CIAO 3.2.2 patch and CALDB 3.1.0 Released - 23 June 2005
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The Chandra X-ray Center (CXC) is pleased to announce that version 3.2.2
of CIAO ("Chandra Interactive Analysis of Observations") and version
3.1.0 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 3.2.2 patch release contains corrections and enhancements
for the tools:
acis_build_badpix, acis_process_events, acis_run_hotpix,
asphist, hrc_process_events and mkacisrmf.
It also contains several updates to Analysis Threads and Why Topics and
the first version of the Chandra ABC Guide to Pileup.
For complete information on this release, please see the full Release
Notes (http://cxc.harvard.edu/ciao/releasenotes/)
which also includes the section "How CIAO 3.2.2 and CALDB 3.1.0 Affect
Your Analysis" with advice on reprocessing.
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In tandem with CIAO 3.2.2 is the release of the Chandra Calibration
Database CALDB 3.1.0 which contains essential elements for CIAO 3.2.2 to
work properly.
CALDB 3.1.0 includes several calibration improvements for ACIS
Front-Illuminated
chips, the so-called "ACIS N0004" responses suite.
This suite includes upgraded CTI correction, GAINs,
T_GAIN corrections, and a new Phase 2 response (P2_RESP) file -
the input to the CIAO tool mkacisrmf - for *all* the ACIS chips.
Information about CALDB 3.1.0 can be found in the Chandra Calibration
Database website at http://cxc.harvard.edu/caldb/
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CIAO 3.2.2 is distributed for the following platforms:
Solaris 2.8
Linux Redhat 6.2 (compatible with Redhat 7.x and SuSE 7.x)
Linux Redhat 8 (compatible with Redhat 9 and various flavors of Linux)
Mac OS X 10.2.8 (compatible with Panther and Tiger)
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/)
CIAO 3.2.2 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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