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Last modified: 24 November 2010

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What's New?

November 2010

CSC release 1.1 interface updates

CSCview now features a crossmatch function which allows you to locate CSC counterparts to sources of interest by uploading, transmitting, or directly entering a table of source positions (and optionally, position errors) to the GUI. To use the CSCview crossmatch, launch CSCview from the CSC homepage and select "Crossmatch" in the lower-right corner of the Query tab. For help using the crossmatch, refer to the CSCview help page.

[CSCview snapshot]

The CSC-SDSS Cross-match Catalog, the CSC Sensitivity Map Service, and the CSC interface to Sky in Google Earth have been updated to access release 1.1.

August 2010

CSC release 1.1

CSC release 1.1 became available on 11 August 2010. This version extends release 1.0.1 to include point and compact source data extracted from qualifying HRC imaging observations from the start of the mission through December 2009, in addition to recently released 'catch-up' ACIS observations. A new version of CSCview also became available with this release.

ACIS and HRC data

CSC release 1.1 includes 655 new ACIS imaging ObsIDs (-120 degree data only) and 625 HRC-I ObsIDs. There are 106,586 distinct (i.e., "master") sources currently in the catalog, up from 94,676 in release 1.0.1. Of these, 104,628 were detected only in ACIS observations; 1,034 were detected only in HRC-I observations; and 924 were detected in observations made with both detectors.

The "source observation" properties derived from 158,071 source detections in 5,110 Chandra ObsIDS - 152,296 ACIS sources and 5,775 HRC sources - contributed to the "master source" properties contained in the catalog.

Source properties in the catalog which are provided per CSC science energy band include the HRC wide band (0.1 - 10 keV), e.g., flux_aper_w, in addition to the ACIS u, s, m, h, and b energy bands.

CSCview

  • CSCview, the CSC data access GUI application, now supports a SAMP connection via the Send toolbar option. This feature allows you to transmit tables of source data and data files returned by a CSCview query to compatible applications such as SAOImage DS9 and TOPCAT, as demonstrated in the CSC threads.
[SAMP Control window][CSCview Results tab]
  • It is now possible to save a table of CSCview query results in both Tab Separated Values (TSV) and VOTable TABLEDATA format, replacing the Relational Database (RDB) format output by CSCview in release 1.0.1. See example save files cscresults.tsv and cscresults.vot.
[TSV save file][VOTable save file]
  • A new metadata display at the bottom of the CSCview Query and Results tabs lists the name, data type, units, and description of selected source properties, and the product type, product specifier, format, and description of selected data products.
[metadata display]
  • The CSCview Results tab now has a Source Preview feature which allows you to view and save images of sources in selected rows of a query results table. Source region images available in Source Preview include a tricolor soft-medium-broad (red-green-blue) events image, a single-color events image in any of the selected CSC energy bands (ultrasoft, soft, medium, hard, broad, wide), and a PSF image in any CSC energy band. The full-field broad-band events image is available at different blocking factors; they are 1, 2, and 4 for ACIS data, and 2, 5, and 12 for HRC data.
[Source Preview]

Last modified: 24 November 2010
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