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The latest meetings added to the HEASARC's Meeting Page are: Chandra Workshop on Accretion Processes in X-Rays: From White Dwarfs to Quasars to be held in Boston, Mass. from July 13 - 15. Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems Conference XX (ADASS XX) to be held in Boston, Mass. from November 7 - 11. 25th Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics to be held in Heidelberg, Germany from December 6 - 10. Upcoming proposal deadlines include: Hubble Space Telescope Cycle 18 Proposals: February 26th, 8:00pm EST Chandra Cycle 12 Proposals: March 18th Astronomy & Physics Research & Analysis Proposals (ROSES-2009): March 26th Strategic Astrophysics Technology Proposals (ROSES-2009): March 26th
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xTime has improved support for the Fermi mission. Registration and abstract submission for this XMM-Newton Science Workshop, to be held in Villafranca, Spain from May 24-26, is now open. RXTE slewing anomaly is resolved. This catalog of Chandra sources (from Hong et al. 2009, ApJ, 706, 223) is now available in Browse. The seven-year WMAP, including power spectra and the likelihood routine, temperature and polarization sky maps, raw and calibrated time-order data, and ancillary instrument data. This catalog of exoplanets (based on the Web catalog of Jean Schneider) is now available in Browse. Registration for the IXO Science Meeting, to be held in Paris, France from Apr 27-29, is now open. This catalog of 1400+ gamma-ray sources and associated data products (produced by the Fermi LAT Collaboration) is now available in Browse. This catalog of 723 INTEGRAL sources (from Bird et al. 2010, ApJS, 186, 1) is now available in Browse. HEXTE Cluster B is currently not rocking. This catalog of 1,000,000+ probable and confirmed QSOs (Flesch 2010) is now available in Browse. Version 6; Mac OSX, IRAF improvements ... Version 12.5.1o; Small fix to calculation of plot emodel/eemodel and eufspec/eeufspec when in setplot wave mode ... Version 3.23; this release contains a number of significant enhancements related to reading and writing compressed FITS files ... The first catalog of Fermi LAT sources has been released and is available in the form of a FITS table for download. Potential Fermi GIs may find this catalog very useful when preparing Cycle 3 proposals (the deadline is Feb 5). This catalog of 600,000+ optical objects with radio/X-ray counterparts (Flesch 2010, PASA, 27, in press) is now available in Browse. The list of proposals and targets recommended by the Swift Cycle 6 Peer Review panel is now available. Scientists are invited to participate in Fermi's guest investigator science program, with proposals due by Feb 5th, 2010. PCA breakdown history and SAA history file updated for the PCA (update 04 Jan 2010)... Studies of two supernova remnants using the Suzaku observatory have revealed high-temperature fireballs that immediately followed the explosions which have retained the imprint of temperatures 10,000 times hotter than the sun's surface. The Swift pole constraints have been updated in the Viewing tool. The revised coefficients extrapolate the trend for the calendar year 2010. The list of XMM-Newton observing proposals accepted by the AO-9 Observing Time Allocation Committee is now available. CIAO 4.2 and CALDB 4.2.0 released, several new CIAO tools, updates to Sherpa, more... We are pleased to be able to announce the availability of a new medium resolution optical survey created by Axel Mellinger. [...] Scientists are invited to participate in Chandra's science program, with proposals due by March 18th, 2010. Version 2.6 of SkyView has been released. The major change is largely invisible to the users. When using the [...] The recently updated version of the Asiago supernova catalog is now available in Browse. The workshop "THE RESTLESS GAMMA-RAY UNIVERSE" will take place in Dublin Castle, Dublin, Ireland, September 27-30, 2010. Presentations from RXTE Workshop held November 5. This Chandra catalog (from Wilkes et al. 2009, ApJS, 185, 433) is now available in Browse. The abstract submission deadline for this meeting (to be held Jun 27-Jul 2) is December 14. The CALDB for the HXD has been updated (update version 20091207) ... HEASOFT 6.8 has significant updates for RXTE users. The Fermi Science Support Center will be hosting a series of hands-on data analysis workshops for anyone interested in getting started on Fermi data analysis. Three Suzaku Updates: PIN Epoch 6, XIS Burst Mode GTI, and New Scripts Released December 3, 2009; primarily driven by updates to the Swift and Suzaku mission software, but also includes updates to several packages which have been revised to mirror the current development versions in use at the HEASARC... PCA breakdown history and SAA history file updated for the PCA (update 02 December 2009)... The CALDB for the HXD has been updated (update versions 20091112) ... The Swift Caldb has been updated for the XRT (update version 20091130) and the SC (update version 