2015B ORAC-DR Release Notes

These are the 2015B release notes containing changes since the 2015A Starlink release.

General

• Some contact email addresses have been updated.
• Allow object names with apostrophes or equals signs.
• Debug mode will now print the command lines used into the log.
• Line graphics leave gaps for missing values and hence are clearer.

ACSIS

• Legacy processing of large spatial areas or many input timeseries cubes now supports chunking to avoid addressing too many voxels.
• No longer create "cube" files in the REDUCE_SCIENCE_LEGACY recipe.
• Improvement made to spike filtering limits.
• Better handling of hybrid-spectra combination when the overlap is small.
• Tile borders removed from frame cubes.
• Improved histogram-peak finding algorithm to cope with more unusual distributions.
• Fixed bugs including calculation of median Tsys for large and sparse datasets, and flatfield determination for curtailed observations.

LCOGT

• Synchronised to 2015-10-22 LCOGT's subversion repository.

UKIRT

• Extends the search for sources in chopped observations but restricted to prevent picking up the wrong beam.
• Copes with chopped data where the original beam information is lost.
• New Michelle bad-pixel mask provided from 20150301.
• Switch suffix of output file of _STANDARD_BLACKBODY_ from _dbs to _std.
• Handle missing END header in FITS airlock when extracting sources.

JSA primitives

• _COPY_JSA_HEADERS_TO_FITS_FILE_ now includes the WAVELEN, BANDWID and OBJECT headers.
• _DETERMINE_CLASSES_ copies "locked" uhdr values to temporary objects.