Starlink Software Collection - Hikianalia Release Notes

General

New Applications

Changes to Applications

ATOOLS

* Added task ASTSPHMAP to create a SphMap. for transforming from three-dimensional Cartesian co-ordinates into a two-dimensional spherical co-ordinate system.

CONVERT

* Can process 64-bit integer data in ASCII2NDF, DA2NDF, FITS2NDF, NDF2ASCII, NDF2DA, NDF2FITS, NDF2UNF, and UNF2NDF.

GAIA

KAPPA

* New applications:

* Modified commands:

ORAC-DR

See http://www.oracdr.org/oracdr/ChangeLog

POLPACK

* A new command POLROTREF has been added to rotate the reference direction of a pair of Q and U images.

* The POLVEC command now omits vectors from positions that have negative total intensity values.

SCB

SCB is moving to obsolete and will not be installed by default.

SMURF

In addition, dimmconfig_bright_extended.lis now sets the value of FLT.FILT_EDGE_LARGESCALE to 600 arc-seconds for both 450 and 850 um. Previously, the defaults of 600 (at 450 um) and 300 (at 850 um) provided by dimmconfig.lis were accepted. Thus, the filter size has changed from 300 to 600 at 450 um.

SPLAT

* The major change in this release is much improved support for more complex SSAP queries. For instance you can now create server groups for more targeted queries according to the waveband or data source (theory/archive/survey for instance), as well as using your specific tags to create such groups.

* It is now also possible to add additional metadata parameters to the queries for the currently selected server list.

* New SSAP servers not currently registered can now be added manually.

* Access control for servers that use HTTP passwords is now implemented.

* Bug fixes in this release include:

Changes to Libraries

ATL

AST

* When a FitsChan is used to write an "offset" SkyFrame (see attribute SkyRefIs) to a FITS-WCS encoded header, two alternate axis descriptions are now created - one for the offset coordinates and one for the absolute coordinates. If such a header is subsequently read back into AST, the original offset SkyFrame is recreated.

* IMPORTANT! The default behaviour of astRebinSeq is now NOT to conserve flux. To conserve flux, the ASTCONSERVEFLUX flag should be supplied when calling astRebinSeq.

* A new flag ASTNONORM can be used with astRebinSeq<X> to indicate that normalisation of the output arrays is not required.

* The astRate method has been re-written to make it faster and more reliable.

* When reading a FrameSet from a FITS-DSS header, the keywords CNPIX1 and CNPIX2 now default to zero if absent. Previously an error was reported.

* The FitsChan class can now read FITS headers that use the SAO convention for representing distorted TAN projections, based on the use of "COi_j" keywords to hold the coefficients of the distortion polynomial.

* Bug fixes:

HDS

KAPLIBS

NDF

NDG

has no supplemental information, rather than return blank field values.

this caused all KAPPA applications to ignore any value set for environment variable NDF_AUTO_HISTORY.