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Reasons for Change

• Implement source alias db table for ptsrc_name entries in POINTSOURCES tableNeed to add ALIAS column to POINTSOURCES db table to support usage of standard astronomical source names.
• LAT on-board localizations are unreliable.
• Fix Bug-fix for coordinates in TS map plotting code.
• Enable Need to enable GCN Notice generation from GRB_refinement task for blind search detections.
• Move to ST v9r11 (This entails a full switch to numpy from numarray in the python scripts and hence affects almost all ASP subpackages.)

Test Procedure

Tested in dev on data in /ASP/TestSims2 and on flight data in the prod datacatalog that exhibited this issueprod database tables where possible.

Rollback Procedure

Revert to ASP v2r11p3 and ST v9r9.

CCB Jira

ssc-192@jira

Details

• ASP-61@JIRA Implement db table of aliases for ASPJ sources so that standard astronomical names can be used and multiple ASPJ entries can be reconciled.
• The GRB_refinement task uses the positions from the GCN Notices as a seed for the position refinement and selects the notice that reports the smallest error as the best seed position to use. LAT on-board notices are unreliable and have unrealistically small error radii, so they should be ignored in determining the seed position. Here are examples of error circles for the two recent bursts GRB090323002 and GRB090328401:
  Image Added
  The black cones are the GBM flight error cones, the blue cones are GBM ground, and the red are the LAT on-board error cones. The dotted cross-hairs show the XRT positions for the afterglow emission from these bursts.
• ASP v2r12
  • AspHealPix v0r0p1v0r0p2*
    • modified to use numpy
  • AspLauncher v1r3p6
  • AspPolicy v0r6p1
  • BayesianBlocks v1v1r0p1*
    • modified to use numpy
  • asp_pgwave v1r9p1
  • drpMonitoring v1r7p1
  • grbASP v4r7p6
  • v1r9p2*
    • modified to use numpy
  • drpMonitoring v1r7p2*
    • modified to use numpy
    • removed python/computeUpperLimits.py (deprecated code)
    • modified makeDrpLcTables.py to apply standard astronomical aliases to point source names.
  • grbASP v4r8*
    • modified to use numpy
    • Add code to skip selectable set of GCN Notices in GcnNotice.py, dbAccess.py and apply to FERMI_LAT_POSITION notice types in extractLatData.py
    • perform TS calculation for all GRB candidates in LatGrbSpectrum.py
    • generate GCN Notice using new template and add code to mail completed Notice to distribution list including GCN server.
    • fixed FITS image ingest to plot latitude coordinates from TS map correctly.
  • pyASP v3r6*
    • modified to use numpy
    • removed python/UpperLimits.py (use version in ST v9r11, pyLikelihood instead)
    pyASP v3r5p7