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Important Upcoming Meetings and Proposal Deadlines 
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The deadline for final registration and for abstract submission for poster presentations for the Radio Galaxies in the Chandra Era workshop in Cambridge, Mass. (July 8-11) is May 21st. The deadline for proposals for the Astrophysics Theory and Fundamental Physics component of NASA's Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Sciences (ROSES) - 2008 is May 30th. The deadline for early registration for the 37th COSPAR Scientific Assembly and related scientific events in Montreal (Jul 13-20) is June 1st.
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Recent News |
Jul 28 - Aug 1, 2008 at University of Urbino, Urbino, Italy XMM-Newton International Users Group Presentations This catalog (Clark et al. 2008) is now available in Browse 12.4.0aa patch released on 01 May 2008; fakeit command bug fix, more ... UVOTA (updated 28 Apr 2008) and general SpaceCraft (SC) data updated... (Updated Apr 14 2008) includes revised effective area curves for future missions Constellation-X and XEUS, as well as updated curves for Swift UVOT (except grisms) and for INTEGRAL ISGRI and JEM-X ... ABC guide to XMM-Newton data analysis for SAS>7.1 XMM 2008 NASA Senior Review science section The updated 2008 version is now available in Browse new version of the object oriented interface to the cfitsio library, more ... 12.4.0y patch released on 23 Apr 2008; bug fixes relating to the case where a fit parameter is pegged in a Lev-Marq fit, more ... The CGRaBS Catalog is now available in Browse 12.4.0x patches released on 21 Apr 2008; updated for HEASOFT 6.4.1 Released 21-Apr-2008; release of the Suzaku (version 8) software, but also includes Suzaku-related updates to xselect/extractor, bugfixes, more... Updated 15-Apr-2008; Windows native printing, gui enhancements, more... HESSCAT is now available in Browse Update 01 Apr 2008: XIS and HXD calibration data have been updated, no foolin'... 12.4.0u,v,w patches released; model, weight command updated Swift SC and BAT CALDB updated, more... The long-term schedule for the first 4 months of AO-3 period is available 12.4.0s,t patches released; plot efficiency, data commands updated Optical Monitor data and a source catalog are available 12.4.0q,r patches released 12.4.0n,o,p patches released; Levenberg-Marquardt fitting, xmmpsf and suzpsf mixing components, other fixes 12.4.0m patch released; The start-up statistic, method, and weight settings in the user's Xspec.init file were effectively ignored. The list of accepted AO-3 targets is available 12.4.0l patch released; Problem with error command. Download through the SOC or the GSFC Mirror 12.4.0j and 12.4.0k patches released; When loading its model initialization file, XSPEC is not properly parsing model parameters with multi-word unit labels, such as the xi parameter of the pexriv model(12.4.0j). Unfolded spectrum plots (plot ufspec, eufspec, eeufspec) cannot be performed on energy bins with widths smaller than 10^-4 keV. (12.4.0k). Spacecraft (SC) calibration data updated for Swift. 12.4.0h and 12.4.0i patches released; The Y-axis label for plot chisq should include sign(data-model) rather than |data-model| (12.4.0h). Table model calculations ignore theredshift parameter z if it is set to a negative value (12.4.0i). Latest Mission News and Object of Interest - How Many Supernovae Are There in the Milky Way? updated ignore and notice commands in certain contexts, increased response matrix convolution capability.... plot ufspec does not plot spectral data points whose corresponding folded model values are negative.... Spacecraft (SC) calibration data updated for Swift. XIS and HXD calibration data have been updated... DOS-mode scripts (with their extra carriage-return characters) are not properly handled for multi-line commands, more ... ESA has released the Key Programs selected to be observed during the upcoming AO-6 observing cycle. They include observations of the Galactic Center region, the Cygnus region, the Virgo Cluster, the North Ecliptic Pole, and the SMC. bkn model abbreviation fixed ... bug fixes ... new set of effective area curves for Chandra Cycle 10 ... RGS offset values update... Improved Mac OSX 10.5 support, more... Markov Chain Monte Carlo updated, more... XRT calibration data for Swift and HXD calibration data for Suzaku updated. Spacecraft (SC) calibration data updated for Swift. XIS calibration data have been updated... The gabs model is wrong and gives results dependent on the energy bin size. Our thanks to Takao Kitaguchi for pointing this out. Report added on Nov 26, 2007 ... UVOTA calibration data updated for Swift. HXD and XIS on Suzaku, and XRT, UVOTA and SC updated on Swift. When a fakeit run is using a response with first legal channel number (TLMIN4) = 0, and is NOT based on an already existing spectrum, the last channel is erroneously ignored and always ends up with 0 counts. Our thanks to David Morris for pointing this out. Report added on Oct 31, 2007. Infrequent but significant errors can occur in ASM source intensities. XIS and HXD data updated 16-Oct-2007 Updated 15-Oct-2007; tclout plink option change, more... Updated 24-Sep-2007; patch release primarily for the Swift (version 2.7.2) software, but also includes an update to the XTE task 'pcabackest', more... Updated 20-Aug-2007; some output formatting improvements, more... Listed by RA. The nH tool has been updated with support for additional coordinate systems Viewing tool updated to support Swift Cycle 4 The AKBAR system has been renamed ARK: the Astrophysics Research Knowledgebase Added a progress box on the tabbed results display page to show how many tables have been processed. When processing is complete the table and row totals are displayed. Viewing tool updated to support XMM-Newtoon AO7 |
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