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               ***** ISDC-News 21-JUL-2003  *****
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INTEGRAL Data Analysis Software
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Release 2.0 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 second official release contains instrument specific
analysis software for the four INTEGRAL instruments (IBIS, SPI,
JEM-X and OMC), and some generic tools.

Changes since the last release:
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Besides various bugfixes and improvements for all instruments,
the OSA 2.0 release mainly intends to allow users to run ISGRI
spectral extraction. While it has been technically tested, some
scientific evaluation is still on-going and spectral extraction
results have to be cautiously analyzed.

More information:
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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-2.0/README

Next release:
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The next release is planned for the end of October 2003.
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