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                       RELEASE NOTES FOR HEASOFT 6.35.1
                                March 27, 2025
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The HEASoft 6.35.1 patch release consists solely of an update to
the 'extractor' task, as noted below.

Please visit the following link to apply this update to an existing
HEASoft 6.35 installation:

  https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/software/lheasoft/patch.html

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- extractor: Correction for the errors on the Q and U Stokes
  parameter spectra and light curves.  This correction applies
  only when the extractor parameter "stoke" is set to "simple"
  or "unweighted" and has no effect if the parameter "stoke"
  is set to "neff".
    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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