20091130)... RXTE Cycle 14 Open-Time Targets from Peer Review are now on the Web. Suzaku Cycle 5 (Stage 1) is now closed. NASA has received 88 proposals for an oversubscription factor of 3.45 The Cosmic Background Explorer, launched on Nov 18, 1989, discovered evidence to support the Big Bang theory and earned a Nobel Prize for scientists John Mather and George Smoot. This XMM-Newton catalog (from Naze 2009, A+A, 506, 1055) is now available in Browse. While astronomers have studied lightweight and heavyweight black holes for decades, the evidence for black holes with intermediate masses has been much harder to come by. Now, astronomers at NASA's GSFC find that an X-ray source in galaxy NGC 5408 represents one of the best cases for a middleweight black hole to date. This Chandra catalog (from Elvis et al. 2009, ApJS, 184, 158) is now available in Browse. This catalog of active galaxies (from Petrosian et al. 2007, ApJS, 170, 33) is now available in Browse. XSPEC 12.5.1n updated Nov 5; Fix to the setplot add feature when viewing folded models while using the energies command. This INTEGRAL catalog (from Beckmann et al. 2009, A+A, 505, 417) is now available in Browse. PCA breakdown history and SAA history file updated for the PCA (update 02 November 2009)... Two so-called "starburst" galaxies plus a satellite of our own Milky Way galaxy, representing a new category of gamma-ray-emitting objects, have been detected both by Fermi and ground-based observatories. This catalog (from Mauerhan et al. 2009, ApJ, 703, 30) is now available in Browse. During its first year of operations, NASA's Fermi Gamma Ray Space Telescope mapped the extreme sky with unprecedented resolution and sensitivity. This GALEX catalog (from Trammell et al. 2007, AJ, 133, 1780) is now available in Browse. This Chandra catalog (from Wright and Drake 2009, ApJS, 184, 84) is now available in Browse. This XMM-Newton catalog (from Shaw Greening et al. 2009, A+A, 495, 733) is now available in Browse. XSPEC 12.5.1h,i,j,k,l,m updated Oct 16; batch mode script fix, others ... Updated 15-Oct-2009; Snow Leopard support, other features... Switch from JEM-X1 to JEM-X2 and 14th SPI annealing. Students from India and South Africa have been selected as the winners of the European Space Agency's 'Be an INTEGRAL astronomer' competition. This ROSAT catalog (from Rutledge et al. 2000, ApJS, 131, 335) is now available in Browse. RXTE Workshop to be held Thursday, Nov. 5 in Washington, D.C. This ROSAT catalog (from Haakonsen and Rutledge 2009, ApJS, 184, 138) is now available in Browse. The CALDB for the HXD has been updated (update versions 20091007) ... The Swift Caldb has been updated for the UVOT (update version 20090930) and the SC (update version 20090930)... PCA breakdown history and SAA history file updated for the PCA (update 05 October 2009)... SkyView is now using the DR7 release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) surveys. It doesn’t appear that there [...] RXTE has resumed a normal observation schedule The ESA Director of Science and Robotic Exploration (Prof. David Southwood) has approved the recommendation of the Time Allocation Committee (TAC) for proposals to obtain data rights to targets within AO-7 observations. The CALDB for the XIS has been updated (update versions 20090925) ... RXTE slews are disabled while team investigates a spacecraft anomaly As of 16:30 UT 22-Sep-2009, Swift is back to normal operations (GCN Circular 9928). The deadline for Swift Cycle 6 Guest Investigator Program is fast approaching. Due to a software problem, the BAT instrument stopped processing science data at about 10:30 UT on 17 Sept. 2009 (GCN Circular 9922). Consequently, BAT is not detecting new GRBs at this time, and UVOT is not making observations. XRT is largely unaffected. In a break from its usual task of searching for distant cosmic explosions, NASA's Swift satellite has acquired the highest-resolution view of the neighboring spiral galaxy M31 (the Andromeda Galaxy) ever obtained in the ultraviolet. XSPEC 12.5.1e,f,g updated Sep 14; abundances, XSparse, setplot area fix ... The Fermi Science Support Center will host a hands-on data analysis workshop for anyone interested in getting started with Fermi data analysis. A spacecraft anomaly caused a temporary interruption of the RXTE observing schedule. The Swift Caldb has been updated for the UVOT (update version 20090831) and the SC (update version 20090831)... The CALDB for the HXD has been updated (update versions 20090902) ... CFITSIO Version 3.2 beta released on Sep 4 2009 ... Stage 1 (science) proposals are due on Friday, November 20th, 2009. PCA breakdown history and SAA history file updated for the PCA (update 01 September 2009)... Released August 19 2009; various improvements... Initial release, corresponds to V10 of the GBM leaf file database (released 20090512) ... XSPEC 12.5.1d updated Aug 27; plot options emodel and eemodel syntax fix ... XSPEC 12.5.1c updated Aug 25; nchan option for the tclout command, save command permission fix, solar abundance set of Asplund, Grevesse, and