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The ground system software freeze started on March 17. My current The mission-level Freeze Plan is not accessible to most people. Neither is the presentation that Rob gave to the GLAST Project Office last week regarding the ISOC software (including by reference Science Tools). You can see the SAS-SO CCB page, which has what we are currently working to. My understanding is that for Science Tools this directly affects only the tools used by ASP and that development and releases of Science Tools can continue. The question of when and how to control the analysis tools, like the Standard Analysis Environment tools that the GSSC will support is, to my knowledge, still open. (For ASP-related tools 'freeze' means that changes in the versions of any of the code to be run in the pipeline must be approved by a SAS-SO CCB, a LAT CCB, and the mission level Change Authorization Board.)
Data products: Andrea added the orientation quaternion to the FT2 files. Jim modified makeFT2[a] and gtobssim to fill these values in the files they produce. This is not currently used by any of the science tools but has been discussed as potentially useful for users of this data product. In the next release of Science Tools,
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User interface and infrastructure (& utilities)
From Jim: "gtselect (dataSubselector v6 pending):
- allow cut on PULSE_PHASE (phasemin, phasemax) (dataSubselector v5r7)
- disabled/removed cuts that are not supported for use with downstream
tools (dataSubselector v6 pending):- longitude and latitude ranges,
- inclination (theta) and azimuth (phi) in instrument coordinates
- redesign cuts on event class and conversion type for new implementation
of event class designations in FT1 and IRFs (dataSubselector v6 pending)"
Regarding the last bullet - stay tuned for more details.
Source Catalog
Will meet tomorrow. For the most recent news, see the presentations in the Catalog + Diffuse plenary session at last week's collaboration meeting.