CIAO Contributed scripts: 26 October 2010 update

From: Elizabeth Galle (egalle@head.cfa.harvard.edu)
Date: Wed Oct 27 2010 - 17:49:22 EDT


Hello chandra-users,

The CIAO team is pleased to announce the 26 October 2010 release of the
CIAO contributed science tarfile. The new tarfile may be download via
ciao-install (http://cxc.harvard.edu/ciao/download/) or from the CIAO
Contributed Scripts Page (http://cxc.harvard.edu/ciao/download/scripts/).

The changes in this release are:

o) make_psf_asymmetry_region
http://cxc.harvard.edu/ciao/ahelp/make_psf_asymmetry_region.html

The make_psf_asymmetry_region tool creates a region file indicating the
location of the PSF asymmetry found in HRC and ACIS data, as discussed
in the "Probing higher resolution: an asymmetry in the Chandra PSF" data
caveat:
     http://cxc.harvard.edu/ciao/caveats/psf_artifact.html

o) download_chandra_obsid
http://cxc.harvard.edu/ciao/ahelp/download_chandra_obsid.html

The download_chandra_obsid tool provides easy command-line downloads of
public Chandra data, e.g.

download_chandra_obsid 459
download_chandra_obsid 1843 evt2,asol,bpix,fov

Elizabeth Galle
for the CIAO team



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