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On October 25, MAST will no longer support unencrypted FTP connections, and only encrypted FTPS connections will be supported in order to improve security.
September updates to High-Level Science Products at MAST included completion of the TESS-SPOC light curve collection for TESS Sectors 1-34, totalling more that 5 million light curves, as well as quick-look previews from TESS full frame images for Sector 42 and orbit 1 for Sector 43.
We're happy to announce that our new Hubble data search form is now publicly-available! This new form brings many improvements to our original HST search form, as well as some brand new features, including real-time target look-ups, type-ahead search field suggestions, API script generation, and direct data downloads.
High-Level Science Products at MAST now include a new all-sky catalog of potential exoplanet host candidates for study by the PLATO mission, as well as quick-look images for TESS Sector 41, and the third data release from the ULLYSES team with new targets and data products.
MAST will be releasing an updated Hubble data search form in the near future, with new features and improved usability. Follow MAST on social media for more updates, and we look forward to hearing what you think!
Recent updates to High-Level Science Products include HST surveys of nearby spiral galaxy star formation regions along with computational models for classifying these star clusters, new detrended light curves from previously-released TESS Sectors, and early-access quick-look full frame images from the latest TESS Sector.
A new High-Level Science Product provides a set of TESS co-added images to make cutouts of low-surface brightness galaxies, and a Jupyter Notebook to assist with making those cutouts. Updates were also made to TICA and TESS-SPOC adding some new light curves for certain sectors and early quick look full frame images for new sectors.
A new High-Level Science Product at MAST provides a panchromatic spectrum of the nearby planet hosting M dwarf LHS 3844 from 1 Angstrom to 10 microns, including a flare event observed in FUV. Updates also included ~150k new light curves derived from TESS FFI products, new throughput files and spectral models available for software packages, and the latest early-access FFI files from TESS.
TESScut now supports moving cutouts! Give the web form or command-line any resolvable solar system object name in JPL Horizons and create cutouts of TESS full-frame images that stay centered on the object!
A new High-Level Science Product uses HST multi-band imaging reduced with a new pipeline, including sophisticated sky subtraction and PSF matching, to search for luminous galaxies and quasars at redshifts z > 7. Updates to the TICA collection also included early-access FFI data for TESS Sector 37.
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.