HEAsoft v5.2 Released
We are pleased to announce the release of HEAsoft v5.2
1. How to obtain HEAsoft v5.2
HEAsoft v5.2 has been released, and can be obtained from:
http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/software/lheasoft/
This is where the most up to date HEAsoft information is available, including notices of the releases, HTML documentation, and the continually updated FAQ. Users should always check here first for answers to questions.
Any problems installing FTOOLS should be reported via the Feedback form (select "FTOOLS" from the menu). There is also a XANADU option for Questions on the installation and usage of XANADU software package.
Any problems using FTOOLS for ASCA data analysis should be reported via the Feedback form (select "FTOOLS" or "ASCA" from the menu).
2. New/updated tools related to ASCA data analysis
Updated in HEAsoft v5.2
- Uninitialized variable problems in ascalin and others
- We have identified and fixed many "uninitialized variable"
problems which manifested itself only on Linux machines (in particular,
the HEAsoft v5.1 version of ascalin on Linux often hang or
incorrectly claimed that event times were out of range of the gain history
file). We have also discovered and fixed uninitialized variables in
faint, sispi, mkgisbgd,
and mkdtime, although these rarely affected the results.
- ascaeffmap
- Fixed a bug in calculation of the SIS efficiency from the RMF.
- ascaray
- Changed default "goldens" parameter to 18.5 g/cc, reflecting
our current calibration (previously, the default value was 19.3, the bulk
density). The use of the higher density value would have resulted
in an overestimate of the high energy effective area.
- fmosaic
- Fixed a bug so it will run on Solaris.
Further information on changes can be found in the general HEAsoft 5.2 release notes.
This file was last modified on Thursday, 27-Jun-2002 18:29:49 EDT
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