Old HEASARC News

2007

A new version (6.4) of the HEASOFT software suite has been released. (7 Dec 2007)

The nH Tool has been updated with support for additional coordinate systems. (2 Nov 2007)

The HEASARC Users' Group meeting minutes and presentations are available. (2 Nov 2007)

Show Browse observations and objects in Google Sky and other KML-aware services. (30 Oct 2007)

The Viewing Tool has been updated for Swift Cycle 4. (24 Oct 2007)

The RPS database AKBAR has been renamed to ARK: The Astrophysics Research Knowledgebase. (16 Oct 2007)

A new version (6.3.2) of the HEASOFT software suite has been released. (21 Sep 2007)

The Viewing Tool has been updated to support XMM-Newton AO7. (6 Sep 2007)

A new version (6.3.1) of the HEASOFT software suite has been released. (27 Jul 2007)

A new version (6.3) of the HEASOFT software suite has been released. (5 Jul 2007)

Just released: new versions of the nH and X-Ray Background tools. (5 Jul 2007)

The Suzaku public data archive is now open (1 Jun 2007)

The HEASOFT 6.2 software suite has been released. Primarily driven by the release of the Suzaku (version 4) software (9 Mar 2007)

SkyView-in-a-Jar v2.1 released. (5 Mar 2007)

Suzaku Special Issue of PASJ is available. (29 Jan 2007)

Neil Gehrels and the Swift Team win this year's AAS Rossi Prize "for gamma-ray burst discoveries with the Swift mission" (9 Jan 2007)

2006

HEASOFT 6.1.2 was released. This release is primarily driven by the release of the Swift (version 2.6) and Suzaku (version 3) software. (7 Dec 2006)

A new version of Webspec has been released which uses XSPEC 12 and supports Suzaku instruments. (31 Oct 2006)

Browse version 8.1 released, featuring the new Chandra Field of View Search. (30 Oct 2006)

The Viewing Tool was updated. It now supports XMM-Newton AO-6. (29 Aug 2006)

New version of xTime adds support for Suzaku and GLAST. (23 Aug 2006)

HEASOFT 6.1 released. (24 Jul 2006)

Swift and RXTE data help solve mystery of explosive star - CNN article (20 Jul 2006)

Suzaku started version 1 processing and distribution of guest observer data. (27 Jun 2006)

Browse version 8.0 released. (26 Jun 2006)

Browse version 7.5.2 released. (23 May 2006)

HEASOFT 6.0.6 released. Release Notes. (17 May 2006)

The Viewing Tool was updated to deal with Moon constraints for Swift. (1 May 2006)

HEASOFT 6.0.5 released. Release Notes. (26 Apr 2006)

fv Version 4.3 (standalone) released. (20 Mar 2006)

Imagine News: Ringside Seat to the Universe's First Split Second (20 Mar 2006)

Imagine News: New Map of Milky Way Reveals Millions of Unseen Objects (13 Mar 2006)

Browse 7.5.1 released. (25 Jan 2006)

Imagine News: NASA's Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer Marks 10 Years in Space (9 Jan 2006)

2005

Imagine News: Is A Supernova By Any Other Name Still As Sweet? (21 Dec 2005)

Browse 7.5 is released. (19 Dec 2005)

The Timeline Tool has been updated to include HETE-2 information, in addition to Swift and RXTE. (28 Nov 2005)

HEASOFT 6.0.4 released. (28 Nov 2005)

Imagine News: Three Satellites Discover One Elusive Star (15 Nov 2005)

Browse version 7.4 released. (1 Nov 2005)

Imagine News: In a Flash NASA Helps Solve 35-year-old Cosmic Mystery (7 Oct 2005)

Imagine News: Most Distant Explosion Detected, Smashes Previous Record (30 Sep 2005)

Argus has been re-implemented as a specialized front-end to Browse. (8 Sep 2005)

Imagine News: NASA'S Swift Satellite Provides New Insight into Black Hole Formation (22 Aug 2005)

Newly redesigned xTime is much easier to use and completely replaces the old Date Converter Tool. (2 Aug 2005)

Imagine the Universe News: Orbiting Stars Flooding Space With Exotic Gravitational Waves (27 Jul 2005)

Imagine the Universe News: Japan Launches World-Class Space Observatory with NASA Instruments (11 Jul 2005)

Astro-E2 launches sucessfully and is renamed Suzaku. (10 Jul 2005)

Browse 7.3 Released (8 Jul 2005)

