CIAO 4.0.2 Release Notes

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Analysis Notes

Matching CIAO and CALDB Versions

CIAO 4.1 requires CALDB 4.1 to operate properly.

CALDB 4.1 should not be used unless you are running CIAO 4.1.

Are your versions mismatched? Update CIAO and CALDB!

News

Previous Items

03 Nov 2009

A new version of the Contributed Scripts and Modules tarfile has been released; download the updated package from the Scripts page.

02 Oct 2009

CIAO 4.1.2 is not officially supported on the Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) platform, but there is a workaround for installing the software in the Unsupported Platforms section of the Platforms page

17 Sep 2009

CALDB has been updated to v4.1.4.

Information on the release is available from the CALDB 4.1.4 Release Notes and How CALDB 4.1.4 Affects Your Analysis.

Download CALDB 4.1.4

CIAO 4.0.2: Mac OS X 10.5 Intel

The CIAO 4.0.2 patch enables CIAO to run on Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) Intel. The patch file may be applied to CIAO 4.0 or 4.0.1.

The patch is optional for Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) Intel machines. Users who choose to install it will get updated versions of ds9 and XPA, as well as a fix to the Data Model.

We currently do not support CIAO on Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) PowerPC. Please contact the Helpdesk if you are interested in having this version of CIAO available.

User Interface

The 10.5 Intel release includes the Leopard ports of ds9 v5.1 and XPA v2.1.9, along with several updates to the UI applications ChIPS and Prism.

Data Model

NaN values were not being recognized as such; they were instead handled as very small numbers (1.06x10^-314). This example is a case where the bug may have been seen:

unxi% dmcopy infile=file.fits"[bin (#1,#2)=2][(#1,#2)=circle(25,25,25)][opt null=nan]" \
      outfile=filtered.fits

This bug only affected users on Mac OS X Intel.