Sauval (2006) ... XMM-Newton observing proposals are solicited in response to the Ninth Announcement of Opportunity. The Fermi project announces the release of the LAT photon data and associated spacecraft files. Data can be downloaded from the LAT Data Server link from the Fermi Science Support Center home page. XSPEC 12.5.1 updated Aug 19; many improvements... Released August 19 2009; primarily driven by the release of the Swift software version 3.4, PCARMF version 11.7... PCA energy to channel file has been updated (update 17 Aug 2009)... The CALDB for the HXD and XIS have been updated (update versions 20090813) ... New PCA response matrix software and calibration files provide significant improvements to spectral analysis over the entire RXTE mission. This Sloan catalog (from Wen et al. 2009, ApJS, 183, 197) is now available in Browse. update of SAE (v9r15p2) in anticipation of the release of the LAT event data; updated 09 Aug 2009 ... PCA breakdown history and SAA history file updated for the PCA (update 04 August 2009)... Details for proposers are included in the above link. This Chandra catalog (from Feigelson et al. 2009, AJ, 138, 227) is now available in Browse. This star catalog (from van Leeuwen 2007, A+A, 474, 653) is now available in Browse. This Chandra catalog (from Wang et al. 2009, ApJ, 696, 47) is now available in Browse. XSPEC 12.5.0an updated July 27; fix to kerrdisk and kerrconv crash under 64-bit Linux... This XMM-Newton catalog (from Young et al. 2009, ApJS, 183, 17) is now available in Browse. The CALDB for the HXD and XIS have been updated (update versions 20090713) ... Updated July 16 2009; bug fixes, more ... The latest version of this XMM-Newton Project catalog (and also of the Clean Source Catalog) are now available in Browse. The Swift Caldb has been updated for the UVOT (update version 20090630) and the SC (update version 20090708)... This Chandra catalog (from Posson-Brown et al. 2009, ApJ, 695, 1094) is now available in Browse. About an eigth of the CCD area, near the edge, has been damaged. PCA breakdown history and SAA history file updated for the PCA (update 01 July 2009)... XSPEC 12.5.0am updated June 22; provides a new option for parameter display... Selections for the Cycle-2 Guest Investigator Program were announced by NASA HQ on June 18, 2009. How and when to propose for RXTE Cycle 14. Released June 3 2009; Swift software patch (version 3.3) ... PCA breakdown history and SAA history file updated for the PCA (update 04 June 2009)... Energy scale calibration for XIS data with a window option has been updated. The Swift Caldb has been updated for the UVOT (update version 20090529) and the SC (update version 20090529)... The workshop "The Extreme sky: Sampling the Universe above 10 keV", celebrating 7 years of INTEGRAL, will be held on 13-17 October 2009 at Castello Aragonese, Otranto (Lecce), Italy. XSPEC 12.5.0aj updated May 22; fix for model parsing, other improvements... ESA has released the 7th Announcement of Opportunity for data rights to targets within AO-7 observations. The deadline for proposals is July 3, 2009. Additional information can be found on the ESA INTEGRAL website and on the "Proposals and Tools" page of the INTEGRAL US GOF. The CALDB for the HXD (update 20090511) has been updated ... The Swift Caldb has been updated for the XRT (update version 20090515) and the SC (update version 20090430)... RXTE will have another proposal round this year. CFITSIO Version 3.181 beta released, release of a thread-safe version of CFITSIO (on Unix machines), more ... XSPEC 12.5.0ag, fix for conflict between setplot wave (with WAVE_PLOT_UNITS is set to angstrom) and plot efficiency and plot icounts command... XSPEC 12.5.0af, zredden multiplicative model component called the same function as redden, and therefore its redshift parameter had no effect... The OGIP Spectral File Format document (OGIP/92-007) has been updated by K. Arnaud, May 6 2007 ... NASA announces the INTEGRAL AO-7 US Guest Observer Program. Details of this program can be found on the "Proposals and Tools" webpage of the INTEGRAL GOF. PCA breakdown history and SAA history file updated for the PCA (update 01 May 2009)... The INTEGRAL AO-7 General Program, as recommended by the Time Allocation Committee (TAC) and approved on the 15th of April by the ESA Director of Science and Robotic Exploration (Prof. David Southwood), has been released. This Chandra catalog (from Brassington et al. 2009, ApJS, 181, 605) is now available in Browse. NASA's Swift satellite and an international team of astronomers have found a gamma-ray burst (dubbed GRB 090423) from a star that died when the universe was only 630 million years old, or less than five percent of its present age... An international team of astronomers has used the world's biggest radio telescope to look deep into the brightest galaxies that NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope can see... This XMM-Newton catalog (from Cappelluti et al. 2009, A+A, 497, 635) is now available in Browse. The 2009 Fermi Symposium (November 2-5 