Swift News #026: Software/Calibration Updates

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January 13, 2009

 New release of the Swift software and calibration data is available
 for download.

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 Software :
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  The Swift software (version 3.1) has been released as part of the HEAsoft version 6.6.1
  and can be downloaded from:

    http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/software/lheasoft/download.html 

  The changes in the Swift software and related packages are listed in the 
  HEAsoft Release Notes 6.6.1 at:

    http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/software/lheasoft/release_notes.html 

  Both source and binary distributions are available for all supported platforms. 
  These are listed at:

    http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/lheasoft/supported_platforms.html 

  For detailed installation information, see the install document, available online 
  (or in each distribution) at:

    http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/lheasoft/install.html 

  Please report any Swift software problem via:

    http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/Feedback 

  and select Swift under "Choose a mailing list"

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Calibration:
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 The latest calibration version for all instruments are :
 BAT (20081026) XRT (20081215), UVOT(20081028) and MIS(20090112)
 
  The list of updates are available in the release notes at:

    http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/heasarc/caldb/swift/ 

 The Swift CALDB can be downloaded via the Web at or via anonymous ftp 
 to be installed on the user's machine or local network, or can be accessed remotely.

*** DOWNLOAD CALDB on the LOCAL MACHINE

 There is one tar file for each instrument (BAT, XRT and UVOT) and one for miscellaneous 
 common Swift calibration files (MIS). The contents of the latter (MIS) have been already 
 included in the CALDB tar files for each instrument, therefore is not necessary to 
 download the MIS tar file separately.

 The CALDB tar files are available from the CALDB Swift Web page at :

    http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/heasarc/caldb/swift/ 

or via anonymous ftp at:

    ftp://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/caldb/data/swift/bat/goodfiles_swift_bat.tar.Z
    ftp://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/caldb/data/swift/xrt/goodfiles_swift_xrt.tar.Z
    ftp://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/caldb/data/swift/uvota/goodfiles_swift_uvota.tar.Z 

 The CALDB installation procedure is available at:

    http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/heasarc/caldb/caldb_install.html 

*** REMOTE CALDB ACCESS

 It is also possible to access the CALDB remotely without the need to download and install
  locally this database. The instructions to set up the remote CALDB access are available from:

    http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/heasarc/caldb/caldb_remote_access.html 

*** HELP

 Please report any problems with the installation procedure to:

    http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/Feedback 

 and select CALDB under "Choose a mailing list"