• 15.0.1: Minor updates to the useful scripts to link to the places where advice for each scripts' topic can be found
• 15.0.1: Minor updates to the PDRG and PPE to link to the new documentation placed on the Herschel Legacy Library pages, and to reflect recent advice provided in the PACS Handbook there.

• Using the final, legacy URLs, to the calibration tree and some auxiliary files (e.g. Planck all sky maps) in the interactive useful scripts.
• sourceTimelineFitter now ignores samples from serendipity scans.

• Minor updates to the useful scripts to link to the places where advice for each scripts' topic can be found

• Minor updates to the PDRG and PPE to link to the new documentation placed on the Herschel Legacy Library pages, and to reflect recent advice provided in the PACS Handbook there.

• 15.0.1: a fix was applied to fitBaseline so that it again takes into account flags added by the user interactively (there was a bug in 15.0.0)
  

• 15.0.1: The documentation has been updated to reflect the changes to the Herschel Science Archive interface, which is now a web application instead of a Java application.

• 15.0.1: fitBaseline again takes into account flags added via the Spectrum Explorer

• 15.0.1: sourceTimelineFitter now ignores serendipity scans

• An update to the aperture corrections calibration file for photometry

• An update to the aperture correction factors has been added to the final calibration tree (version 78). In the previous version, only the medium scan speed prime mode aperture corrections were provided in the table. However, the corrections actually depend on the scan speed and are different for the prime/parallel mode. Therefore, the medium, fast, prime, and parallel values are all provided in this final calibration file release. The differences depend on the aperture one uses when performing the aperture photometry. For smaller aperture sizes the difference can be quite large, by about 2xFWHM (of the beam) they becomes negligible. To take advantage of the new corrections it is necessary to re-run the aperture correction task providing two optional parameters: parallelObservation (True/False) and scanSpeed (20 or 60).

• A new General Useful Script named Astrometry Thermoelastic Drift Correction has been introduced, allowing to perform a tentative astrometry correction for those observations taken under 'warm' attitude conditions (Star Tracker 2 temperature > -15 C) resulting in small pointing drifts.

• An update to the aperture corrections calibration file for photometry (with very small differences compared to previously)
• A minor addition to the spectroscopy pipeline tasks (update of the Meta data "ra" and "dec" to all Level 2 cubes)
• Information about extracting uncertainties from scan maps has been added to the PDRG for photometry (chp. 4)

• Addition of centerRaDecMetaData to the interactive pipeline scripts, with the result that the Meta data "ra" and "dec" are updated to be the actual centre of each cube, separately. This affects the Meta data only, not the actual spatial grid of the cubes.

• An update to the aperture correction factors for the prime and parallel modes has been added to the final calibration tree (version 78)

• extractSpaxelSpectrum and the pointSourceLossCorrection tasks now propagate the spectral errors

• A new section in chp. 4 of the PDRG for photometry includes a guide to getting the uncertainties for scan maps
• A basic explanation of the forward modelling tool has been added to the PDRG for spectroscopy (chps 8, 9) and to the PACS documentation page (accessible via the HSC main pages)

Interactive Analysis and Tools

Documentation

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• A new pointing product that takes into account the updated rotation matrix/quaternion and corrects the filtered attitude. This product can be used by the user to reprocess the observation.
• New Level 2 products (only applicable to Photometry) where the offsets in RA y DEC (derived from the Z-axis offset) have been used to adjust the WCS.

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• A new General Useful Script named Astrometry Thermoelastic Drift Correction has been introduced, allowing to perform a tentative astrometry correction due to a thermoelastic drift.

• The task convertK2Jy has been upgraded in order to take as a new input parameter a model for the source brightness distribution shape.
• A new task identifyLinesCatalog has been introduced, allowing to assign spectral species and transitions to a catalogue of spectral features passed as input.

• The masking of lines has been improved in the task mkRms.

• Spectrum task extract is faster than in previous versions.
• Parameters showFlags, showWeight, showGrid and displayRows have been added to the openSE task.

• A new pointing product that takes into account the updated rotation matrix/quaternion and corrects the filtered attitude. This product can be used by the user to reprocess the observation.
• New Level 2 products (only applicable to Photometry) where the offsets in RA y DEC (derived from the Z-axis offset) have been used to adjust the WCS.

• openVariable is able to open a variable directly, in addition to opening it by name. For example:

Herschel Science Archive

Useful Scripts

External libraries

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• The task convertK2Jy has been upgraded in order to take as a new input parameter a model for the source brightness distribution shape.
• A new task identifyLinesCatalog has been introduced, allowing to assign spectral species and transitions to a catalogue of spectral features passed as input.
• The documentation has been revised to ensure a consolidated and conherent set of legacy manuals.
• The masking of lines has been improved in the task mkRms.