in Washington, DC) is dedicated to results and prospects for scientific exploration of the Universe with the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope and related studies... This ROSAT catalog (from Agueros et al. 2009, ApJS, 181, 444) is now available in Browse. This catalog (from Treister et al. 2009, ApJ, 693, 1713) is now available in Browse. The 2009 Fermi Symposium is dedicated to results and prospects for scientific exploration of the Universe with the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope and related studies. The symposium will be held shortly after the Fermi data release, offering an opportunity for the astrophysical community to share in the excitement of discoveries being made with the Fermi instruments. Topics will include: blazars and other active galactic nuclei, pulsars, gamma-ray bursts, supernova remnants, diffuse gamma radiation, unidentified gamma-ray sources, and searches for dark matter. The meeting will be held November 2-5, 2009 in downtown Washington, D.C. This Chandra catalog (from Virani et al. 2006, AJ, 131, 2373) is now available in Browse. Updated 15-Apr-2009; SAMP support, VOTABLE catalog support, X11 MacOSX 10.5 fix... XSPEC 12.5.0ad, ae, nthcomp swind1 model fixes... To mark the International Year of Astronomy ESA launched a competition for students to use INTEGRAL data for investigating objects in the Galactic bulge. PCA breakdown history and SAA history file updated for the PCA (update 12 Apr 2009)... The gamma-ray sky comes alive in a movie made from data acquired by NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope during its first three months of operations. This catalog of quasars (from Gibson et al. 2009, ApJ, 692, 758) is now available in Browse. This WMAP source catalog (from Wright et al. 2009, ApJS, 180, 283) is now available in Browse, replacing the 3-Year version. Released Apr 6 2009; primarily driven by the release of the Suzaku (version 12) and Swift (version 3.2) software, but also includes some other bug-fix updates to other packages to mirror the current development versions in use at the HEASARC... XSPEC 12.5.0ac, Fixes to a couple of obscure cases of gain parameter usage... The Swift Caldb has been updated for the XRT data (update version 20090407)... This Chandra source catalog (from Green et al. 2009, ApJ, 690, 644) is now available in Browse. Suzaku software (v 12.0) and HXD/XIS Calibration updates This XMM-Newton catalog (from Barnard et al. 2008, MNRAS, 388, 849) is now available in Browse. The CALDB for the Suzaku XIS (update 20090402) and HXD (20090402) has been updated ... The Swift Caldb has been updated for the spacecraft (sc) data (update version 20090331)... XSPEC 12.5.0ab, nsmax modelfunction fix... XSPEC 12.5.0y,z,aa, kerrconv, diskir fix, compile problem fix... This Chandra catalog (from Currie et al. 2009, AJ, 137, 3210) is now available in Browse. This Chandra catalog of 9017 X-ray sources (from Muno et al. 2009, ApJS, 181, 110) is now available in Browse. The Fermi Cycle-2 proposal deadline has passed. A total of 207 proposals were received in response to the Cycle-2 NRA... The Fermi spacecraft and LAT both experienced processor resets, and data taking stopped around 2009-03-11 03:41 UT. The spacecraft and both instruments have subsequently been completely restored... PCA breakdown history and SAA history file updated for the PCA (update 13 Mar 2009)... This XMM-Newton catalog (from Bianchi et al. 2009, A+A, 495, 421) is now available in Browse. The long-term schedule for the first 3 months of Suzaku Cycle 4 is now available. These proposals are due before Tuesday March 17th at 6:00 pm EDT. Preliminary statistics on the proposals that have been received in answer to INTEGRAL's 7th Announcement of Opportunity are available. The Swift Caldb has been updated for the sc (update version 20090228) and UVOTA (update version 20092228)... XSPEC 12.5.0w,x, new tclout option, vequil fix... This Compton catalog (from Casandjian and Greiner 2008, A+A, 489, 849) is now available in Browse. On 19 February, following exit from a perigee passage, another SPI Ge detector was lost. The list of accepted Suzaku Cycle 4 targets is now available. The proposals recommended by the Swift Cycle 5 Peer Review Panel are now available. This Chandra catalog (from Humphrey and Buote, 2008, ApJ, 689, 983) is now available in Browse. This catalog of 1 million quasar candidates (from Richards et al. 2009, ApJS, 180, 67) is now available in Browse. XSPEC 12.5.0t,u,v released February 19; adds an option for choosing Y-axis units when plotting in setplot wave model; valgrind message clean up; mdefine command fix ... This star catalog (from Maiz-Apellaniz et al. 2004, ApJS, 151, 103) is now available in Browse. The LAT Bright Source List is now available as a Browse table. XSPEC 12.5.0s released February 13; fix for combined loading of absori and pexriv models ... XSPEC 12.5.0r released February 12; fix needed for all etable model calculations... The Swift and Suzaku Caldb data have been updated... This X-ray point source catalog (from Laird et al. 2009, ApJS, 180, 102) is now available in Browse. This list, the primary purpose of which is to assist proposers for the second Guest Investigator Cycle, is now available. This XMM-Newton source catalog (from Servillat et al. 2008, A+A, 480, 397) is now available in Browse. First release, enables simulations for cycle 2 proposals ... This Chandra source catalog (from Getman et al. 2007, ApJ, 654, 316) is now available in Browse. This Chandra source catalog (from Servillat et al. 2008, A+A, 490, 641) is now available in Browse. XSPEC 12.5.0q released February 03, tclout gain option added... CFITSIO Version 3.13 released, containing substantial enhancements over the previous version, more ... PCA breakdown history and SAA history file updated for the PCA (update 02 Feb 2009)... XSPEC 12.5.0p released January 30, relaxes the OGIP requirement that spectral data files must contain a RESPFILE keyword... (Updated Jan 21 2009). Update for Chandra Cycle 11... This Chandra source catalog (from Table 13 of Trouille et al. 2008, ApJS, 179, 1) is now available in Browse. This Chandra source catalog (from Table 12 of Trouille et al. 2008, ApJS, 179, 1) is now available in Browse. INTEGRAL has observed as a public TOO the Anomalous X-ray Pulsar 1E1547.0-5408, which has recently shown intense bursting activity. Updated 22-Jan-2009; region improvements, Mac OS X fixes, more... XSPEC 12.5.0o released January 21,improvement to delcomp command... A one second timing error was recently fixed in archival data from 01-12 January 2006, inclusive. XSPEC 12.5.0n released January 15, bug fix for a C-to-Fortran boolean conversion error... This Chandra source catalog (from Covey et al. 2008, ApJS, 178, 339) is now available in Browse. This Chandra source catalog (from Luo et al. 2008, ApJS, 179, 19) is now available in Browse. XSPEC 12.5.0l,m released January 14... PCA breakdown history and SAA history file updated for the PCA (update 14 Jan 2009)... ESA has released the 7th Announcement of Opportunity for observing proposals with INTEGRAL. The deadline for proposals is February 20, 2009. Additional information can be found on the ESA INTEGRAL website and on the "Proposals and Tools" page of the INTEGRAL US GOF. The Swift Caldb has been updated for the sc (update version 20090109... The CALDB for the Suzaku XIS (update 20090109) and HXD (20090109) has been updated ... Released Jan 5 2009; release of the Swift (version 3.0) software, includes updates to other packages... Registration for this meeting (to be held in Cambridge, Mass on Jan 28-29) closes on January 14. New Year's Eve XSPEC 12.5.0k release; improvements to dummyrsp command ... Registration for this meeting (to be held in Rome from April 27-30) is now open. XSPEC 12.5.0j released Dec 24 2008; improvements to parameter linking ... The Swift Caldb has been updated for the xrt (20081215) and sc (20081217)... This is an invitation to U.S. scientists to serve as members of the ASTRO-H Mission (formerly known as NeXT) SWG. Researchers described the first data collected from NASA's new orbiting observatory, the Fermi Gamma Ray Telescope, during the recent Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics. "The Energetic Cosmos : from Suzaku to ASTRO-H" will take place 29 June - 2 July, 2009 in Otaru, Japan. The abstracts and targets for accepted AO-8 proposals are now available XSPEC 12.5.0g,h,i released Dec 15 2008; Fix to the swind1 function, plotting improvements, energies extend option fix ... Remove high-voltage breakdowns which contaminate RXTE PCA data. This Chandra source catalog (from Feruglio et al. 2008, A+A, 488, 417) is now available in Browse. This Chandra source catalog (from Trouille et al. 2008, ApJS, 179, 1) is now available in Browse. This Chandra source catalog (also from Trouille et al. 2008, ApJS, 179, 1) is now available in Browse. Suzaku Cycle 4 (Stage 1) is now closed. NASA has received 99 proposals for an oversubscription factor of 4.1 XSPEC 12.5.0e,f, released Dec 05 2008; FNINIT function, Levenberg-Marquardt fitting improvements ... XSPEC 12.5.0b,c,d , released Dec 03 2008; addcomp, delcomp, or editmod changes, CHANTYPE warning, additional C/Fortran function wrappers ... The Swift Caldb has been updated for the bat (update version 20081026), xrt (20081010), uvota (20081028), and sc (20081125)... The CALDB for the Suzaku XIS (update 20081110) and HXD (20081203) has been updated ... PCA breakdown history and SAA history file updated for the PCA (update 02 Dec 2008)... XSPEC 12.5.0a, released Dec 01 2008; Bug fix to the kerrbb model... BACKSCAL keyword for "Entire Field of View" (diffuse source) versions corrected Released Nov 25 2008; last distribution of HEAsoft in which we intend to include xspec v11; many other changes... XSPEC 12.5.0, released Nov 25 2008; adds recornrm, mdefine, many other changes... This meeting will be held in Rome next May 13-15. This VLA radio source catalog (Kellermann et al. 2008, ApJS, 179, 71) is now available in Browse. It has been decided to extend the duration of the ongoing AO-6 cycle by