Suzaku News #026: Release of Suzaku software (v4.0) and calibration data

[Michael Arida <arida@milkyway.gsfc.nasa.gov>]

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March 7, 2007

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

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 Software :
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  The Suzaku software (version 4.0) has been released as part of the
  HEAsoft version 6.2 and can be downloaded from:

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

  The changes in the Suzaku software and related packages are listed
  in the HEAsoft Release Notes 6.2 at:

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

  Both source and binary distributions are available for all the
  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 Suzaku software problem via:

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

  and select Suzaku under "Choose a mailing list"


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Calibration:
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   The latest calibration files released for all instruments are:
   HXD (20070302), XIS(20070302) and XRT (20060720).

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

  *** DOWNLOAD CALDB on the LOCAL MACHINE

  There is one tar file for each instrument (HXD, XIS and XRT).
  They include the XRS CALDB file (the teldef) necessary to run some of
  the software tools.
  The CALDB tar files are available from the CALDB Suzaku Web page at :

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

  or via anonymous ftp at:

    ftp://legacy.gsfc.nasa.gov/caldb/data/suzaku/hxd/goodfiles_suzaku_hxd.tar.Z
    ftp://legacy.gsfc.nasa.gov/caldb/data/suzaku/xis/goodfiles_suzaku_xis.tar.Z
    ftp://legacy.gsfc.nasa.gov/caldb/data/suzaku/xrt/goodfiles_suzaku_xrt.tar.Z

  The CALDB installation procedure is available at:

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

  *** NOTE on the current access to CALDB

  Note that not all Suzaku tasks support the automatic queries to CALDB.
  For the Suzaku tasks that do not yet have this support but require files
  in CALDB, the full path and filename to CALDB files has to be explicitly
  given in the Suzaku software task parameter.

  *** 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"

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