CALDB PUBLIC RELEASE NOTES CALDB DATE: 15 DEC 2003 17:00PM EST PUBLIC RELEASE of CALDB 2.25 with proposal planning tools and CIAO 3.0.2. I. SUMMARY of CHANGES A. CYCLE 06 PIMMS Effective Area Files The new files to be used by the PIMMS count rate estimation routine for the standard 16 configurations are being released. These files are NOT read directly by PIMMS from your local CALDB; however they have been read into your installations during the building process for the proposal tools for Cycle 6. FILENAMES/locations: $CALDB/data/chandra/acis/cpf/pimms/ acisiD2003-10-31pimmsN0006.fits acissD2003-10-31pimmsN0006.fits $CALDB/data/chandra/hrc/cpf/pimms/ hrciD2003-10-31pimmsN0006.fits hrcsD2003-10-31pimmsN0006.fits $CALDB/data/chandra/tel/grating/hetg/cpf/pimms/ (indexed under ACIS) acisihetg0D2003-10-31pimmsN0006.fits acissheg1D2003-10-31pimmsN0006.fits acisshegmeg1D2003-10-31pimmsN0006.fits acisshetg0D2003-10-31pimmsN0006.fits acissmeg1D2003-10-31pimmsN0006.fits $CALDB/data/chandra/tel/grating/letg/cpf/pimms/ (indexed under ACIS) acisiletg0D2003-10-31pimmsN0006.fits acissleg1D2003-10-31pimmsN0006.fits acissletg0D2003-10-31pimmsN0006.fits (indexed under HRC) hrciletg0D2003-10-31pimmsN0006.fits hrcsleg1D2003-10-31pimmsN0006.fits hrcsleghiD2003-10-31pimmsN0006.fits hrcsletg0D2003-10-31pimmsN0006.fits B. HRC-I QE version 7 (Mean QE for the full plate) FILENAME: hrciD1999-07-22qeN0007.fits Location: $CALDB/data/chandra/hrc/bcf/qe/ A 7% increase in the QE over the 0.277-1.0 keV range, due to a correction in the cross calibration between HRC-I and HRC-S. C. HETG/ACIS-S +/- 1st order Canned Grating RMFs version 5 Location: $CALDB/data/chandra/tel/grating/hetg/cpf/rmf/ (indexed under ACIS) FILENAMES: acisheg-1D1999-07-22rmfN0005.fits acisheg1D1999-07-22rmfN0005.fits acismeg-1D1999-07-22rmfN0005.fits acismeg1D1999-07-22rmfN0005.fits D. PCAD ALIGN/FID_POS version 5 Location: $CALDB/data/chandra/pcad/bcf/align/ FILENAMES: data/chandra/pcad/bcf/align/pcadD1999-07-19alignN0005.fits data/chandra/pcad/bcf/align/pcadD1999-07-29alignN0005.fits data/chandra/pcad/bcf/align/pcadD1999-08-08alignN0005.fits data/chandra/pcad/bcf/align/pcadD1999-08-18alignN0005.fits data/chandra/pcad/bcf/align/pcadD1999-08-28alignN0005.fits data/chandra/pcad/bcf/align/pcadD1999-09-07alignN0005.fits data/chandra/pcad/bcf/align/pcadD1999-09-17alignN0005.fits data/chandra/pcad/bcf/align/pcadD1999-09-27alignN0005.fits data/chandra/pcad/bcf/align/pcadD1999-10-07alignN0005.fits data/chandra/pcad/bcf/align/pcadD1999-10-17alignN0005.fits data/chandra/pcad/bcf/align/pcadD1999-10-27alignN0005.fits data/chandra/pcad/bcf/align/pcadD1999-11-06alignN0005.fits data/chandra/pcad/bcf/align/pcadD1999-12-01alignN0005.fits data/chandra/pcad/bcf/align/pcadD2000-01-01alignN0005.fits data/chandra/pcad/bcf/align/pcadD2000-02-01alignN0005.fits data/chandra/pcad/bcf/align/pcadD2000-03-01alignN0005.fits data/chandra/pcad/bcf/align/pcadD2000-04-01alignN0005.fits data/chandra/pcad/bcf/align/pcadD2000-05-01alignN0005.fits data/chandra/pcad/bcf/align/pcadD2000-06-01alignN0005.fits data/chandra/pcad/bcf/align/pcadD2000-07-01alignN0005.fits data/chandra/pcad/bcf/align/pcadD2000-08-01alignN0005.fits data/chandra/pcad/bcf/align/pcadD2000-09-01alignN0005.fits data/chandra/pcad/bcf/align/pcadD2000-10-01alignN0005.fits data/chandra/pcad/bcf/align/pcadD2000-11-01alignN0005.fits data/chandra/pcad/bcf/align/pcadD2000-12-01alignN0005.fits