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RELEASE NOTES FOR HEASOFT 6.1.1
September 12, 2006
&
Swift XRT patch
September 21, 2006
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The HEASoft 6.1.1 release is primarily driven by the release of the Suzaku
software version 1.2.
As for previous HEASOFT releases, configuration-related changes throughout
the package means that users who already have HEASoft v6.X installed will
need to completely replace their software installation; there is no clean
way to simply overlay this new release or to update an existing installation.
A patch for the Swift XRT software was included on 21 September 2006.
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HEASARC
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rbnpha:
- Fixed uninitialized variable which caused memory errors.
xselect
- Update the Suzaku default for GTI in xselect.mdb
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SUZAKU
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Suzaku software v 1.2. Includes new tasks, changes and bug fixes :
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General tools
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aeaspect :
- Add new parameters, 'date_obs' and 'date_end', to specify the start/end
of the observation in the calculation of the mean satellite Euler angles.
- Add new parameter 'update_date' to propagate DATE_OBS/END keywords.
- Support CALDB for 'leapfile', '*_teldef' parameters.
aebarycen :
- New task. Apply Barycenter correction for Suzaku EVENT and/or HK files.
aecoordcalc :
- Support CALDB for 'leapfile', '*_teldef' parameters.
aemkehk :
- Support CALDB for 'leapfile', 'teldef' parameters.
aemkreg :
- New task. Generate a ds9 format region file for given satellite
Euler angles. Rough XIS and HXD field of views are drawn by default.
aetimecalc :
- Support CALDB for 'leapfile' parameter.
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HXD specific tools
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hxdmkgainhist :
- Change. The dummy_256ch.rsp is not longer used in fittings
- Add parameters for fittings the GSO data
- Add flag to delete or not temporary files
- Change in the perl script hxdmkgainhist_gso
- Change. Implement dynamic memory.
hxdgtigen :
- New task, Provides GTI to avoid telemetry saturation
hxddtcor :
- New task, Perform dead time correction to PHA file(s)
hxdmkbstlc :
- New task, Make light curve(s) of HXD-BURST event.
hxdmkwamlc :
- New task, Make light curve(s) of HXD-WAM event.
hxdmkwamspec :
- New task, Make spectra of HXD-WAM event.
hxdtime :
- Change. Implement dynamic memory
hxdpi :
- Include current calibration of energy scale of GSO and PIN
- Set null value in PI_PIN for PIN Upper discriminated events
- Change function in reading gain history files
- Bug fix. Values in the PI_SLOW and PI_FAST previously set to
'INDEF' are now set to 0.0.
- Change. Implement dynamic memory.
hxdscltime:
- Portability related changes.
hxdmkwamgainhist :
- Change the output file format
hxdgrade :
- Change criteria of the multiplicity of GRADE
- Parameterize the criteria of PSD selection
- Change. Implement dynamic memory.
hxdbsttime :
- Delete minor warnings
- Bug fixed in reading leapsec FITS
hxdarfgen :
- Bug fix in the parameter query.
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*** NOTE:
- hxdmkgainhist and hxdmkwamlc are not currently supported for
OSF/Alpha platform.
- hxdmkwamlc has a known bug on Solaris platforms, e.g. some of the
rates are incorrect.
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XIS specific tools
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xisputpixelquality :
- Bug fix in calculation of the 'STATUS' column of event files.
Some pixels had been incorrectly calculated as
e.g. STATUS=65536+16+16=65568, which is now 65536+16=65552.
xisucode :
- Updates. Calculate the appropriate value for header keyword TIMEDEL.
xistime :
- Fix bugs on the time calculation of the EXPTIME and TIME column.
However, the absolute timing is still not calibrated well.
Note : For burst mode, the GTI do not account for the dead time
xispi :
- Portability-related changes.
xiscoord :
- Portability-related changes.
xissimarfgen :
- New task. Calculate the ARF by the XRT ray-tracing simulation.
xissim :
- New task. Generate a simulated XIS event file for input photon file(s)
made by the mkphlist task, by the XRT ray-tracing and the XIS RMF.
xiscontamicalc :
- New task. Calculate the carbon column density and transmission of
the XIS OBF contaminant at specified time, detector position, and energy.
Note: The XIS software have been changed to use 'GTI' as name for the good
time intervals rather than 'STDGTI'.
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XRT specific tools
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xrthkproc :
- skip duplicate records in the header file that occur when the Bias
map is dumped before the daily check-out.
Help lines: FTOOLS or xanprob@athena.gsfc.nasa.gov
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