CIAO 3.2 Released - 15 December 2004
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The Chandra X-ray Center (CXC) is pleased to announce that version 3.2
of CIAO ("Chandra Interactive Analysis of Observations") and version
3.0.0 of CALDB are now available for download from:
http://cxc.harvard.edu/ciao/download/
They will also be available from the European mirror site at:
http://ledas-cxc.star.le.ac.uk/ciao/download/
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The CIAO 3.2 software release contains a new tool for creating ACIS
response matrices (mkacisrmf), four new ACIS hot pixel tools, and an
enhanced ARDLIB to handle ACIS spatial contamination.
It also includes the latest proposal planning tools for Chandra Cycle 7.
For complete information on this release, please see the full Release
Notes (http://cxc.harvard.edu/ciao/releasenotes/)
which also include a new paragraph "How CIAO 3.2 and CALDB 3.0.0 Affect
Your Analysis".
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In tandem with CIAO3.2 is the release of the Chandra Calibration
Database CALDB 3.0.0 which contains essential elements for CIAO 3.2 to
work properly: new ACIS response, gain, and spatially-dependent
CONTAM files for making RMFs, ARFs, GARFs, and exposure maps.
Information about CALDB 3.0.0 can be found in the Chandra Calibration
Database website at http://cxc.harvard.edu/caldb/
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CIAO3.1 is distributed for the following platforms:
Solaris 2.8
Linux Redhat 6.2
Linux Redhat 8
Mac OS X 10.2.8
More details at http://cxc.harvard.edu/ciao/download/platforms.html
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As always please send questions and requests for enhancements to the CXC
HELPDESK (http://cxc.harvard.edu/helpdesk/)
CIAO3.2 is a collaborative effort between the SAO/CXC Science Data
Systems, the SAO/CXC Data Systems, and MIT/CXC personnel.
Antonella Fruscione (for the CIAO development team)
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