Science Tools Working Group
The current release version (since October 22) of the Science Tools is now v9r8p1. The driver for the update from v9r8 was the fix for gtobssim simulations using merged flight FT2 files; see below.
Data products: The proposed update to the Science Data Products File Format Document for the changes to FT2 (LS-005) has been sent to David B. for consideration for the next revision of the document.
Databases and related utilities
No news
Likelihood analysis
No news
GRB tools
No news
Pulsar tools
From Masa: "In the pulsar tool development, we fixed two JIRA issues (PULS-48 and PULS-49), and made minor improvements in error messages, prompts, Doxygen documents, and so on. The latest tagged versions as of this writing are timeSystem v6r1, pulsarDb v8r1, pulsePhase v8r1, and periodSearch v10r3. Currently we are working on the errors in their unit tests that the release manager is showing."
Observation simulation
As Jim reported last week, there was a logic error in the code introduced in observationSim v8r2 to compute livetime information for merged FT2 files. See OBS-13. This is fixed in observationSim v8r3 (in the current release of Science Tools).
John V. is looking into whether we have the most-current documentation in the Workbook for gtorbsim, and into the possibility of providing examples of the various input files to go with the documentation.
User interface and infrastructure (& utilities)
No news
Source Catalog
The Catalog group met last week (2x including a rump session on Friday); the topics were quite wide ranging, from studies of sources detected to potential associations in other astronomical catalogs.