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               ***** ISDC-News 14-APR-2003  *****
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INTEGRAL Data
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The INTEGRAL operations are running very smoothly. Open program
observations have been conducted since december 30, 2002 (revol.
26) interrupted by a long calibration campain on the Crab (revol.
39-45), many galactic plane scans, and the first galactic center
deep exposure that started on revol 46. Several TOO observations
were also conducted.

The INTEGRAL Science Data Centre will start shipping the first
INTEGRAL data sets corresponding to open program observations by
May 10th. Observers will be contacted by e-mail.
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INTEGRAL Data Analysis Software
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The first release of the INTEGRAL Data Analysis System (IDAS) is
publicly available with documentation, installation guide,
calibration (IC) files and test data from:

  http://isdc.unige.ch/index.cgi?Soft+download

This first sofware release has however several limitations listed in:
http://isdc.unige.ch/Soft/download/idas/idas_sw/idas_sw-1.0/idas_issues.txt

In particular this release concentrates on imaging analysis.
New releases of the software and calibration data will occur
regularly. The next release is planned to occur at the latest
in July 2003.
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User Support
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If you have problems installing or using that software please first
consult the list of Frequently Asked Questions at:
http://isdc.unige.ch/index.cgi?Support+faq

If you have further questions please send an E-mail to the
INTEGRAL help-desk: inthelp @ sciops.esa.int
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