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                        RELEASE NOTES FOR HEASOFT 6.26.1
                                  June 26, 2019
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HEASoft 6.26.1 is a patch-level release that includes updates to NICER
and Swift data analysis software only. (Though it also includes a patch
to rbnrmf applied previously to the 6.26 downloads.)

Please see the download page for information
about patching existing HEASOFT 6.26 installations.

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                                     NICER
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NICERDAS Version 6a:

- nicerl2: (v1.9) Split nicermergeclean around niprefilter2 call to resolve
  "chicken-and-egg" dependency problem; improved handling of conflicts
  between e.g. file and file.gz

- nicermergeclean: (v1.6) Added 'nomerge' option to skip merging of ufa files
  into mpu7 file

- nimpucal: (v1.8) Erase conflicting evt.gz output if clobber=YES

- niprefilter2: (v1.9) Hidden parameters ufpat, ufapat, hkpat, mkfpat now
  use explicit path and can use shortcut

- Improved Perl error handling in most tasks

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                                     SWIFT
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XRT:

- xrtwtcorr: (v0.2.5) Modified 'ftsort' call to fix errors when running
  xrtcalcpi on WT mode data in settling mode
    HEASoft / FTOOLS Help Desk

    If FTOOLS has been useful in your research, please reference this site (https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/ftools) and use the ASCL reference for HEASoft [ascl:1408.004] or the ASCL reference for the original FTOOLs paper [ascl:9912.002]:

    Blackburn, J. K. 1995, in ASP Conf. Ser., Vol. 77, Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems IV, ed. R. A. Shaw, H. E. Payne, and J. J. E. Hayes (San Francisco: ASP), 367.

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    HEASARC Staff Scientist Position - Applications are now being accepted for a Staff Scientist with significant experience and interest in the technical aspects of astrophysics research, to work in the High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center (HEASARC) at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) in Greenbelt, MD. Refer to the AAS Job register for full details.