[Updated March 5 with Pulsar Tools news]
Science Tools Working Group
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- Jim's fix for the problems with convolutions in binned likelihood analysis;
- The P6_V8 IRFs that Toby has implemented with the in-flight PSF that he measured; P6_V8 also incorporates the corrected fits and representation of the PSF that has been in the works for a while, dating to Matthew Kerr's study in the fall. The P6_V8 IRFs are now more conveniently available for further evaluation in analyses;
- gtselect now allows INDEF as a response to (some) prompts, indicating that the tool should read the parameters from the DS keywords already in the header. For example, if you have retrieved an FT1 file that already has a region-of-the-sky selection but want to make some subselection with gtselect (say on time range) you do not need to enter the center and radius again;
- If you use the Release Manager builds, note that it is no longer building rh9_gcc32 versions, just rhel4_gcc34, rhel4_gcc34opt, VC8, and VC8debug versions;
- Pulsar tools have some useful updates; see below.
Data products: No news
Likelihood analysis
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GRB tools
No news
Pulsar tools
Summary of updates in v9r16p0 from Masa:
1) Introduce tolerance of 1 millisecond at boundaries of FT2 time coverage.
2) Introduce psrdbfile=NONE, with which no pulsar database file needs to be given to the pulsar tool.
3) Improve text outputs of gtephem for clarity, especially when no ephemeris is found for a given condition.
4) Improve errors and warnings in ephemeris sub-selection.
5) Fixed a bug in time computations on 64-bit machinesNo news. The Release Manager indicates that the pulsar tools now recognize FERMI as a valid mission name (in addition to GLAST), in FITS headers.
Observation simulation
No news
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