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URL: https://cxc.cfa.harvard.edu/ciao/releasenotes/ciao_4.6.1_release.html

CIAO 4.6 Release Notes


Notable changes and improvements in CIAO 4.6.1:

[New]Sherpa was patched in CIAO 4.6.1 to correct problems when working in units of wavelength (Å)



How CALDB 4.6.3 Affects Your Analysis

CALDB 4.6.3 Release Notes (release 29 Aug 2014)

ACIS Imaging and Grating Data

HRC-S Gratings Data


How CALDB 4.6.2 Affects Your Analysis

CALDB 4.6.2 Release Notes (release 9 Jul 2014)

[WARNING]
HRC-S QEU Index Issues

Two issues have been identified with the HRC-S QEU file selection, and will be fixed in CalDB 4.6.3.

  • An error in the CalDB index for HRC-S/LETG QEU files causes the wrong file to be selected for HRC-S observations since 2014 January 01. Subsequently, the calculated grating ARFs will underestimate fluxes by ~5%.

  • An error in the CalDB index for all HRC-S QEU files causes the incorrect QEU file to be selected for observations between 1999 September 01 to 2000 January 01. This error has been present since CalDB 4.4.0 (December 2012) and causes the calculated ARFs to overestimate fluxes by ~6.5%.

More information and workarounds to the issue can be found on the CALDB caveats page: "HRC-S QEU File Selection Problems".

ACIS Imaging and Grating Data


How CALDB 4.6.1.1 Affects Your Analysis

Most users are not affected by this minor technical update to the CALDB.

CALDB 4.6.1.1 Release Notes (release 9 Apr 2014)

HRC Imaging Data


How CALDB 4.6.1 Affects Your Analysis

CALDB 4.6.1 Release Notes (release 26 Mar 2014)

ACIS Imaging and Grating Data

HRC Imaging Data

ACIS and HRC PSF Libraries


How CALDB 4.5.9 Affects Your Analysis

CALDB 4.5.9 Release Notes (release 19 Nov 2013)

ACIS Imaging and Grating Data

HRC-I Imaging Data


Installation

Users should be aware of these installation items before installing CIAO 4.6.1. 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_build_badpix

acis_detect_afterglow

acis_process_events

acis_classify_hotpix

acis_find_hotpix

acis_run_hotpix

acis_streak_map

dmhedit

destreak

dmmerge

eff2evt

mkacisrmf

mkarf

mkarf

mkinstmap

mkgarf

mkwarf

mkpsfmap

pget

modelflux

reproject_aspect

roi

skyfov

srcextent

tgdetect

tgdetect2

tg_choose_method

tg_findzo

tgdetect

tgextract2

tg_findzo


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_build_badpix

acis_process_events

eff2evt

mean_energy_map

mkacisrmf

mkarf

mkgarf

mkinstmap

mkwarf

tgdetect

fluximage

specextract

merge_obs

flux_obs

fullgarf

mktgresp


ChIPS

load_colormap

make_script

set_preference

GUI

split

load_state

set_data_aspect_ratio

annotations

redo

axes

add_image

undo

add_region

print_window

grid_objects

General

set_colorbar


Sherpa

Template Models

XSPEC models

I/O

statistics

filter

models

Exception handling

Other


Graphical User Interfaces

peg

prism

obsvis


Analysis Scripts

specextract

srcflux

chandra_repro

r4_header_update

psfsize_srcs

src_psffrac

dax

reproject_obs

acis_bkgrnd_lookup

search_csc

fullgarf

mktgresp

merge_all

mkBgreg.pl and mkSubBgReg.pl

ciao_contrib.runtool

chips_contrib.helix

crates_contrib.utils.add_keyval


Python Modules

pycrates

pycaldb

pypsf

pyregion


Libraries

Header

Transform

Datamodel

Region

CALDB

cxcparam


Environment

Off-the-Shelf (OTS) Package Versions


Documentation