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The released weight maps for the SOFI observations have been found to be corrupted (03/07/01). We are taking the necessary action to solve the problem. The corrected image packages will be realesed soon. We apologize the users for this inconvenience.
After the data release, A. Cimatti, E. Giallongo, E. Daddi, P.Saracco, C. Lidman and P.Rosati have reported to the EIS Team that a systematic offset was present at faint magnitudes between the released Infrared data and their independent photometry in the Chandra Deep Field South. Their warning has prompted a though check of the procedure and a typo was indeed found in the reduction program. This has now been corrected, the reductions and the generation of all other survey products are under way and a new release will follow soon. Stay Tuned.

DPS_2.0 (07 Mar 2001):

From: Remco Slijkhuis
Subject: Splitting of released images

About the splitting of our released images:
I don't think fitssplit is the right tool to do this. It looks like it was just quickly thrown together by Erik. Adding the EXTNAME keyword into the second header of our released images (brought to my attention by Mischa) did work a bit better when using fitssplit, but it then failed because of some HIERARCH keyword missing... Cfitsio's functions, however, are able to deal with our images, and I have created a very basic python script that can split a fits file with an arbitrary number of extensions:

/eis4-home/rslijkhu/Development/splitFits.py

Just make sure the PYTHONPATH environment variable contains the directory where pcfitsio is installed; so, for the EIS machines:

setenv PYTHONPATH /eis/python/Python-1.5.2b2:/eis/python/Python-1.5.2b2/scripts:/eis/python/Python-1.5.2b2/pcfitsio

Cheers,
Remco

DPS_1.1 (09 May 2001):

After the data release, A. Cimatti, E. Giallongo, E. Daddi, P.Saracco, C. Lidman and P.Rosati have reported to the EIS Team that a systematic offset was present at faint magnitudes between the released Infrared data and their independent photometry in the Chandra Deep Field South. Their warning has prompted a through check of the procedure and a typo was indeed found in the reduction program.

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