Imagine the Universe News: NASA Scientists Catch Unique Gamma-Ray Burst (24 May 2005)

Imagine the Universe News: Newly Seen Force In Star Formation May Help Gravity (26 Apr 2005)

The Swift archive is now operational (12 Apr 2005)

HEASOFT 6.0 released (12 Apr 2005)

Newly released / just added: Timeline tool for Swift & RXTE and HEXTErock tool for RXTE. (7 Apr 2005)

Imagine the Universe News: New Black Hole Census Reveals Major Undercount and Great Extinction (17 Mar 2005)

Browse version 7.2 released. (8 Mar 2005)

Imagine the Universe News: Cosmic Explosion Among the Brightest in Recorded History (25 Feb 2005)

Imagine the Universe News: A Race Around a Black Hole (20 Jan 2005)

2004

Browse 7.1 released (version history). (29 Dec 2004)

Imagine the Universe News: Scientific Balloon Circles South Pole on Search for Antimatter (29 Dec 2004)

Approved GO programs for Astro-E2 Cycle 1, XMM-Newton Cycle 4, and RXTE Cycle 10 are now available online. (16 Dec 2004)

A FITS file verifier available. (8 Dec 2004)

Imagine the Universe News: NASA Successfully Launches Swift Satellite (22 Nov 2004)

The Swift is launched (20 Nov 2004)

The Astro-E2 launch delayed until spring/summer 2005 (18 Nov 2004)

Imagine the Universe News: Massive Merger Of Galaxies Is The Most Powerful On Record (29 Sep 2004)

Imagine the Universe News: Scientists Gain Glimpse of Bizarre Matter in a Neutron Star (21 Sep 2004)

A beta release of XSPEC12 available for download. (15 Sep 2004)

INTEGRAL Public Data Results are available. Results from SPI and IBIS are given per observation and revolution. (1 Sep 2004)

HEASARC mirror of the INTEGRAL archive at the ISDC opens. (31 Aug 2004)

INTEGRAL Bright Source Catalog available. (31 Aug 2004)

Imagine the Universe News: Scientists Spot Doughnut-Shaped Cloud With a Black Hole Filling (20 Jul 2004)

INTEGRAL Public Data Archive at the ISDC opens. (19 Jul 2004)

2004 Senior Review report now available (PDF file). (28 Jun 2004)

Imagine the Universe News: Smoking Gun Found for Gamma-Ray Burst in Milky Way (17 Jun 2004)

Imagine the Universe News: Chandra Opens New Line of Investigation on Dark Energy. (26 May 2004)

HEASOFT 5.3.1 released. (20 May 2004)

Astro-E2 Guest Observer Program Cycle 1 Information Released. (18 May 2004)

Imagine the Universe News: Dark Matter May Be Black Hole Pinpoints. (14 May 2004)

Imagine the Universe News: World's Most Precise Gyroscopes Ready To Test Einstein Theory. (28 Apr 2004)

New HEASARC site design: we have joined the "One-NASA" look. (1 Apr 2004)

Imagine News: ESA's Integral Solves Thirty-Year Old Gamma-Ray Mystery. (26 Mar 2004)

8th Edition of Imagine CD-ROM available. (3 Mar 2004)

Imagine News: Giant Black Hole Rips Apart Unlucky Star In Cosmic Reality Show. (23 Feb 2004)

New Browse version 7 released. (30 Jan 2004)

Imagine News: A Neutron Star Emerges As A Rare Magnetic Emerald. (28 Jan 2004)

New National Virtual Observatory service hosted by the HEASARC. (21 Jan 2004)

2003

Imagine News: Einstein Makes Extra Dimensions Toe The Line. (17 Dec 2003)

The Chandra Cycle 6 Call for Proposals released. (16 Dec 2003)

The HEASOFT 5.3 software suite released. (25 Nov 2003)

Imagine News: Most Distant X-Ray Jet Yet Discovered Provides Clues To Big Bang. (17 Nov 2003)

X-Ray Background Tool version 2.1 released. (22 Oct 2003)

Browse version 6.8 released (10 Sep 2003)

Imagine News: Pulsars That Rock Space and Time. (2 Sep 2003)

Chandra's Cycle 5 recommended targests announced. (14 Jul 2003)

XMM AO3 accepted targets. (3 Jul 2003)

3000 Chandra datasets and 1740 XMM-Newton datasets available via Browse. (3 Jul 2003)

Imagine News: Rosetta Stone Decodes Gamma-Ray Burst Mystery. (26 Jun 2003)

