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Matching CIAO and CALDB Versions

CIAO 3.4 requires CALDB 3.3.0 or higher to operate properly.

CALDB 3.4.0 and higher should not be used unless you are running CIAO 3.4 or CIAO 4.0.

Are your versions mismatched? Time to update CIAO and CALDB!

News Previous Items

11 Nov 2008

These are the webpages relative to the CIAO 3.4 release (18 December 2006). They are no longer actively updated, however the CXC will continue limited support of CIAO 3.4 for the near future.

CIAO 3.4 users should check the CALDB 3 website for compatible calibration updates.

15 Dec 2008

The newest version of the Chandra Interactive Analysis of Observations software, is CIAO 4.1, released on 15 December 2008. Read the release notes for detailed information. This release requires that CALDB 4.1.0 be installed for the software to work correctly.

5th Chandra/CIAO Workshop Program Schedule

Wednesday, 29 October 2003

9:00-9:05

Welcome (Harvey Tananbaum)

9:05-9:20

Chandra Overview (Dan Schwartz)

9:20-10:20

Introduction to X-Ray Data Analysis (Randall Smith)

10:20-10:40

Coffee Break

10:40-11:00

Introduction to CIAO (Antonella Fruscione)

11:00-11:30

Sherpa: CIAO's Modeling and Fitting Application (Aneta Siemiginowska)

11:30-12:00

Source Detection (Frank Primini)

12:00-1:30

Lunch

1:30-2:30

Statistics in the X-ray Regime (Peter Freeman)

2:30-2:50

Aspect Issues (Tom Aldcroft)

2:50-3:10

ChaRT: the Chandra Ray Tracer (Margarita Karovska)

3:10-3:20

Introduction to the Hands-on Session (Liz Galle)

3:20

Coffee Break; Hands-on Session starts

6:30

Hands-on Session ends
Fun group outing led by Jonathan McDowell begins

Thursday, 30 October 2003

9:00-9:20

Chandra Calibration (Larry David)

9:20-9:50

Analysis of Point-Like Sources (Doug Burke)

9:50-10:20

Grating Analysis (Nancy Brickhouse)

10:20-10:40

Coffee Break

10:40-11:00

Analysis of Extended Sources (Mike Wise)

11:10-11:30

Timing Analysis (Mike Nowak)

11:30

Hands-on Session starts;
breaks for lunch and afternoon coffee

5:30

Hands-on Session ends
Visitors may participate in the CfA's celebration of Oktoberfest

Friday, 31 October 2003

9:00-9:30

Scripting in CIAO (John Houck)

9:30-10:00

Pileup Modeling (John Davis)

10:00

Coffee Break; Hands-on Session starts;
breaks for lunch and afternoon coffee

4:30

Workshop ends