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15 Nov 2022 [New]

CalDB 4.10.2 has been released to the public. Included in this release is the latest ACIS OBF Contamination (CONTAM) model (v N0015) upgrade, which adjusts for recent (2020-2022) increases in the contamination rate relative to the older model (v N0014). See the CalDB 4.10.2 Release Notes for details.

16 Jun 2022

CalDB 4.9.8 has been released to the public. Included in this release are PCAD ALIGN file updates (18 new files, six-month intervals, extending from 2013-2021); HRC-I/Grating angle corrections in the PIXLIB GEOM file vN0007; HRC-S QE Uniformity upgrade version N0016 with and additional new file for new observations. See the CalDB 4.9.8 Release Notes for details.

24 Mar 2022

CalDB 4.9.7 has been released to the public. Included in this release are ACIS T_GAIN upgrades for Epochs 85+86 (effective 2021-05-02, finalized) and epochs 87+88 (effecive 2021-11-01, provisional), and expanded FP_TEMP boundary conditions for certain ACIS CalDB files applicable to current and future datasets, to accommodate warmer ACIS calibration observations to be taken in the near future. See the CalDB 4.9.7 Release Notes for details.

24 Sep 2021

CalDB 4.9.6 has been released to the public. Included in this release are ACIS T_GAIN upgrades for Epochs 83+84 (effective 2020-11-01, finalized) and epochs 85+86 (effecive 2021-05-02, provisional), HRC-S T_GMAPs v4, QE v16, and QEU v15, as well as HRC-I QE v13. See the CalDB 4.9.6 Release Notes for details.

29 Apr 2021

CalDB 4.9.5 has been released to the public. Included in this release are ACIS T_GAIN upgrades for Epochs 81+82 (effective 2020-05-02, finalized) and epochs 83+84 (effecive 2020-11-01, provisional), as well as a new ACIS-S3 CTI correction file for observations taken since 2020-01-01. HRC-I/LETG +/- 1st order LSF parameter files have also been added. See the CalDB 4.9.5 Release Notes for details.

16 Dec 2020

CalDB 4.9.4 has been released to the public. Included in this release are the ACIS CONTAM N0014 upgrade, an HRC-S QEU N0014 upgrade with 29 new files for the library, and a delayed upgrade to the HRC-S PI Region background filter file N0002. See the CalDB 4.9.4 Release Notes for details.