Browse version 6.7 released. Details of the changes. (18 Jun 2003)

RXTE Cycle 9 proposal instructions. Detailed instructions page. (13 Jun 2003)

The X-ray Background Tool was updated to version 2.0. (13 Jun 2003)

Imagine News: Burst Behind the Sun Reveals Magnetic Charm of Distant Explosion. (10 Jun 2003)

For the second year in a row, SkyView makes Scientific American's top 50 science and technology web sites. (27 May 2003)

Imagine News: NASA Detects One Of Closest And Brightest Gamma Ray Bursts. (16 May 2003)

XMM-Newton Serendipitous Source Catalog available through Browse. (14 May 2003)

BeppoSAX re-entered after seven years of operation. (30 Apr 2003)

Web-based analysis: Hera released/ (15 Apr 2003)

The New York Times: high-school students analyze Chandra data. (10 Apr 2003)

Imagine News: The Hole Story? New Type of Black Hole Poses Challenges. (10 Apr 2003)

The XMM Serendipitous Source Catalogue was released. (9 Apr 2003)

BAX, an X-Ray Galaxy Clusters Database at Toulouse Observatory was released. (9 Apr 2003)

Imagine News: Chandra Sees Shape Of Universe During Formative, Adolescent Years. (3 Apr 2003)

HETE-2: NASA Detects One of Closest and Brightest Gamma Ray Bursts (31 Mar 2003)

HETE-2: Race to Gamma Ray Burst Reveals Gigantic Explosion, Death & Birth (19 Mar 2003)

Imagine News: HETE-2 result with videos and animation. (19 Mar 2003)

The XMM-Newton AO-3 released. (17 Mar 2003)

The X-ray Background tool was updated. (5 Mar 2003)

Imagine News: NASA Releases Stunning Images Of Our Infant Universe (12 Feb 2003)

Imagine News: Eta Carinae, a Home-Grown Mystery. (28 Jan 2003)

SAS v5.4.1 released. (16 Jan 2003)

SkyView featured in WIRED. (11 Jan 2003)

Photos of the AAS available. (6 Jan 2003)

2500 Chandra datasets and 1100 XMM-Newton datasets available via Browse. (2 Jan 2003)

2002

Browse version 6.6 released. Release notes (17 Dec 2002)

Imagine News: Exotic Innards of a Neutron Star Revealed in a Series of Explosions. (25 Nov 2002)

Imagine News: Chandra Discovers The History Of Black Hole X-Ray Jets. (13 Nov 2002)

2400 Chandra datasets, 900 XMM-Newton datasets, and NVSS Source Catalog and Images available via Browse. (29 Oct 2002)

Browse version 6.5 released. (22 Oct 2002)

Integral gamma-ray astronomy mission was successfully launched. (17 Oct 2002)

Imagine News: Europe opens a window onto a violent Universe. (17 Oct 2002)

Riccardo Giacconi wins 1/2 of the Nobel Prize for Physics. (8 Oct 2002)

New HEASARC load-balancing server brought online. (1 Oct 2002)

Imagine News: Space Movie Reveals Shocking Secrets of the Crab Pulsar went online. (20 Sep 2002)

The HEASARC announced that a new and much faster web server would replace its current server on about Sept 30. (19 Sep 2002)

Magnetar-like X-ray Bursts from an Anomalous X-ray Pulsar were announced in an issue of the journal Nature. NASA Press Release. (12 Sep 2002)

Over 9000 bibliographic links to XMM-Newton, ROSAT, ASCA and RXTE datasets archived at the HEASARC had been created. (3 Sep 2002)

The RXTE Cycle 8 announcement was released. (23 Aug 2002)

Released a new tool allowing astronomers from all wavelength regimes answer the age-old question: Is my favorite object an x-ray, gamma-ray, or EUV source? (21 Aug 2002)

HEASARC to participate in the GSFC NRC fellowship program. (19 Aug 2002)

XMM-Newton's AO2 results were announced. (26 Jul 2002)

HEASOFT 5.2 released and it has support for Mac OS X / Darwin. (25 Jun 2002)

History compiled for 40th anniversary of X-ray astronomy. (18 Jun 2002)

SkyView won a Scientific American Science and Technology web award. (3 Jun 2002)

Over 2000 Chandra datasets are now available via Browse. (31 May 2002)

The HEASARC Users Group's annual meeting took place on May 6 at GSFC. Presentations are available. (7 May 2002)

BeppoSAX mission scheduled to end at the end of April 2002. (18 Apr 2002)