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• Open votable files directly through Open With VO Table Reader

• Save browse image products directly to jpeg via the new saveAsJpeg method and also via right-click Send to options from Data Panel

• Instrument must now be specified when querying parallel observations via the getObservation task.
• The getObservation task now supports interruption meaning the Stop button in HIPE can be used to halt the process when loading an observation.
• Created a new task for writing TableDataset to VO table XML files.
• Created a new task for reading VO table XML files into a TableDataset.
• It is now possible to read FITS files without modifying their FITS header using the RawFitsReader functionality which is provided by FitsArchive and also available via the simpleFitsReader Task

archive = FitsArchive()
archive.setReader(FitsArchive.RAW_READER)
product = archive.load('file_path')

#Alternatively use the raw option provided with simpleFitsReader
product = simpleFitsReader(file='file_path', reader='raw')

• Coordination between the selected spectra and the spectrum explorer made more rational.
• Option to choose the target spectra for the selected task added in preferences.
• Former Create variable option in the spectrum plot is split into Create plot variable (referring to the SE plot) and Create plot copy (creating a copy of the spectrum plot, outside the SE).

• Spectrum task extract is faster than in previous versions.
• Parameters showFlags, showWeight, showGrid and displayRows have been added to the openSE task.

• The cube explorer opens the preview panel from start. This solves the bothersome behaviour of previous versions where it appeared when hovering the mouse on a spaxel, thus moving the spaxels display from below the mouse cursor.
• The cube toolbox drop-down list shows tasks in a more logical order.
• Ranges in tasks of the cube toolbox have to be defined afresh when a new task is selected.

• The Applicable node of the Tasks view is opened by default, so tasks applicable to the current selection are more directly visible.

• Trying to change the task name or prime input, once the task has been constructed, throws an exception.

Editors & Viewers

• Editor for XML / HTML files added.
• Internal browser for HTML files provided.
• External browser for HTML files available through Open With.

Console

Improved auto-completion mechanism.

Plug-ins

• The plug-ins dialogue has been made more user friendly.
• Plug-ins can not only add sub-panels in the Variables view, but also remove existing ones.

• The automatic multiple output task checker that was introduced with the transition from HIPE 12.0 to HIPE 13.0 has been removed.
• openVariable is able to open a variable directly, in addition to opening it by name. For example:

p = Product()
openVariable("p")  # already available with previous versions of HIPE
openVariable(p)    # also available since HIPE 15.0

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• A new Useful script named Astrometry Thermoelastic Drift Correction has been introduced, allowing to perform a tentative astrometry correction due to a thermoelastic drift.

Useful Scripts

• The FitsArchive task will now write FITS files with header entries organised in categories. See the Data input-output section below for more details.

• the task convertK2Jy has been upgraded in order to take as a new input parameter a model for the source brightness distribution shape
• a new task identifyLinesCatalog has been introduced, allowing to assign spectral species and transitions to a catalogue of spectral features passed as input

• The masking of lines has been improved in the task mkRms

• the task convertK2Jy has been upgraded in order to take as a new input parameter a model for the source brightness distribution shape
• a new task identifyLinesCatalog has been introduced, allowing to assign spectral species and transitions to a catalogue of spectral features passed as input
• The documentation has been revised to ensure a consolidated and conherent set of legacy manuals

identifyLinesCatalog

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What's New for HIPE 15.x

Interested in what's new for other versions of HIPE? See this page for links to all the What's New documents from HIPE 4.0 onwards.

Highlights

Core

HIFI

PACS

SPIRE

Core system

HIPE

Plotting

TablePlotter

OverPlotter

Dataset viewer

Astronomical utilities

Numeric routines

Data fitting

Data interpolation

Random numbers

Statistics

Trend analysis

Mapping

Other functions

Source extraction

Images

Display

Analysis

Spectra

Display

Analysis

Data cubes

Display

Analysis

Herschel Science Archive

Calibration sources

Products and datasets

Observation context

Product Access Layer

Tasks

Quality control

Systematic product generation

Data input-output

Virtual Observatory

Installer

Documentation

HIFI

HIFI Software Configuration and Properties

HIFI Calibration

HIFI Pipeline

hifiPipeline task

Level 0 Pipeline

WBS Pipeline

HRS Pipeline

Level 1 Pipeline

Level 2 Pipeline

Level 2.5 Pipeline

HIFI Products

HIFI Spectrum Toolbox

Spectrum Explorer (HIFI specifics)

Spectrum tasks (HIFI specifics)

HIFI Data Processing Tools

Standing Wave Removal

Baseline Removal

Deconvolution

Spectral Cube creation

flagTool

HiClass export tool

Documentation

PACS

Pipeline

Photometry

Spectroscopy

Calibration

Photometry

Spectroscopy

Analysis tools

Photometry

Spectroscopy

Product changes

Photometry

Spectroscopy

Documentation

SPIRE

Calibration Products

Calibration Framework

Preprocessing

Engineering Conversion

Common Pipeline

Photometer Pipeline

Spectrometer Pipeline

Interactive Analysis and Tools

Documentation

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