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High-Level Science Products at MAST added a new HST survey of the N44 star-forming complex in the Large Magellanic cloud aiming to quantify the star formation history of the region, and some updated synthetic spectral models for use in various STScI exposure time calculators.
Additional "quick look"-calibrated TESS Full-Frame Images for Sectors 36 and 37 will be available through the TICA collection in the coming days.
The second ULLYSES Data Release (DR2) is now available! This data release includes medium- and high-resolution UV spectra and associated high-level science products (HLSPs) for 122 massive stars in the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, 13 T Tauri stars in the Ori OB1 and Sigma Ori star-forming regions, and 5 non-ULLYSES targets that were present in STIS slit observations.
A new space for MAST documentation is now publicly-available, with updates to the Portal User Guide, a new MAST Data Holdings space, and much more to come!
High-Level Science Products at MAST added a new collection of multi-band HST photometry for sources in the Triangulum galaxy, as well as a large set of new TESS light curves, and early Full-Frame Images from orbit 2 for TESS Sector 35.
The fully-revamped tool allows subscriptions to bi-weekly notifications for the latest STScI flagship (including HST, JWST, and Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope) and MAST mission publications.
The TESS Image CAlibrator (TICA) collection will release a set of "quick-look" Full Frame Images for Sector 35 before standard mission products are available. This will allow our TESS community to more rapidly begin analysis, plan follow-up observations, or search for transients and moving targets.
A new High-Level Science Product providing the TESS full-frame images used in the MIT Quick-Look Pipeline is now available, and the TESS-SPOC collection has started releasing light curves built from the TESS extended mission 10-minute cadence data.
MAST and the PHANGS-HST team are happy to announce the first release of high-level data products including multi-wavelength imaging and visualization tools for 29 spiral galaxy disks. This collection will be a multi-phase, multi-scale study of star formation across the nearby spiral galaxy population down to stellar clusters and associations, giant molecular clouds, and HII regions.
Many MAST staff will be attending the 237th meeting of the American Astronomical Society this week providing talks, demos, and opportunities to chat about MAST services and data. This is a good chance to provide feedback, get some personalized assistance, and learn more about what MAST currently offers and will offer in the future.
Updates to existing High-Level Science Products include new global maps for Uranus from the OPAL team, and some new and corrected galaxy cluster models for the RELICS collection.
With the imminent end of web browser support for the Adobe Flash Player, the MAST GalexView tool will also become unavailable. Other MAST tools remain available to provide access to GALEX data, and a new mission search form will be coming next year.
MAST has begun production of new products in the HST data calibration pipeline: Hubble Legacy Archive (HLA)-style mosaics and catalogs comprised of the data from a single HST visit, which are aligned to a common astrometric reference frame. These are the first of two types of Hubble Advanced Products (HAP) that will be produced in the HST data pipeline and made available the MAST Discovery Portal.
Two new High-Level Science Products add millions of light curves derived from TESS data for targets across the sky. Bulk downloads are available for each collection, and ingest into the MAST Portal is ongoing for both, enabling specific target searches and cross-matching with additional MAST data.
The new High-Level Science Product hosted through MAST provides an ultraviolet survey of nearby stars in order to build an invaluable library of spectral templates for future research. This first data release includes Hubble observations of 115 hot, massive, blue stars in nearby dwarf galaxies.