Science Tools Working Group
The current release of the Science Tools is now v9r15p5. Here are the package differences from v9r15p4. Most of the changes relate to likelihood analysis and this is the first release that has the sourcelike package. Some specifics are given below.
Eric W. reports that at the FSSC they have been "oing some tweaking to our test procedures, and we've now incorporated the sane package in our builds so that we can compare our numerical results directly to those at SLAC."
Data products: No new news.
Databases and related utilities
No news
Likelihood analysis
Jim reports that the new UpperLimits functionality mentioned in last week's report is included in Science Tools v9r15p5. See Jim's documentation at Likelihood Usage Notes.
He also reports that the new implementation of the rate-dependent inefficiency corrections that he described in the C&A meeting yesterday, is in irfs/irfInterface v2r4p1 and the ST LATEST1.2789 build. This is not yet released. Philippe's test of the corrections for the spectral analysis of Vela look promising, removing much of the ~+/-3% flux variation (>100 MeV) over the precession period. The detailed rate-dependent inefficiency corrections can be thought of as the next order of correction beyond P6v3, which has a kind of all-sky average correction.
v9r15p5 includes the sourcelike package. I'd refer you to Josh Lande regarding use or testing of the sourcelike tools; I see that some documentation is available in Confluence.
GRB tools
No news
Pulsar tools
From Masa: "Nothing special in the pulsar tools development. Some minor improvements were made in error/warning messages. The changes were cvs-committed to the SLAC repository, but the new versions were not tagged for future release yet."
Observation simulation
No news
User interface and infrastructure (& utilities)
No news
Source Catalog
The 11-month source list and the development of the year-1 catalog continue to be the focus.
Science Tools Working Group
The current release of the Science Tools remains v9r15p4. The development news below describes changes that will be in a future release (although are in the code repository now).
Data products: No new news.
Databases and related utilities
No news
Likelihood analysis
Jim reports that he has added Steve Fegan's code for calculating upper limits to v1r17 of the pyLikelihood package. He also fixed some bugs in UpperLimits.py, including the bayesianUL(...) method. See Jim's documentation at Likelihood Usage Notes.
GRB tools
No news
Pulsar tools
From Masa: "We fixed a bug in the pulsar tools infrastructure, which has been reported by the FSSC programmers in their effort of porting Science Tools into 64-bit machines. It is (supposed to be) fixed in the late version, although Release Manager reports some minor problems, which I think I can fix soon."
Observation simulation
No news
User interface and infrastructure (& utilities)
No news
Source Catalog
The 11-month source list and the development of the year-1 catalog continue to be standard topics these days. Elizabeth pointed out some coming proposal deadlines relevant for follow-up observations.
Science Tools Working Group
The current release of the Science Tools remains v9r15p4.
The high-energy PSF issue that Toby has long championed and the recent realization by Matthew that the parametrization of the PSF is not particular accurate in general at least starting with P6v3 are motivations for a new parametrization and fit. A new parametrization will also require coding in the Science Tools. The schedule is not set.
Regarding the public distribution of the Science Tools, Chris reports that their help desk is getting 5-6 queries per day, of increasingly deeper nature. Eric W. says that installation/portability issues still come up but with various 'bleeding edge' Linux versions but they are generally able to deal with these quickly. He says that they are starting to plan the next public release.
Data products: No new news.
Databases and related utilities
No news
Likelihood analysis
No news. The sourcelike package is now being built by the Release Manager in HEAD builds (on Linux). Getting it to go in Linux was the work of Josh, with help from Jim and I think also Toby. sourcelike is a likelihood analysis tool that has been developed in particular for fitting of source extent. I've not seen documentation yet. At some point Josh et al. do plan to make sourcelike part of the internal Science Tools releases.
GRB tools
No news
Pulsar tools
Masa reports that he has been working on bug fixes and minor improvements.
Observation simulation
No news
User interface and infrastructure (& utilities)
No news
Source Catalog
The 11-month source list and the development of the year-1 catalog are standard topics these days. Toby has recently presented pointlike-derived TS maps for essentially all sources.