two months, until 16 October 2009. The duration of AO-7 will be extended by 2.5 months, it will therefore last from October 2009 until end of December 2010. Subsequent AO's are expected to be annual again. This XMM-Newton source catalog (Giardino et al. 2008, A+A, 490, 113) is now available in Browse. This Chandra source catalog (also Giardino et al. 2008, A+A, 490, 113) is now available in Browse. Updated Suzaku Technical Description for Cycle 4 proposers is now available The long-term schedule for the last 5 months of AO-3 period is available This XMM-Newton source catalog (Ueda et al. 2008, ApJS, 179, 124) is now available in Browse. (Updated Nov 4 2008). Correctly treats the statistical errors in the Suzaku HXD background, more... Updated 30-Oct-2008; Mask now support transparency , more... This Chandra source catalog (Koenig et al. 2008, ApJ, 685, 463) is now available in Browse. 12.4.0ar (adds automatic normalization to the covariance calculation performed at the end of a Levenberg-Marquardt fit) released on 29 Oct 2008... This XMM-Newton OM UV source catalog is now available in Browse. 12.4.0aq (tclout model improvements) released on 23 Oct 2008... 12.4.0ao (bug fix for the margin command) and 12.4.0ap (Levenberg-Marquardt fit improvements) released on 21 Oct 2008... The latest (Sep 2008) version of this catalog (Barbon et al. 1999, A+A Supp, 139, 531) is now available in Browse. (Updated Oct 21 2008). Updates of the effective area curves for Suzaku suitable for Cycle 4 proposers, more... PCA breakdown history and SAA history file updated for the PCA (update 20 Oct 2008)... XIS and HXD CALDBs updated. Update versions 20081009... INTEGRAL is celebrating six successful years in space today! Instruments and spacecraft are continuing to perform well and the scientific output keeps the community busy as recent workshops in Copenhagen and Rome demonstrate. We are all looking forward to more years of discoveries and interesting results. Observations of two different systems -- both containing stellar-mass black holes -- are showing astronomers how much they have yet to learn. Coordinated observations of these systems using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope and NASA's Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer reveal surprising dips in optical brightness moments before high-energy flares erupt. Updated 14-Oct-2008; Region improvements, Mac OS X 10.5 firewall fix, more... Applications to this conference on `30 Years of Magnetars: New Frontiers' are due October 15th or shortly thereafter PCA breakdown history and SAA history file updated for the PCA (update 09 Oct 2008)... INTEGRAL is observing as a public TOO the black hole X-ray transient system H 1743-322, which recently entered an outburst. All the data are publicly available. For the observation schedule and instructions on how to download the data see web page linked above. These proposals are due on Friday October 10 at 8:00am EDT. This catalog (Mickaelian 2008, AJ, 136, 946) is now available in Browse. This program, sponsored by NASA, awards fellowships to recent Ph.D.'s in astronomy, physics, and related disciplines, for research that is broadly related to the mission of the NASA Physics of the Cosmos program, including high-energy, cosmological and gravitational astrophysics. October 1st, 2008 is the 50th anniversary of the start of operations of NASA. spacecraft clock correction file updated in General SpaceCraft (SC) data (update 29 September 2008)... A short film by Brady Haran for the East Midlands STEM Partnership. This Chandra catalog (Romano et al. 2008, A+A, 488, 1221) is now available in Browse. Released 18-Sep-2008; solely consists of an update to the Suzaku software (version 10)... Suzaku software (v 10.0) and HXD/XIS Calibration updates The Fermi GBM burst catalog, burst data products and daily data products are now available. (Updated Sep 15 2008). Effective area curves for XMM-Newton EPIC/MOS and Swift XRT have been updated. For the MOS, a new warning regarding the loss of efficiency in MOS1 timing mode data has been included. JHU hosted a one-day symposium for local astronomers to celebrate the three years of science with Suzaku The Fermi project has released the Fermi LAT Monitored Source List. This list provides daily and weekly fluxes for sources which are being monitored by the LAT, along with bright transients. Suzaku Cycle 4 regular and Key Project proposals are due on Dec 5, 2008 XIS Caldb updated. Update versions 20080905... 12.4.0an released on 03 Sep 2008; fix for energies command ... ABC guide to XMM-Newton data analysis for SAS v8.0 ISOC is preparing the release of the Announcement of Opportunity for AO-7. Key milestones are shown on the web page linked above. 