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CIAO 4.1 Release Notes


[New] (27 Mar 2009) CALDB 4.1.2 has been released.

[New] (15 Jan 2009) CIAO 4.1 has been patched to CIAO 4.1.1.

CIAO 4.1.1 Release Notes


CIAO 4.1 features a complete, non-beta version of Sherpa, the modeling and fitting package. There are several new features in this release of Sherpa and many improvements since Sherpa Beta; the About the Sherpa Release page highlights new items and outlines a few features still missing in comparison to Sherpa 3.4.

Other notable changes in CIAO 4.1 are:



How CALDB 4.1.2 Affects Your Analysis

Some calibration files released in CALDB 4.1.2, released on 27 March 2009, affect analyses in progress. This section of the release notes describes those changes and which tasks are affected. The changes are arranged by instrument and grating configuration.

ACIS -120 C Imaging and Grating Data


How CALDB 4.1.1 Affects Your Analysis

Some calibration files released in CALDB 4.1.1, released on 21 January 2009, affect analyses in progress. 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


How CIAO 4.1 and CALDB 4.1 Affect Your Analysis

Some tool changes and calibration files released in CIAO 4.1 and CALDB 4.1 affect analyses in progress. This section of the release notes describes those changes and which tasks are affected.

Compatibility

ACIS CTI_APP Keyword Required

ACIS -120 C Imaging and Grating Data

Change in Directory Structure


Tools

acis_build_badpix

acis_find_hotpix

acis_process_events

acisreadcoor

aprates

axbary

calquiz

destreak

dmellipse

dmgti

dmimg2jpg

dmreadpar

dmregrid

dmstat

eff2evt

hrc_build_badpix

hrc_process_events

lim_sens

mkacisrmf

mkarf

mkexpmap

mkgarf

mkgrmf

mkinstmap

mkpsfmap

mkrmf

mkwarf

mtl_build_gti

psf_project_ray

quizcaldb

reproject_aspect

reproject_events

specextract

tg_create_mask

tg_resolve_events

tgextract

tgextract2

wavdetect

wcs_match

wcs_update

wrecon

wtransform


Parameter Files

The CIAO 4.1 software uses the parameter file directory ~/cxcds_param4. This allows users to run both CIAO 3.4 and CIAO 4.1 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.

ciao.par

dmstat


Data Model

Bug Fixes

ASCII Kernel

Crates Library

Transform Library


ChIPS

Startup Options

CIAO 4.0 State Files

GUI for printing plots

Interactively change the limits of a plot

Fill style for regions and histograms

New symbols in labels

Contours

Annotations

Undo command: bug fixes

Running ChIPS in batch mode

Loading Advanced ChIPS Functions

Additional Enhancements & Bug Fixes


Sherpa

The CIAO 4.1 release includes the a complete, non-beta version of the redesigned Sherpa, the CIAO modeling and fitting application. Sherpa is provided for interactive analysis of Chandra X-ray data; however, it is general enough to be equally useful for analysis of images, spectra and time series from many other missions (even from optical missions such as Hubble).

The redesigned Sherpa is meant to be flexible, modular and extensible. As such, Sherpa is an importable module for both the Python and S-Lang scripting languages, with user interfaces in both languages. Sherpa model, optimization and statistic functions are also available via both C++ and Python for software developers wishing to link such functions directly to their own compiled code. The CIAO 4.1 release of Sherpa also contains many improvements over the beta release of Sherpa that was part of CIAO 4.

For more information on the release, visit the Sherpa website, http://cxc.harvard.edu/sherpa .

Startup Options


GUIs (Graphical User Interfaces)

prism

peg

taskmonitor

ds9 and dax


Libraries

caldb4 and caldb4-module

dmtlib

dslib

pixlib-module_slang

regionlib

tcd-module


Environment

IPython

Eliminated ots/bin from the users path

.ciaorc configuration file

Building from source and building against CIAO

Off-the-Shelf (OTS) Package Versions


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 vCIAO 4.1 - 1.0

acis_fef_lookup vCIAO 4.1 - 1.0

check_ctiapp.sh v1.0

lightcurve scripts vCIAO 4.1 - 1.0


Documentation

CALDB 4 Website

Ahelp

Analysis Threads

Obsolete Threads