Old News Items
- SPICE has been updated with a new LH spectral extraction algorithm and corresponding flux calibration for S17.2 pipeline-processed data. See the SPICE page for more information. Note: This is the final update for which Solaris 8 will be supported. Future updates will support only Solaris 10.
- The new and improved Online Manual for MOPEX has been released, along with brand new Data Reduction and Analysis Cookbooks to offer a guided step-by-step walk-through of how to reduce your Spitzer data.
- The latest update to MOPEX has been released, with bug fixes and the inclusion of uncertainties for aperture photometry. The update should be installed via the MOPEX GUI for both the GUI and command-line versions. See Updating MOPEX for instructions on how to enable the auto-update feature. See the MOPEX Change Log for a full list of changes in this and prior releases. Note: This is the final update for which Solaris 8 will be supported. Future updates will support only Solaris 10.
- Aug 07: The new SPICE GUI has been released!
- June 07: The new MOPEX GUI has been released! We have also released an updated command-line version of MOPEX, distributed with the GUI. Note that the name of the environment file in this new command-line release has changed from mopex.csh to mopex-script-env.csh.
- June 07: IRAC Pipeline Muxbleed Correction: The IRAC pipeline did not have the muxbleed correction properly implemented until pipeline version S16. New data with pipeline processing versions S16 onwards will have the correct correction applied. The next comprehensive IRAC data reprocessing will probably take place in S17 (later this year) or S18 (late Spring to Summer 2008). See the IRAC Data Analysis page for more information.
- June 07: Updated SPICE calibration files for Hi-Res data: Four incorrect calibration files were included in the last calibration update for SPICE. The incorrect files are C15.0/b1_aploss_fluxcon.tbl, C15.0/b3_aploss_fluxcon.tbl, C15.0PRE25/b1_aploss_fluxcon.tbl and C15.0PRE25/b3_aploss_fluxcon.tbl. These files are ONLY used when applying extended source calibration to high resolution (SH, LH) data processed with pipelines S15 onwards. See the SPICE page for more information. CUBISM is not affected.
- 9 Jan 07: New version of IRSCLEAN released (v1.7)
- 20 Nov 06: SMART version 6.2.4 released
- 6 Nov 06: Latest version of SPICE released (v1.4.1)
- 18 Oct 06: New version of CUBISM software package (v1.02)
- 2 Jun 06: Release of MOPEX package (version 030106) for mac (see
solaris/linux note below for new capabilities and documentation)
- 29 Mar 06: Release of MOPEX package (version 030106) for solaris/linux
featuring:
- A new outlier detection method called Box Outlier
- A new recommendation to use THRESH_OPTION = 1 if using Multiframe Temporal Outlier detection method
- A new perl script for computing aperture
photometry (aperture.pl).
- Two different background subtractions are now used in apex.pl and
apex_1frame.pl
WARNING!!! The namelists used for apex.pl and apex_1frame.pl from
previous releases of MOPEX are not compatible with MOPEX 030106.
- 29 Mar 06: New and updated documentation for MOPEX:
- Updates the Mosaicker and APEX User's Guide
- Updates the Frequently Asked Questions about MOPEX
- Updates the mosaic_sed documentation
- Computing Aperture Photometry documentation
- 2 Mar 06: new version of SPICE released
- 16 Dec 05: IRSCLEAN_MASK and IRSCLEAN released
- 17 Oct 05: A bug has been fixed in the mosaic_reint MOPEX script
(Solaris and linux version). If no uncertainty images were given, the
module was ignoring the rmask. The module detect_radhit (linux version only)
was also updated. There was a problem with it when run with kernel 2.6.
- 3 Oct 05: Release of MOPEX package (version 093005) featuring:
- Added support for Mac OS X, 10.3 and 10.4
- Added a perl script (mosaic_sed.pl) for MIPS SED mosaicking and spectral
extraction
- Added capability to do moving object mosaicking using mosaic.pl (new
keyword MOVING_OBJECT_MOSAIC)
- Added the bicubic interpolation option (INTERP_METHOD = 4)
- 3 Oct 05: New and updated documentation for MOPEX:
- Updates the Mosaicker and APEX User's Guide
- radhit_stat documentation
- mosaic_sed documentation
- Creating PRF file for IRAC1_PRF4x_300.pdf
- 21 Jul 05: Release of bandmerge version S13-beta1, featuring support for RedHat Linux 8+, and support for Mac OS X, 10.3 and 10.4, as well as various bug fixes.
- 12 Jul 05: Release of SPICE v. 1.1-beta16 version containing
replaced sample data files with S12.0.2 versions.
- 12 Jul 05: Release of SMART v. 5.5.6.
- 24 Jun 05: A bug has been found in the mosaic_rmask module of the
MOPEX package version 050905. The module didn't read the
refined pointing and the outlier maps were projected
slightly off, thereby partially missing the radhits. The
module has been fixed in the MOPEX tar files
mopex_software_050905.tar.gz and
mopex_software_linux_050905.tar.gz. Alternatively, for
users that have already downloaded and installed the MOPEX
package, please grab the fixed module mosaic_rmask (Sun
version: mosaic_rmask and
Linux version: mosaic_rmask) and
use it to replace the old mosaic_rmask file in the bin
subdirectory.
- 24 Jun 05: New release of SPICE which includes the following highlights:
- Support for Mac OS X, 10.3 and 10.4
- Read support for BITPIX=-64 fits images
- Changed menu of manual order selection in Profile
- Update of Extract order selection based on order selection in Profile
- cal/cdf files for S12.0.2
- 09 May 05: New release of MOPEX (now comes in two separate tar files:
mopex_050905_software.tar.gz and mopex_050905_data.tar.gz).
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