available in Browse Now a single organization that will use the name HEASARC XRT (update 09 May 2008) and general SpaceCraft (SC) data (update 17 June 2008)... We are working on the capability to enable users to incorporate their own data into [...] A new HEASARC service lets you know when new data are available in the archive for any source in which you might be interested. NASA announces the INTEGRAL AO-6 US Guest Observer Program. Details of this program can be found on our "Proposals and Tools" webpage. The INTEGRAL AO-6 General Programme, as recommended by the Time Allocation Committee (TAC) and approved on the 3rd of June by the ESA Director of Science and Robotic Exploration (Prof. David Southwood) has been released. 12.4.0ac and ad patches released on 17 Jun 2008; ac fixes a conflict with dummyrsp and plot, and ad lowers the maximum temperature for the vapec and bvapec models, more ... Update 16 June 2008: XIS, XRT CALDB index files (caldb.indx) have been updated. This corrects an error in the previous release (20080602) of the XRT and XIS CALDB. Response matrices made with the previous (20080602) caldb are in error at energies less than 2 keV... Error in June 2 release of CALDB, and new & improved PIN non X-ray background files This catalog (Wolk et al. 2008) is now available in Browse 12.4.0ab patch released on 10 Jun 2008; adds the goodness option to the tclout command, more ... This afternoon we released the new Jar version 2.4b of SkyView. The changes are predominantly [...] Best wishes for a long and successful mission! The current SkyView JAR files were compiled using Java 1.5. We’re likely to move [...] The updated version of the Slew Catalog is now available in Browse INTEGRAL participated in the 2008 NASA Senior Review. In their report, the Senior Review Committee recognized the unique capabilities of INTEGRAL in the hard X-ray and soft gamma-ray regime as well as its important synergy with the upcoming GLAST mission. As a result, the committee recommended continuing NASA funding for INTEGRAL through FY10. This Chandra catalog (McGowan et al. 2008, MNRAS, 383, 330) is now available in Browse xTime has been enhanced to accept and display times with up to millisecond accuracy and to optionally incoporate mission-specific time corrections. Update 02 June 2008: XIS, XRT and HXD calibration data have been updated... This XMM-Newton catalog (Brunner et al. 2008, A+Ap, 479, 283) is now available in Browse The 7th INTEGRAL Workshop has been announced. It will be held 8-11 September 2008 in Copenhagen, Denmark. The Viewing tool has been enhanced with support for Swift's orbital pole constraints. Application deadline is May 9 This catalog (Clark et al. 2008) is now available in Browse 12.4.0aa patch released on 01 May 2008; fakeit command bug fix, more ... UVOTA (updated 28 Apr 2008) and general SpaceCraft (SC) data updated... (Updated Apr 14 2008) includes revised effective area curves for future missions Constellation-X and XEUS, as well as updated curves for Swift UVOT (except grisms) and for INTEGRAL ISGRI and JEM-X ... ABC guide to XMM-Newton data analysis for SAS>7.1 XMM 2008 NASA Senior Review science section The updated 2008 version is now available in Browse new version of the object oriented interface to the cfitsio library, more ... 12.4.0y patch released on 23 Apr 2008; bug fixes relating to the case where a fit parameter is pegged in a Lev-Marq fit, more ... The CGRaBS Catalog is now available in Browse 12.4.0x patches released on 21 Apr 2008; updated for HEASOFT 6.4.1 Released 21-Apr-2008; release of the Suzaku (version 8) software, but also includes Suzaku-related updates to xselect/extractor, bugfixes, more... Updated 15-Apr-2008; Windows native printing, gui enhancements, more... HESSCAT is now available in Browse Update 01 Apr 2008: XIS and HXD calibration data have been updated, no foolin'... 12.4.0u,v,w patches released; model, weight command updated Swift SC and BAT CALDB updated, more... The long-term schedule for the first 4 months of AO-3 period is available 12.4.0s,t patches released; plot efficiency, data commands updated Optical Monitor data and a source catalog are available 12.4.0q,r patches released 12.4.0n,o,p patches released; Levenberg-Marquardt fitting, xmmpsf and suzpsf mixing components, other fixes 12.4.0m patch released; The start-up statistic, method, and weight settings in the user's Xspec.init file were effectively ignored. The list of accepted AO-3 targets is available 12.4.0l patch released; Problem with error command. Download through the SOC or the GSFC Mirror 12.4.0j and 12.4.0k patches released; When loading its model initialization file, XSPEC is not properly parsing model parameters with multi-word unit labels, such as the xi parameter of the pexriv model(12.4.0j). Unfolded spectrum plots (plot ufspec, eufspec, eeufspec) cannot be performed on energy bins with widths smaller than 10^-4 keV. (12.4.0k). Spacecraft (SC) calibration data updated for Swift. 12.4.0h and 12.4.0i patches released; The Y-axis label for plot chisq should include sign(data-model) rather than |data-model| (12.4.0h). Table model calculations ignore theredshift parameter z if it is set to a negative value (12.4.0i). Latest Mission News and Object of Interest - How Many Supernovae Are There in the Milky Way? updated ignore and notice commands in certain contexts, increased response matrix convolution capability.... plot ufspec does not plot spectral data points whose corresponding folded model values are negative.... Spacecraft (SC) calibration data updated for Swift. XIS and HXD calibration data have been updated... DOS-mode scripts (with their extra carriage-return characters) are not properly handled for multi-line commands, more ... ESA has released the Key Programs selected to be observed during the upcoming AO-6 observing cycle. They include observations of the Galactic Center region, the Cygnus region, the Virgo Cluster, the North Ecliptic Pole, and the SMC. bkn model abbreviation fixed ... bug fixes ... new set of effective area curves for Chandra Cycle 10 ... RGS offset values update... Improved Mac OSX 10.5 support, more... Markov Chain Monte Carlo updated, more... XRT calibration data for Swift and HXD calibration data for Suzaku updated. Spacecraft (SC) calibration data updated for Swift. XIS calibration data have been updated... The gabs model is wrong and gives results dependent on the energy bin size. Our thanks to Takao Kitaguchi for pointing this out. Report added on Nov 26, 2007 ... UVOTA calibration data updated for Swift. HXD and XIS on Suzaku, and XRT, UVOTA and SC updated on Swift. When a fakeit run is using a response with first legal channel number (TLMIN4) = 0, and is NOT based on an already existing spectrum, the last channel is erroneously ignored and always ends up with 0 counts. Our thanks to David Morris for pointing this out. Report added on Oct 31, 2007. Infrequent but significant errors can occur in ASM source intensities. XIS and HXD data updated 16-Oct-2007 Updated 15-Oct-2007; tclout plink option change, more... Updated 24-Sep-2007; patch release primarily for the Swift (version 2.7.2) software, but also includes an update to the XTE task 'pcabackest', more... Updated 20-Aug-2007; some output formatting improvements, more... Listed by RA. The nH tool has been updated with support for additional coordinate systems. Viewing tool updated to support Swift Cycle 4. The AKBAR system has been renamed ARK: the Astrophysics Research Knowledgebase Added a progress box on the tabbed results display page to show how many tables have been processed. When processing is complete the table and row totals are displayed. Viewing tool updated to support XMM-Newton AO-7. |
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