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Last modified: 30 November 2023

URL: https://cxc.cfa.harvard.edu/ciao/releasenotes/ciao_4.0beta1_release.html

CIAO 4.0 Beta 1 Release Notes


The most notable change in CIAO 4.0 Beta 1 is that the ACIS dead area correction is turned on by default; refer to the How CIAO 4.0 Beta 1 and CALDB 3.4.0 Affect Your Analysis section for details. There is a new version of tgextract - named tgextract2 - which provides similar functionality, but allows large and asymmetric regions for better determination of background counts. Significant work has been done on the tool wavdetect, which has two new parameters. The sso_freeze tool has been enhanced so that it can create object-centered aspect solution which, among other uses, allows an object-centered exposure map to be generated. A number of bug fixes to the Data Model library and several CIAO tools are also included.

CIAO 4.0 Beta 1 is the first release of CIAO to be fully GPL compliant. OTS (off-the-shelf) software have been updated to current versions. A set of "smoke test" scripts are included to aid users in verifying installation of the release.

CALDB 3.4.0 is required for the proper operation of CIAO 4.0 Beta 1. CALDB 3.4.0 contains a number of updates, including ACIS time-dependent gain files, updated ACIS blank-sky background files, and HRC-I gain maps.

ChIPS and Sherpa are not included in CIAO 4.0 Beta 1. They will be released in CIAO 4.0 Beta 2 (Summer 2007) and Beta 3 (Fall 2007), respectively.



How CIAO 4.0 Beta 1 and CALDB 3.4.0 Affect Your Analysis

Some tool changes and calibration files released in CIAO 4.0 Beta 1 and CALDB 3.4.0 affect analyses in progress, i.e. a tool or calibration file default has been changed. This section of the release notes describes those changes and which tasks are affected. The changes are arranged by instrument and grating configuration.

ACIS Imaging Data

ACIS Grating Data

HRC-I Imaging and Grating Data

HRC-S Grating Data


Tools

acis_build_badpix

acis_process_events

acis_run_hotpix

aconvolve

acrosscorr

apowerspectrum

arestore

ascii2fits

asphist

axbary

celldetect

csmooth

destreak

dmappend

dmarfadd

dmcontour

dmcoords

dmdiff

dmextract

dmfilth

dmimg2jpg

dmimgpick

dmjoin

dmmakereg

dmmerge

dmpaste

dmsort

dmtcalc

dmtype2split

get_src_region

hrc_dtfstats

lightcurve

mkacisrmf

mkarf

mkgarf

mkinstmap

mkoif

mkwarf

psf_project_ray

specextract

sso_freeze

tg_create_mask

tg_resolve_events

tgdetect

tgextract

tgextract2

vtpdetect

wavdetect

wtransform


Parameter Files

The CIAO 4.0 Beta 1 software establishes a separate local parameter file directory, ~/cxcds_param_beta. This allows users to run both CIAO 3.4 and CIAO 4.0 Beta 1 without having to worry about parameter file conflicts.

A summary of parameter files changes is provided in this section. Refer to the Tools section of these release notes for complete details.

hrc_dtfstats

mkacisrmf

mkarf

mkgarf

mkinstmap

mkwarf

specextract

sso_freeze

wavdetect

wtransform

kernel parameter


Data Model

Bug Fixes

Enhancements


User Interface

Prism

firstlook and filtwin


Libraries

cxcparam

dslib

psflib

regionlib

tcdlib


S-Lang Modules

paramio


Analysis Scripts

The CIAO contributed scripts package is available from the Scripts page and is considered a required part of the installation. The script installation instructions explain where the scripts should be unpacked within the CIAO directory tree.

acis_bkgrnd_lookup v2.0

acis_fef_lookup v1.21

acisspec v4.1

add_grating_orders v2.4

add_grating_spectra v3.3

analyze_ltcrv.sl v1.6

fullgarf v4.1.1

get_sky_limits v1.9

lc_clean.sl v1.10

merge_all v3.7

psextract v4.0.1

Missing Scripts

Obsolete Scripts


Documentation

Download pages

Ahelp

Analysis Threads

Missing Threads

Obsolete Threads