Hello chandra-users,
The CIAO team has released an update to 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) fluximage - NEW!
http://cxc.harvard.edu/ciao/ahelp/fluximage.html
* The fluximage script creates an exposure-corrected image for
a single observation in one or more bands. If you are analyzing a
single observation - so do not need to merge observations - then
fluximage should be used instead of merge_all.
Please see "ahelp fluximage" and the exposure map threads
[http://cxc.harvard.edu/ciao/threads/imag.html] for more
information and examples.
o) specextract:
http://cxc.harvard.edu/ciao/ahelp/specextract.html
* bug fixes: the script no longer crashes or fails when handling a
large number of sources or large stacks of input files are used.
* bug fix: the script correctly selects the mkrmf tool for the
required cases (e.g. -110 C data taken on a front-illuminated CCD).
o) chandra_repro:
http://cxc.harvard.edu/ciao/ahelp/chandra_repro.html
* records the CALDB version used in the reprocessing as a comment
keyword in the file header
o) ciao_contrib.runtool
* includes the new fluximage script.
* parameter values can now be set to an array of values to support
those tools which accept stacks.
* the module includes initial support for using long (more than
1023 characters) parameter values (e.g. when using many file
names as a stack input).
* minor changes to the set_pfiles() and new_pfiles_environment()
routines.
o) ciao_stacklib - NEW!
* A module that provides the expand_stack() routine which will
convert a string in CIAO stack format - such as
"a.fits[cols x,y],b.fits[cols x,y]" or "@asol.lis" - into an array
of values.
Elizabeth Galle
for the CIAO team
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