July 1995                                 Volume 3, No. 7


IUE DATA ANALYSIS CENTER  NEWSLETTER




This is an electronic  newsletter  edited  by the IUE Data
Analysis Center (IUEDAC)intended to inform the numerous remote
and local users of the IUEDAC software of recent 
software updates and project changes.




 
 RECENT IUEDAC STAFF CHANGES 

With the end of IUE operations a little over two 
months away, the IUE project is beginning to
look towards life after IUE science operations. 
To that end, Dr. Thomas Meylan has moved from the 
position of Technical Supervisor of the
IUEDAC to assisting IUE project management in 
the phasing out of IUE science operations. 
Dr. Michael Carini, the current IUEDAC Astronomer, 
has taken over as the Technical Lead of the IUEDAC. 
Mike will also continue to function as the IUEDAC 
Astronomer.





mtc

 
SURVEY OF DEGREES EARNED WHICH MADE USE OF IUE DATA

The response to our request for information on the number 
of degrees which have been earned with studies using IUE 
data has been fantastic. Thank you to all those who have 
already responded. If you have not yet responded, and if you
or your students have earned degrees at any level where 
your study involved the use of IUE data, we would appreciate 
you sending the following information to us. 

The name of the person earning the degree.
The degree.
The institution from which the degree was earned.
The year the degree was conferred.


We are attempting to get as exhaustive of a list as possible, 
and will be sending this message out periodically over the 
next few months.  Any help you can provide us to obtain this 
information will be greatly appreciated. You can send us this 
information by replying to the source of this email notice
(news@iuedac.gsfc.nasa.gov), by calling (301) 286-7762, or by 
sending a note to:
The IUE Project
Degree Survey
Code 684.9
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Greenbelt, MD 20771





yk/tm

 
  BEWARE OF IDL V4.0!!!!!


The IUEDAC Staff have determined that some IUEDAC 
procedures are not compatible  with IDL version 4.0. 
Apparently RSI has added and renamed some intrinsic IDL 
functions which now conflict with some IUEDAC internal
variable names (e.g., the routine WFIT uses an internal 
variable named BETA which is now also the name of an 
intrinsic IDL function.) The IUEDAC staff are correcting 
these problems as they are discovered.

rwt






rwt


 
 IUEDAC SOFTWARE AND HARDWARE UPDATES 

Recent Software Changes:



26-Jun  Updated versions of the following database
        tables have been implemented: ALIAS 
        (aliases for star names), IUECOAU (authors
        of IUE-related papers), and IUEJRNL 
        (IUE-related journal articles). The IUEJRNL 
        database (accessed via the IUEREF routine) 
        lists articles published through 1994, and 
        references specific IUE images for papers 
        published from 1978 to 1985 and 1990 to 1993.

14-Jul  A new version of IDBHELP was implemented 
        which corrects a minor problem when FLAG 
        was specified as a string.

14-Jul  New versions of WFIT and IUEBETA were 
        implemented which are compatible with 
        IDL version 4.

19-Jul  A new version of STPAR was implemented 
        which prevents a problem which can occur 
        when multiple keywords are read from a binary
        table FITS file on unix systems.






rwt


 
 IUE IMAGE PROCESSING NEWS 

 
 IUESIPS BACKLOGS 

In the last week or so, we have not been able 
to keep up with rapid influx of new data, so we 
have a backlog of about 80 images waiting to be 
processed through IUESIPS.  This is about a week's 
worth of processing.  We will try to handle 
"priority processing" images first, but if there 
are many such requests there may still be delays.  
If you have an urgent need to receive your processed 
data very quickly, please contact Cathy Imhoff 
(301-794-1470 or imhoff@iuegtc.gsfc.nasa.gov).

 
 NEWSIPS STATUS 

We have completed processing all the SWP low-dispersion 
data that we can do at this time.  A number of images 
still need updated database information before they can 
be processed.  We are working on that at this time, so
hopefully these images can be processed very soon.

In the next few weeks, we expect to receive the 
software and calibration updates that will permit 
us to process LWP low-dispersion images taken after 
1990.  Stay tuned for further updates!





cli


Editor:                Dr. Michael Carini 
Contributors:          Mr. Randy Thompson  
                       Dr. Tom Meylan
                       Ms. Suzy Crabb
                       Ms. Lyla Taylor
                       Dr. Cathy Imhoff
                       Dr. Yoji Kondo 




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