The XMM-Newton archive is now online at Vilspa. (15 Apr 2002)

Browse 6.4 was released. (26 Mar 2002)

BeppoSAX progressively lost 4 of the 32 cells of Battery 1. (23 Feb 2002)

Imagine the Universe News article: Launch of NASA's HESSI spacecraft. (12 Feb 2002)

Over 1800 Chandra datasets available via Browse. (11 Feb 2002)

EUVE reentered the atmosphere at 23:15 EST on 30 Jan. (31 Jan 2002)

Imagine the Universe! News article "Local" Gamma-Ray Bursts Are Newest Pieces of Puzzle. (30 Jan 2002)

Two new pulsar catalogs available in Browse. (29 Jan 2002)

Browse 6.3 was released. (14 Jan 2002)

2001

Chandra Cycle 4 proposal submission deadline was March 15, 2002. (31 Dec 2001)

Scientific observations with RXTE have resumed. (5 Dec 2001)

Imagine the Universe News: A TIGER in Antarctica (30 Nov 2001)

Integral AO-1 Stage 2 Solicitations were due Feb 1, 2002. (30 Nov 2001)

RXTE experienced attitude control system (ACS) anomalies. (27 Nov 2001)

The RXTE Cycle 7 approved target list was released. (26 Nov 2001)

Craig Markwardt recovered the true attitude of RXTE from Sept 6-12, 2000. (26 Nov 2001)

Integral's AO-1 program was released at ESTEC. (8 Nov 2001)

A new X-ray Background Tool was released. (8 Nov 2001)

Browse 6.2 was released. (29 Oct 2001)

The EUVE Archive complete; all datasets public (9 Oct 2001)

All 3079 ASCA observations are now publicly available via the ASCAMASTER catalog (5 Oct 2001)

XMM-Newton AO2 released. (31 Aug 2001)

New version of Viewing tool improved for XMM-Newton. (31 Aug 2001)

Browse 6.1 was released. (28 Aug 2001)

The completed source catalogs of all ROSAT pointed observations was released. (10 Aug 2001)

CCfits version 1.0-beta released. (10 Aug 2001)

HEAsoft 5.1 was released. (8 Aug 2001)

The BeppoSAX AO5 target list was released. (6 Aug 2001)

NASA announces US/Japan team up for ASTRO-E2. (19 Jul 2001)

Browse 6.0 released. (11 Jul 2001)

Imagine the Universe: news story about the MAP launch and a special exhibit titled The Microwave Anisotropy Probe: The Universe Before Stars. (10 Jul 2001)

15 more XMM-Newton PV datasets made publically available. (29 Jun 2001)

RXTE Cycle 7 announced. (18 Jun 2001)

First NASA OSS EPO Conference announced. (13 Jun 2001)

xTime updated (4 Jun 2001)

Goddard's X-ray astronomy school announced. (11 May 2001)

HEASARC Web utilities have been improved: WebPIMMS, nH, and Viewing. (10 May 2001)

Tod Strohmayer announced the first observational evidence of a spinning black hole (30 Apr 2001)

BeppoSAX AO5 released (20 Apr 2001)

The BeppoSAX mission was extended for one year (10 Apr 2001)

Browse 5.3.1 was released (10 Apr 2001)

The Center for Extreme Ultraviolet Astronomy (CEA) closes, including ftp and Web sites. (27 Mar 2001)

NASA's AISR program funds a HEASARC-led program to build an automated classifier that can be used to determine the type of high-energy sources. (22 Mar 2001)

Deepest X-rays Ever Reveal Universe Teeming With Black Holes (14 Mar 2001)

HEASARC User's Group meeting announced. (13 Mar 2001)

New GAMMARAY master catalog added to Browse. (6 Mar 2001)

After an 8-year lifetime, the ASCA satellite reentered over the Pacific Ocean. (2 Mar 2001)

XMM-Newton first public datasets at the HEASARC (26 Feb 2001)

New/improved Browse databases: New Chandra Master database and vastly expanded XRAY and OPTICAL master catalogs. (26 Feb 2001)

NASA gives go-ahead for the Swift gamma-ray burst mission. (26 Feb 2001)

Swift data products will be made available with no proprietary period (26 Feb 2001)

New HEAsoft 5.0.4 Patch (21 Feb 2001)

CGRO re-entry video: Normal and Close-up (5 Feb 2001)

Not Seeing is Believing When it Comes to Event Horizon Evidence (1 Feb 2001)

EUVE mission ends (31 Jan 2001)