Chandra Announcement: SAOTrace 2.0.5 now available; Chandra CalDB version 4.9.3 public release

[Guardado, Karla]

SAOTrace 2.0.5:

SAOTrace 2.0.5 is now available, superseding version 2.0.4. There should be no user-visible changes in this release.

This releases supports more current Linux and MacOS platforms, and provides binary distributions for Linux, as well as a Docker image.

SAOTrace is supported on the following platforms:

• Linux Mint 20
• Debian 10 & 11
• CentOS 7 & 8
• Fedora 34
• Ubuntu 20.04 & 20.10
• MacOS X 10.14 & 10.15

Release Notes:

https://cxc.harvard.edu/cal/Hrma/SAOTrace/ReleaseNotes.html

Installation Instructions:

https://cxc.harvard.edu/cal/Hrma/SAOTrace/Install.html

Main Chandra/SAOTrace page:

https://cxc.harvard.edu/cal/Hrma/Raytrace/SAOTrace.html

Questions? Comments? Please send email to opti...@head.cfa.harvard.edu

To Chandra CIAO 4.12 Users:

The CXC announces the public release of Chandra CalDB version 4.9.3. This upgrade

includes the following items:

* ACIS T_GAIN updates affecting recent OBS_IDs (since 2019-05-02T12:00:00)

* A modified HRC-I GTI_LIM file for the HRC-I Voltage Ramp-up period on 2020-09-29.

For details, please see the CalDB 4.9.3 Release Notes located at:

https://cxc.cfa.harvard.edu/caldb/downloads/Release_notes/CALDB_v4.9.3.html

See also "How CalDB 4.9.3 Affects Your Analysis" at
https://cxc.cfa.harvard.edu/ciao/releasenotes/ciao_4.12.1_release.html#HowCALDB4.9.3AffectsYourAnalysis

To download and install CalDB 4.9.3 on your system, you may use the ciao-install script available at the CIAO web page:
https://cxc.cfa.harvard.edu/ciao/download/

You may also use the Conda installation procedure which is provided here:
https://cxc.cfa.harvard.edu/ciao/download/conda.html

Manual download and installation instructions are also available at http://cxc.harvard.edu/caldb/downloads/

Users who do not wish to download the full CalDB, but would rather access it via the web for their specific observations only, may use the CIAO contributed script "download_obsid_caldb". Note that the web-accessible CalDB may take a day or two to be upgraded to this latest CalDB release.

As always, please send questions and requests for enhancements to the CXC HelpDesk (http://cxc.harvard.edu/helpdesk/).

--

Karla Guardado IT Specialist Chandra Director's Office Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian Office: (617) 495 2638 60 Garden Street | MS 67 | Cambridge, MA 02138

cfa.harvard.edu | Facebook | Twitter | YouTube | Newsletter