Starlink Software Collection — 2017A Release Notes
Highlights
- The latest version of the POL-2 data reduction software is included.
Changes to Applications
ATOOLS
- Added a "DISTANCE" output parameter to astdistance.
CONVERT
- Improved recognition of data products from SMURF.
- A dummy BINTABLE is now always created for the SMURF extension.
CUPID ([[ http://ascl.net/1311.007 | ascl:ascl:1311.007 ]])
- Improved accuracy of calculation of clump volumes.
- Corrected clump centroid pixel positions.
- Sped up clump extraction by omitting history and provenance.
GAIA (ascl:1403.024)
- Added unicoderadec option to control if unicode RA and Dec labels are used.
- Corrected a bug where links in the help system could have mangled URLs.
KAPPA (ascl:1403.022)
- Added scale and offset to ALIGN2D output parameter TR if FITVAL is enabled.
- Modified DISPLAY parameter KEYPOS to allow the vertical position also to be specified.
- Allowed a subset of pens to be used with the new DISPLAY parameter PENRANGE.
- Allowed axis scales to be retained in SQORST.
- Added a new facility for creating a log in text format.
ORAC-DR (ascl:1310.001)
POLPACK (ascl:1405.014)
Updates for POL-2 data reduction.
SMURF (ascl:1310.007)
- Retain spike flags between iterations of skyloop.
Allowed zero_snrlo parameters to be zero. Dimmconfig files which set ast.zero_snrlo=0 should now set ast.zero_snrlo=<undef> to retain the previous behavior. The same goes for com.zero_snrlo, flt.zero_snrlo, ssn.zero_snrlo and pca.zero_snrlo.
- Included consideration of map offsets when checking for positional excursions with SCUBA-2.
- Improved handling of gaps in fitted CSO and WVM opacity data.
- Updated list of dates on which the JCMT WVM is considered unusable (in auto mode) to include 3/29/2017. (Its usage can be forced with the ext.tausrc=wvmraw option if desired.)
- Added support for the new JCMT DTAI FITS header. This gives the offset of TAI from UTC and will now be used in preference to the leap second information in AST when set.
- Added MAKECUBE parameter POSERRMAX to control the allowed discrepancy between RECEPPOS and FPLANEX/Y. The default value of this parameter is 3" whereas the tolerance was previously fixed at 1".
Updates for POL-2 data reduction.
SOURCEPLOT
- The included JCMT source catalog has been updated.
SPLAT ([[ http://ascl.net/1402.007 | ascl:1402.007 ]])
- Avoid an error which could occur when the content type of a remote resource could not be determined.
SST
- PROLAT can now preserve line breaks and indentation in LaTeX output.
STILTS ([[ http://ascl.net/1105.001 | ascl:1105.001 ]])
- Updated to version 3.1.
TOPCAT (ascl:1101.010)
- Updated to version 4.4.
Changes to Libraries
AST (ascl:1404.016)
Improved simplification of NormMaps.
Corrected TranForward and TranInverse attribute values returned by inverted PolyMaps.
Added ChebyMap class.
- Added new frame attribute Dtai.
CAT
- Allowed non-alphanumeric characters in catalog file names.
PCS
- Increased maximum command line length.
STIL
- Updated to version 3.2.