Herschel
Space Observatory

In this issue

1. Version 13 products available in Herschel Science Archive
2. IPAC Visiting Graduate Student Fellowships 2016
3. Conferences and workshops of interest to Herschel users

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1. Version 13 products available in Herschel Science Archive

The Herschel Science Center (ESAC, Madrid, Spain) has completed bulk reprocessing of the archive with Standard Product Generation 13.0. You can access these data using HIPE or the HSA User Interface.

The highlights of the new version include:

• improved pointing reconstruction for all products
• for HIFI, electric standing wave corrections for bands 6 and 7, updated beam models and efficiencies, off-position spectra computed for every observing mode, spur-free deconvolved spectral scans, and new level 2.5 products
• for PACS, new photometric images produced with the Unimap mapmaker, new spectral cubes with evenly-sampled spectral grid, and we now provide standalone browse products also for PACS spectroscopy observations
• for SPIRE, better deglitched maps using a new multi-pass pipeline.

 

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2. IPAC Visiting Graduate Student Fellowships 

The Infrared Processing and Analysis Center (IPAC) at Caltech announces the availability of 6-month graduate student fellowships. The program is designed to allow students from U.S. or international institutions to visit IPAC-Caltech and perform astronomical research in association with an IPAC scientist. Applicants should have completed preliminary course work in their graduate program. Funding will be provided by IPAC for the 6-month period. Students are expected to be at IPAC during the duration of the Fellowship, January to July.
The call for 2016 applications is now open. Deadline: August 17, 2015. More information is available from the Fellowship Webpage.

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3. Conferences and workshops of interest to Herschel users

• 6th Zermatt ISM Symposium - Conditions and Impact of Star Formation - From Lab to Space, September 7-11, 2015, Zermatt, Switzerland.
• Exploring the Universe with JWST: 12-16 October 2015, ESA-ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands