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From Eric W.: "The ScienceTools tarball distributed by the GSSC is in beta test now. We have also prepared a second tarball with the GSSC version of the ModelEditor. The latter has not been touched for many months, so I expect it will get some tweaking over the next few weeks. The GSSC-distributed tarball is now supported on 32- and 64-bit Linux, and OS X 10.4 on Intel- and PowerPC-based Macs."
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Met last week. The multi-band method that Jean and Ludovic have implemented for MRfilter have made it (currently) the best-performing source detection algorithm. The same approach will likely improve the performance of PGWave as well. UW pointfind (which inspired the mult-band approach) is not far behind and has a performance advantage in the vicinity of bright sources. Toby described the new command-line interface for pointfit. We also discussed the current state of using the Big Run backgrounds to make resampled (Pass 5) backgrounds for gtobssim simulations.