data/chandra/pcad/bcf/align/pcadD2001-01-01alignN0005.fits data/chandra/pcad/bcf/align/pcadD2001-02-01alignN0005.fits data/chandra/pcad/bcf/align/pcadD2001-03-01alignN0005.fits data/chandra/pcad/bcf/align/pcadD2001-04-01alignN0005.fits data/chandra/pcad/bcf/align/pcadD2001-05-01alignN0005.fits data/chandra/pcad/bcf/align/pcadD2001-06-01alignN0005.fits data/chandra/pcad/bcf/align/pcadD2001-07-01alignN0005.fits data/chandra/pcad/bcf/align/pcadD2001-08-01alignN0005.fits data/chandra/pcad/bcf/align/pcadD2001-09-01alignN0005.fits data/chandra/pcad/bcf/align/pcadD2001-10-01alignN0005.fits data/chandra/pcad/bcf/align/pcadD2001-11-01alignN0005.fits data/chandra/pcad/bcf/align/pcadD2001-12-01alignN0005.fits data/chandra/pcad/bcf/align/pcadD2002-01-01alignN0005.fits data/chandra/pcad/bcf/align/pcadD2002-02-01alignN0005.fits data/chandra/pcad/bcf/align/pcadD2002-03-01alignN0005.fits data/chandra/pcad/bcf/align/pcadD2002-04-01alignN0005.fits data/chandra/pcad/bcf/align/pcadD2002-05-01alignN0005.fits data/chandra/pcad/bcf/align/pcadD2002-06-01alignN0005.fits data/chandra/pcad/bcf/align/pcadD2002-07-01alignN0005.fits data/chandra/pcad/bcf/align/pcadD2002-08-01alignN0005.fits data/chandra/pcad/bcf/align/pcadD2002-09-01alignN0005.fits data/chandra/pcad/bcf/align/pcadD2002-10-01alignN0005.fits data/chandra/pcad/bcf/align/pcadD2002-11-01alignN0005.fits data/chandra/pcad/bcf/align/pcadD2002-12-01alignN0005.fits II. Technical Details A. Cycle 6 PIMMS Effective Areas See the web page: http://cxc.harvard.edu/caldb/prop_plan/pimms/ and associated links for plots and technical details B. HRC-I QE We have updated to the HRC-I MCP quantum efficiency (QE) model based on calibration observations of the variable blazar PKS 2155-304 taken in November 2002. The HRC-I observation of PKS 2155-304 was taken between two HRC-S/LETG observations of the source. These HRC-S/LETG observations allowed us to model the source and predict a count rate for the HRC-I observation. We found that this predicted rate (based on the old (v2.1) HRC-I QE model) is ~7% lower than the observed rate. Therefore, we have increased the MCP QE model of the HRC-I in the energy range 0.277 - 1.0 keV where PKS 2155-304 radiates strongly and where we previously had no flight data. With this update (v2.2), we bring the observed and predicted count rates for PKS 2155-304 to within ~1% agreement. See http://asc.harvard.edu/cal/Hrc/Flight/mcp_qe_i.v2.2_comp.jpg for a plot of the data. http://asc.harvard.edu/cal/Hrc/mcp_qe.html is the main HRC QE web page. Threads affected: HRC-I Exposure Map (mk_inst_map and mk_exp_map) http://cxc.harvard.edu/ciao/threads/expmap_hrc/index.html C. HETG/ACIS-S GRMFs version 5 See the HETGS Line Spread Function web site located at http://space.mit.edu/CXC/LSFX/index.html for technical details. Threads affected: Proposal planning threads only. See http://cxc.harvard.edu/proposer/threads/ D. PCAD ALIGN/FID_POS files version 5 This affects ASPECT L1 processing in SDP only, not CIAO as currently configured. The justification for these changes may be found at http://asc.harvard.edu/mta/ASPECT/fid_sim_z/2003_nov_update/ Basically this is to insert corrections for the ACIS-S fid light positions to allow corrections in the ACIS-S astrometry at the level of one arc second or less. This is extreme fine-tuning of the ACIS-S sky positions, effective for the entire observational period of Chandra since launch.