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No news. Work is continuing on understanding the differences in results (parameter values and TS values) between binned and unbinned likelihood analyses. Jean and Jim gave presentations on this at the Catalog VRVS meeting yesterday. Florien Kraft and Vincent Le Biez are running more simulations at SLAC like those Jim has made - in fact, starting with Jim's script. In the catalog analysis of the SC1 data, Jean is finding that binned likelihood analysis produces greater TS values and less biased results for source fluxes. In the simulations of point sources on isotropic backgrounds that Jim, Florian, and Vincent have made, the TS values from binned analyses are found to depend fairly strongly on the bin size - not a big surprise. So far the latter studies are finding that the unbinned likelihood analysis (on average) gives correct results, but Jean's studies using the SC1 data (which are much more complicated - including structured diffuse emission and faint sources and soures with a variety of spectra) appaear to find that unbinned results are biased.
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I'll put it here: Jim has fixed a time precision problem with how gtmaketime defined starting and ending times when it operated on an FT1 file.
Source Catalog
Met this week; see above.