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Updates to the manual

March 2010 (v12.6.0 release)

·                                Plot command has been updated with a description of new multi-panel capabilities.

·                                The setplot energy and wave options now take an additional argument for modifying plot units.  This also affects the ignore/notice commands.

·                                New option “setplot redshift <z>” option.

·                                New models: ireflect (convolution) and sirf (additive).

·                                Power-law models (bkn2pow, bknpower, cutoffpl, and powerlaw) contain notices about new POW_EMIN and POW_EMAX options.

·                                Added an explanation of the POISERR vs. STAT_ERR column generation and probability distributions to the fakeit command page.

·                                New tclout nchan option.

·                                Data from Asplund et.al. added to the abund command table.

·                                Recorn model has a new paragraph explaining the use of the USE_NUMERICAL_DIFFERENTIATION setting.  It has also been changed from a mixing to a multiplicative component.

·                                Appendix C contains new section about integrating 3rd party libraries with local model builds.

·                                Kdblur, kdblur2, and rdblur have had their par1 signs clarified and/or corrected.

·                                Updated the reference for Protassov et. al. in ftest.

·                                bexrav, bexriv, pexrav, pexriv and reflect have been updated, and the cflux model has additional comments.

·                                Added pileup type to the list of component types in the model command document.

·                                Typo fix in Appendix G: All occurrences of “randomizer.dat” should be “randomize.dat”.

July 2009 (v12.5.1 release)

·                                Gain command has new source:spectrum syntax.  Gain parameters can now use newpar, freeze, thaw, untie, and error commands by prefixing the command name with the letter ‘r’.

·                                New Xspec.init numerical differentiation option mentioned in Overview and Spectral Fitting sections, and the fit and method commands.

·                                Improved the description of the critical delta and tolerance parameters in the fit, method, and error commands.

·                                Steppar now prompting for case of new minimum found, and can now operate on gain parameters.

·                                Setplot wave x-axis units option, set from Xspec.init file.

·                                Appendix F updated with new version string function.

·                                Added the delta option to the xset page.

·                                Added an example of a tclout error string.

·                                New udmget option for initpackage.

·                                New tclout sigma and tclout steppar delstat options.

·                                The goodness command now states that the default is nosim.

·                                Added par9 to kerrdisk and removed par4 from disk model.

·                                Moved previous release notes into new appendix I.

 

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