INTEGRALPlanckGaiaPOLARCHEOPSEuclidATHENA
HEAVENSFACTCTALOFTSPICAJEM-EUSOXIPEeXTPTheseus
XRISMMAGBOUNDSMARTNet
ISDCCDCI
INTEGRAL Science Data Centre
_________________________________________________________________

               ***** ISDC-News 09-DEC-2003  *****
_________________________________________________________________


INTEGRAL Data Analysis Software
===============================

Release 3.0 of the Off-line Scientific Analysis (OSA) software
package is now publicly available for download at:

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

This third official release contains instrument specific
analysis software for the four INTEGRAL instruments (IBIS, SPI,
JEM-X and OMC), and some generic tools.

OSA 3.0 was successfully installed on Solaris and on various Linux
platforms, see:
http://isdc.unige.ch/Soft/download/osa/osa_sw/osa_sw-3.0/reported_platforms.html

Changes since the last release:
------------------------------
Since OSA 2.0, the software was improved in several areas and
particularly concerning systematics in the imaging results of
IBIS. The scientific validation reports describe the current
status.

A new option is the possible software installion without the ROOT
third party software.

More information:
----------------
For more information on portability, system requirements and
changes since the last release, please refer to:

  http://isdc.unige.ch/Soft/download/osa/osa_sw/osa_sw-3.0/README

Next release:
------------
The next release of OSA is planned in the first half of 2004.
_________________________________________________________________