Herschel
Space Observatory

In this issue

1. SPIRE Webinar: What's New in HIPE 13, May 19, 2015
2. Releases of HIPE 13.0 and Herschel Science Archive (HSA) 6.2
3. Conferences and workshops of interest to Herschel users

1.  SPIRE Webinar: What's New in HIPE 13, May 19th 2015, 10:00-11:30 AM PDT

This webinar covers the most important improvements in SPIRE data processing coming with the recent HIPE 13 release. After introductory presentations, there will be time for an extended question-and-answer session for any issues that participants would like to bring up.

Highlights include a new multi-pass photometer pipeline for improved deglitching and more accurate beam profiles, and for the spectrometer, significantly better spectra due to an updated linearization correction as well as a more user friendly product structure inside observation contexts, etc.

More information is available at the SPIRE news page.

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2. Herschel Data Processing Workshop for Newcomers - 16-19 June 2015

Registration is now open for the Herschel Science Center's workshop  "Herschel Data Processing for Newcomers 2015", to be held 16-19 June 2015. 

The workshop can only be attended on-line. The target audience is novice users interested in accessing and interpreting Herschel data. The workshop will include tutorials and short demos that will be broadcast live in the mornings (European time) of each day. In the afternoons, participants are encouraged to experiment with data and to relay questions to the tutors via the helpdesk or videoconferencing chat.

Registration closes on June 12. For more information, please visit:

http://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/herschel/data-processing-for-newcomers-2015

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3.  Conferences and workshops of interest to Herschel users

• Far-Infrared Community Workshop, June 2-5, 2015, Pasadena, California.
• From interstellar clouds to star-forming galaxies: Universal processes? , August 3-7, 2015, IAU Symposium 315, Honolulu, Hawaii.
• The Legacy of Planck, August 11-3, 2015, IAU General Assembly Focus Meeting #5, Honolulu, Hawaii.
• 6th Zermatt ISM Symposium - Conditions and Impact of Star Formation - From Lab to Space, September 7-11, 2015, Zermatt, Switzerland.