Science Tools Working Group
The current release of the Science Tools since last week has been v9r15p6. A summary of the changes since v9r15p5 is here. There's not much development news since last week. Only one new HEAD build has been made, with changes to the sourcelike package and a number of updates to pulsar tools packages (see below).
Jim notes that "Eric Winter has been proposing various minor modifications to the source code in the Likelihood, observationSim, dataSubselector, celestialSources, irfs and other packages in order to build on all of the platforms supported by the FSSC. All of the changes are minor and Eric has been contacting package owners with the proposed changes."
Data products: No new news.
Databases and related utilities
No news
Likelihood analysis
No news
GRB tools
No news
Pulsar tools
Masa reports that "the latest pulsar tools packages were promoted to release candidates (i.e., HEAD build). The major changes since the latest Science Tools (v9r15p6) are: to improve ephemeris-related output messages, to add new option psrdbfile=NONE, to give tolerance at the boundaries of FT2 coverage, and to fix the bug on long-to-double conversions on 64-bit machines."
Observation simulation
No news
User interface and infrastructure (& utilities)
No news. Given the outcoome of the validation studies presented at the C&A meeting this week, the new Pass 7.2 IRFs in the current Science Tools release probably should be considered suspect, although the problem yet may be determined to be with the Pass 7.2 reprocessing.
Source Catalog
Converging on the year-1 catalog paper remains the most pressing current topic.
Science Tools Working Group
The current release of the Science Tools is v9r15p6. A summary of the changes since v9r15p5 is here. You will notice a number of mostly-small changes that have been accumulating in HEAD builds, along with plenty of work by Jim on the IRF-handling infrastructure, including the (eventual) detailed calculation of exposures taking into account rate-dependent inefficiencies. Some of the other changes with the new release are described below.
Data products: No new news.
Databases and related utilities
No news
Likelihood analysis
From the Release Manager build information it looks like Jim has been working on SummedLikelihood in pyLikelihood
Josh Lande reports that with this release sourcelike compiles for the first time for the Linux builds in the Release Manager.
GRB tools
No news
Pulsar tools
Masa reports that there's no new news. He has prepared a technical description of the handling of timing parameters, for developers.
Observation simulation
Max Razzano has added binary modulation as an option in the Pulsar source. Luis Reyes has implemented an updated version of eblAtten - I'm not sure what is new about it. Jim has modified SimpleTransient to allow photon index -1. This release has Jim's reimplementation of GaussianSource from Josh.
User interface and infrastructure (& utilities)
See mention of IRF work at the top of the report
Source Catalog
The 11-month source list and the converging on the year-1 catalog paper remain the current topics.