12.4.0ak,al,am released on 28 Aug 2008; fix for cutoffpl model, xsFortran.cxx subroutine, support for Fermi/GLAST GBM data ... The GLAST mission has been renamed the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope in honor of Enrico Fermi, one of the leading physicists of the 20th century. The Viewing tool has been updated to support XMM-Newton AO-8. spacecraft clock correction file updated in General SpaceCraft (SC) data (update 25 August 2008)... HXD updated. Update versions 20080811... This XMM-Newton source catalog (Watson et al. 2008) is now available in Browse. CFITSIO Version 3.10 released, containing substantial enhancements over the previous version, fixes some potential buffer overflows, more ... New location for RXTE realtime and pseudo-production data retrieval. The report of this panel, who reviewed the HEASARC and other astrophysics archives, is now available. Details for proposers. This radio source catalog (Massardi et al. 2008, MNRAS, 384, 775) is now available in Browse. 12.4.0aj released on 31 Jul 2008; fix for energies command ... updated browse_extract_wget.pl - fixed syntax error causing the fields parameter in the created query to be ignored ... spacecraft clock correction file updated in General SpaceCraft (SC) data (update 30 July 2008)... Updated July 28 2008; bug fixes, more ... July 29th, 2008 is the 50th anniversary of the establishment of NASA. This Chandra catalog (Wang et al. 2008, ApJ, 675, 464) is now available in Browse. IXO study supercedes Constellation-X and XEUS activities. 12.4.0ai released on 24 July 2008; fix for save model command ... 12.4.0ah released on 23 July 2008; fix for flux command when used with the err option ... At its meeting at ESAC on June 11 and 12, 2008, the INTEGRAL User Group recommended a new scheme for the distribution of the Open Time that means significant changes for the organization of AO-7 and future AOs. The long-term schedule for the middle 5 months of AO-3 period is available Update 16 July 2008: added a new leap second into leapsec_150708.fits file. 12.4.0ag released on 14 Jul 2008; fixes for kerrd and nsa additive models ... HXD, XIS, and XRT CALDB have been updated. Update versions 20080709 for all 3 instruments... The approved Guest Observer proposals, and Archive and Theory proposals, are now available. 12.4.0ae and af patches released on 8 Jul 2008; af improves xsect and cosmo commands more ... This catalog (Trump et al. 2006) is now available in Browse. Released 2-Jul-2008; bug fixes, new option out_file to skymap, more ... Released 30-Jun-2008; primarily driven by the release of the Swift (version 2.9) software, but also includes to several libraries and packages which have been revised to mirror the current development versions in use at the HEASARC, more... Dr. Alan Smale has been appointed Director of the HEASARC. This catalog (Puccetti et al. 2006) is now available in Browse. These two NASA data archives are now a single organization that will use the name HEASARC. XRT (update 09 May 2008) and general SpaceCraft (SC) data (update 17 June 2008)... A new HEASARC service lets you know when new data are available in the archive for any source in which you might be interested. NASA announces the INTEGRAL AO-6 US Guest Observer Program. Details of this program can be found on our "Proposals and Tools" webpage. The INTEGRAL AO-6 General Programme, as recommended by the Time Allocation Committee (TAC) and approved on the 3rd of June by the ESA Director of Science and Robotic Exploration (Prof. David Southwood) has been released. 12.4.0ac and ad patches released on 17 Jun 2008; ac fixes a conflict with dummyrsp and plot, and ad lowers the maximum temperature for the vapec and bvapec models, more ... Update 16 June 2008: XIS, XRT CALDB index files (caldb.indx) have been updated. This corrects an error in the previous release (20080602) of the XRT and XIS CALDB. Response matrices made with the previous (20080602) caldb are in error at energies less than 2 keV... Error in June 2 release of CALDB, and new & improved PIN non X-ray background files This catalog (Wolk et al. 2008) is now available in Browse 12.4.0ab patch released on 10 Jun 2008; adds the goodness option to the tclout command, more ... Best wishes for a long and successful mission! The updated version of the Slew Catalog is now available in Browse. INTEGRAL participated in the 2008 NASA Senior Review. In their report, the Senior Review Committee recognized the unique capabilities of INTEGRAL in the hard X-ray and soft gamma-ray regime as well as its important synergy with the upcoming GLAST mission. As a result, the committee recommended continuing NASA funding for INTEGRAL through FY10. This Chandra catalog (McGowan et al. 2008, MNRAS, 383, 330) is now available in Browse. xTime has been enhanced to accept and display times with up to millisecond accuracy and to optionally incoporate mission-specific time corrections. Update 02 June 2008: XIS, XRT and HXD calibration data have been updated... This XMM-Newton catalog (Brunner et al. 2008, A+Ap, 479, 283) is now available in Browse. The 7th INTEGRAL Workshop has been announced. It will be held 8-11 September 2008 in Copenhagen, Denmark. The Viewing tool has been enhanced with support for Swift's orbital pole constraints. The application deadline for attending the summer school is May 9. This catalog (Clark et al. 2008) is now available in Browse. 