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Last modified: 1 December 2023

URL: https://cxc.cfa.harvard.edu/ciao/releasenotes/ciao_4.7_release.html

CIAO 4.7 Release Notes


Notable changes and improvements in CIAO 4.7:



How CALDB 4.6.9 Affects Your Analysis

CALDB 4.6.9 Release Notes (release 23 September 2015)

ACIS Imaging and Grating Data

HRC Grating and Imaging Data


How CALDB 4.6.8 Affects Your Analysis

CALDB 4.6.8 Release Notes (release 1 July 2015)

ACIS Imaging and Grating Data


How CALDB 4.6.7 Affects Your Analysis

CALDB 4.6.7 Release Notes (release 23 February 2015)

ACIS Imaging and Grating Data


How CALDB 4.6.5 Affects Your Analysis

CALDB 4.6.5 Release Notes (release 16 December 2014)

ACIS Imaging and Grating Data

HRC-I Imaging Data

HRC-S Gratings Data


Installation

Users should be aware of these installation items before installing CIAO 4.7. Additional problems which are seen less frequently are listed on the Installation & Smoke Tests bug page.

Supported Platforms

Updates to the ciao-install Installation Script

Remove old parameter files

IPython Settings


Tools

acis_process_events

ahelp

arfcorr

celldetect

dmcoords

dmdiff

dmellipse

dmextract

dmhedit

dmimghull

dmimgreproject

dmimgthresh

dmkeypar

dmmerge

lim_sens

mkgrmf

tgdetect2

wcs_update


Parameter Files

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

We recommend deleting all the old parameter files or renaming the parameter-file directory before running any new version of CIAO to avoid conflicts. More information is available in the FAQ.

acis_process_events

dmcoords

dmhedit

lim_sens

chandra_repro


ChIPS

print_window

load_colormap

undo/redo

adjust_grid_gaps

make_script

add_colorbar


Sherpa

2D Models

XSPEC xset routines

Upgrade to XSPEC 12.8.2e

datastack


Graphical User Interfaces

prism


Analysis Scripts

apply_fov_limits

chandra_repro

find_chandra_obsid

add_grating_orders

add_grating_spectra


Python Modules

crates

transform


Libraries

datamodel

group

header

region


Environment

Off-the-Shelf (OTS) Package Versions


Documentation