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.
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PIMMS Version 4.11/4.11a/4.101 Release Notes
- New in Version 4.11/4.11a/4.11b (Released 2020 Feb 27/Aug 26/2021 Mar 11)
- Version 4.11b contains an updated set of effective area curves for
Chandra instruments, suitable for Cycle 23 proposal preparation.
- Version 4.11a contains updated effective area curves for INTEGRAL ISGRI,
NICER, and XMM-Newton EPIC instruments. The update for ISGRI is the
first since 2008 and changes in PIMMS outputs are notable. The new
effective area curve for NICER is suitable for Cycle 3 proposers,
although the differences are minor compared with the previous (Cycle 2)
version. The update of the various EPIC effective area curves is intended
for AO-20 propoers, but the differences from the previous (AO-19) versions
are smaller than other the likely precision of PIMMS estimates.
- Version 4.11 contains a new X-ray absroption model: an approximation of
the tbabs model in xspec, with the "wilmquot;
abundances. This model is now the deafult; should it be desirable, the
new ABSORPTION command can be used to specify the old (Morrision and
McCammon) absorption model. The two can result in predictions that are
different by about 10% from each other.
- Version 4.11 updates the instrument specific output for XMM pn. The
changes reflect the fact that the project does not support the use of
timing and burst options for EPIC pn with thin or medium filters any
more; these modes continue to be supported with the thick filter, however.
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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.
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