What's new in HIPE 9

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See also the HIPE known issues and the Data products known issues pages for last-minute information on known problems.

Highlights

HIPE

• Common look and feel for the spectrum explorer and cube analysis toolbox
• Image analysis perspective
• Easing the data access via MyHSA
• Improvement of handling of ASCII tables
• Mechanism to notify users on removed names (tasks, functions...), why they were removed, and their replacement
• Smaller memory footprint for HIPE editor
• Speed-up of HIPE start-up
• Progress bar informs on progress of for-loops
• Human-made indexes added to the core manual (HIPE Owner's Guide, Scripting Guide, Data Analysis Guide)
• Possibility to leave comments at the bottom of any page in the HIPE Help System
• Support to OSX Lion
• Easy access to calibration data, including version and updates (TBS)
• Improvements of search capability of documentation system (TBS)
• Publication ready plots (TBS)

HIFI

• HIFI level 2.5 product introduced: for Spectral Scans it holds the deconvolved single sideband soluions; for Maps it holds the cubes; for all cases it holds a copy of the level 2 HTP.
• Addition of an interactive pipeline between level 2 and 2.5, which allows the insertion of tasks like fitHifiFringe and fitBaseline into the pipeline between level 2 and 2.5.
• Browse products for spectral scans and maps added

PACS

• Photometer: Addressing further specific cases in IPipe scripts
• Spectrometer
  • Broadband reliability
  • Improved spectral pixel flatfield broad ranges (SED)
  • Correction Flux loss due to pointing
• Convolution kernels for photometer and spectrometer maps aiding the interpretation of extended and point sources
• Reduction in memory consumption (TBS)

SPIRE

• common (both Photometer and Spectrometer)
  • improved processing speed using multi-threading
  • improved task for correction of "cooler burps"
• Photometer
  • Pipeline Processing
    • kernel-smoothed maps (aka "drizzling")
    • improved error maps (possibly as an option)
    • improved baseline correction using "destriper“
  • Interactive processing
    • source timeline fitter task
    • improvements to bolometer finder tool
    • selection of turnaround data in map creation
• Spectrometer
  • Pipeline Processing: smaller size for level 1 products
  • Improved calibration and data processing
    • updated point source calibration (improved Uranus model)
    • updated bright mode calibration (better PCAL module)
    • improved calibration for Low Resolution observations (hopefully improved calibration, but at minimum, updated advice)
    • more straightforward calling sequence for phase-correction task
    • corrected spectral averaging - more flexible usage
  • Interactive processing
    • drag and drop from SDS Explorer detector layout to variables tab
    • new and updated useful scripts for background subtraction and spectral noise

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

• Reworked the save methods on Display. You can now save to jpg, png, eps or pdf files. The methods to use are :
  • save(filename), saveAsEPS(filename), saveAsPNG(filename), saveAsJPG(filename) and saveAsPDF(filename) : These methods will save the full image, including annotations.
  • saveCurrentView(filename), saveCurrentViewAsEPS(filename), saveCurrentViewAsPNG(filename), saveCurrentViewAsJPG(filename) and saveCurrentViewAsPDF(filename) : These methods will save the current view of the image, including annotations and axes.
• The coordinate axes on the image panner are always visible now
• There is a preference for image display to turn of the echoing of commands to the command line. It is possible to turn all these commands off, or only the zoom commands.

Analysis

Spectra

Display

Analysis

• The Smooth task is corrected for a bug in the ZEROS option.
  • As a consequence of this fix, which is more mathematically correct, it is found that smoothed spectra for SPIRE are quite changed. It is recommended instead to use the REPEAT option.

Data cubes

Display

Analysis

Herschel Science Archive

• Improvements in download speed and memory requirements for data downloaded from HSA using a behind-the-scenes utility called MyHSA
  • Testing with 5 HIFI, 9 PACS and 10 SPIRE representative observations of all major observing modes simultaneously with getObservation/saveObservation and with getObs/MyHSA with the same network connection on two different machines show 20 times faster download speed and that 66% less hard disk space is needed to hold the same data:
    

Calibration sources

Products and datasets

Observation context

Product Access Layer

Tasks

• Deprecated Tasks (names and parameters) appear documented in HIPE.

Quality control

Systematic product generation

Data input-output

• Deprecation of duplicated functionalities: poolDataWriter, localStoreWriter, poolDataReader. Use getObservation and saveProduct.
• Deprecation of MyHSA prototype duplicated functionalities: loadObs and downObs. Use getObservation
• getObservation promoted to a Task (currently getObs).
• simpleAsciiTableReader deprecated, use asciiTableReader.

Virtual Observatory

Installer

Documentation

HIFI

HIFI Software Configuration and Properties

HIFI Calibration

HIFI Pipeline

hifiPipeline task

• Addition of an interactive pipeline between level 2 and 2.5, which allows the insertion of tasks like fitHifiFringe and fitBaseline into the pipeline between level 2 and 2.5.
• Inclusion in the pipeline GUI of a drop-down box to select calibration version

Level 0 Pipeline

WBS Pipeline

• Introduction of quality flag to warn about a bad zero.

HRS Pipeline

Level 1 Pipeline

• Addition of parameters in the doFilterLoads to allow configuration of the filtering.

Level 2 Pipeline

• doAvg now honours user-defined flags, RowMask.IGNORE_DATA and HifiMask.IGNORE_DATA

HIFI Products

• Level 2.5 product introduced: for Spectral Scans it holds the deconvolved single sideband soluions; for Maps it holds the cubes; for all cases it holds a copy of the level 2 HTP.
• Addition of browse products for spectral scans and maps. The spectral scan browse product is the deconvolved single sideband solution for H and V. The mapping browse product shows the map averaged spectra and the integrated map over the range of the WBS for the H- and V-polarisations.
• Point mode browse product axis labels corrected.
• Addition of a flag array to cubes, allowing pixels to be flagged in the same way as points in spectra can be.
• HTP default view is changed from SpectrumExplorer to the ContextViewer
• Observing band is added to HTP metadata

HIFI Spectrum Toolbox

Spectrum Explorer (HIFI specifics)

Spectrum tasks (HIFI specifics)

• ConvertK2Jy now uses the same scheme as doGridding to select frequency when interpolating the efficiency values from the calibration tree: the task searches first for the LO Frequency in the metadata, if it is not found the task looks in the metadata for the value inserted in HSpot. If neither are found then the middle frequency of the observing band (e.g. band 1a) is used.
• Bug fix in ConvertK2Jy: non-zero source size data on frequency scale can now be converted to Jy

HIFI Data Processing Tools

Standing Wave Removal

• Improved handling of pipeline flags in fitHifiFringe
• fitHifiFringe now accept SimpleSpectrum data

Baseline Removal

Deconvolution

• When multiple observations are passed to doDeconvolution the metadata are now concatenated and put into the decon_result
• doDeconvolution made more robust against failure when there are many bad datasets in the HTP.

Spectral Cube creation

HiClass export tool

• Sideband gain information in the metadata are now exported to CLASS.

Documentation

• Updates to DBS Cookbook
• Updates to HIFI Data Reduction Guide for changes to:
  • fitBaseline
  • fitHifiFringe

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