To find and download HEASARC data in the cloud, you can use astroquery.heasarc or download our new tool, hark.
The HEASARC and NuSTAR teams are greatly saddened by the sudden passing of Katja Pottschmidt. Most recently Katja was the lead scientist for the NuSTAR Guest Observer Facility (GOF), a role she had supported for many years. During her science career she worked on many other high energy astrophysics missions and played an integral role in advancing our knowledge of the universe. She was a wonderful colleague and friend and will be keenly missed by all who knew her.
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RELEASE NOTES FOR HEASOFT 6.33.2
April 22, 2024
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The HEASoft 6.33.2 patch release contains updates required for
building the source code with GCC 14.x as distributed with for
example, the Fedora 40 operating system. Additionally, it
includes fixes for a couple of NICER mission tasks and updates
Xspec to patch level 12.14.00h.
A patch installer is available for users who only want the NICER
updates.
To apply the latest Xspec patches please visit the Xspec issues page.
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NICER
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NICERDAS v12a:
- nicerl2: Fixed ignored 'gtifiles' parameter: nicerl2 was
silently ignoring the 'gtifiles' parameter, which is used to
merge user-defined GTI files with those done by nimaketime.
- niscorpspect: Removed SYS_ERR column if added by newer versions
of Xspec (v12.14.0d and newer)