CIAO 4.0.1 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

ObsVis

The CIAO 4.0.1 patch contains improvements to the proposal-planning tool ObsVis.

Changes to ObsVis

Highlights include:

Implementation of new grouping, "grid", which allows the user to create and manipulate rectangular regular grids of fields-of-view (FOVs). Users can resize, move and rotate the grid as well as add, remove, and modify single grid members.
Group members can have attributes synchronized so that the changes of one FOV in group are mirrored by other members.
Improved checking to prevent members of a synchronized group from occupying the same ds9 frame and members of a compound group from occupying different frames.

There are also a number of user interface upgrades, including:

capability chip labels on and off
a new preference setting for node boundaries colors
the target point marker size reflects dither pattern size for selected instrument
name resolution from target name input

Standalone ObsVis

There is a standalone version of ObsVis that does not require CIAO be available on the user's system. This version of the application is designed for non-CIAO users who are writing a Chandra proposal. The standalone ObsVis is available for download from the ObsVis website.