12.4.0aa patch released on 01 May 2008; fakeit command bug fix, more ... UVOTA (updated 28 Apr 2008) and general SpaceCraft (SC) data updated... (Updated Apr 14 2008) includes revised effective area curves for future missions Constellation-X and XEUS, as well as updated curves for Swift UVOT (except grisms) and for INTEGRAL ISGRI and JEM-X ... ABC guide to XMM-Newton data analysis for SAS>7.1 XMM 2008 NASA Senior Review science section The updated 2008 version is now available in Browse. new version of the object oriented interface to the cfitsio library, more ... 12.4.0y patch released on 23 Apr 2008; bug fixes relating to the case where a fit parameter is pegged in a Lev-Marq fit, more ... The CGRaBS Catalog is now available in Browse. 12.4.0x patches released on 21 Apr 2008; updated for HEASOFT 6.4.1 Released 21-Apr-2008; release of the Suzaku (version 8) software, but also includes Suzaku-related updates to xselect/extractor, bugfixes, more... Updated 15-Apr-2008; Windows native printing, gui enhancements, more... HESSCAT is now available in Browse. Update 01 Apr 2008: XIS and HXD calibration data have been updated, no foolin'... 12.4.0u,v,w patches released; model, weight command updated Swift SC and BAT CALDB updated, more... The long-term schedule for the first 4 months of AO-3 period is available 12.4.0s,t patches released; plot efficiency, data commands updated Optical Monitor data and a source catalog are available 12.4.0q,r patches released 12.4.0n,o,p patches released; Levenberg-Marquardt fitting, xmmpsf and suzpsf mixing components, other fixes 12.4.0m patch released; The start-up statistic, method, and weight settings in the user's Xspec.init file were effectively ignored. The list of accepted AO-3 targets is available 12.4.0l patch released; Problem with error command. Download through the SOC or the GSFC Mirror 12.4.0j and 12.4.0k patches released; When loading its model initialization file, XSPEC is not properly parsing model parameters with multi-word unit labels, such as the xi parameter of the pexriv model(12.4.0j). Unfolded spectrum plots (plot ufspec, eufspec, eeufspec) cannot be performed on energy bins with widths smaller than 10^-4 keV. (12.4.0k). Spacecraft (SC) calibration data updated for Swift. 12.4.0h and 12.4.0i patches released; The Y-axis label for plot chisq should include sign(data-model) rather than |data-model| (12.4.0h). Table model calculations ignore theredshift parameter z if it is set to a negative value (12.4.0i). Latest Mission News and Object of Interest - How Many Supernovae Are There in the Milky Way? updated ignore and notice commands in certain contexts, increased response matrix convolution capability.... plot ufspec does not plot spectral data points whose corresponding folded model values are negative.... Spacecraft (SC) calibration data updated for Swift. XIS and HXD calibration data have been updated... DOS-mode scripts (with their extra carriage-return characters) are not properly handled for multi-line commands, more ... ESA has released the Key Programs selected to be observed during the upcoming AO-6 observing cycle. They include observations of the Galactic Center region, the Cygnus region, the Virgo Cluster, the North Ecliptic Pole, and the SMC. bkn model abbreviation fixed ... bug fixes ... new set of effective area curves for Chandra Cycle 10 ... RGS offset values update... Improved Mac OSX 10.5 support, more... Markov Chain Monte Carlo updated, more... XRT calibration data for Swift and HXD calibration data for Suzaku updated. Spacecraft (SC) calibration data updated for Swift. XIS calibration data have been updated... The gabs model is wrong and gives results dependent on the energy bin size. Our thanks to Takao Kitaguchi for pointing this out. Report added on Nov 26, 2007 ... UVOTA calibration data updated for Swift. HXD and XIS on Suzaku, and XRT, UVOTA and SC updated on Swift. When a fakeit run is using a response with first legal channel number (TLMIN4) = 0, and is NOT based on an already existing spectrum, the last channel is erroneously ignored and always ends up with 0 counts. Our thanks to David Morris for pointing this out. Report added on Oct 31, 2007. Infrequent but significant errors can occur in ASM source intensities. XIS and HXD data updated 16-Oct-2007 Updated 15-Oct-2007; tclout plink option change, more... Updated 24-Sep-2007; patch release primarily for the Swift (version 2.7.2) software, but also includes an update to the XTE task 'pcabackest', more... Updated 20-Aug-2007; some output formatting improvements, more... Listed by RA. The nH tool has been updated with support for additional coordinate systems. Viewing tool updated to support Swift Cycle 4. The AKBAR system has been renamed ARK: the Astrophysics Research Knowledgebase Added a progress box on the tabbed results display page to show how many tables have been processed. When processing is complete the table and row totals are displayed. Viewing tool updated to support XMM-Newton AO-7. |
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