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DLB (11/26/06)--It would be useful to create and post running time benchmarks for various tools in the likelihood suite (this was suggested at the beta test). This would help users decide whether to do a binned or unbinned run. They would also be able to estimate how long their computer will be chugging away.
(Julie McEnery Nov 27)-- It would be handy to have a way to calculate an upper limit. I think that this will eventually be needed.
GRB analysis
Is the current complement of tools complete?
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DLB (11/26/06)--Treatment of unbinned counts needs to be added to gtburstfit. Jeff Scargle has the methodology, which needs to be implemented.
(Julie McEnery Nov 27)-- I think that for brighter bursts we may need to account for variations in livetime fraction on timescales shorter than 30 s, or at least convince ourselves that this does not need to be done. If we don't do this, then the peak to peak flux measurements may turn out to be incorrect and bias joint spectral fits.
Pulsar analysis
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From Masa: "In the pulsar tools area, the major works are: 1) to implement blind search tool (A4 tool), 2) to create a new tool to plot a pulse profile (w/ periodicity test results), 3) and to introduce a method that contains the full functionality of the tool, so that a software developer (or a Python script) can call it as a part of their software." \[He has updated the [current status page|http://glast.gsfc.nasa.gov/ssc/dev/psr_tools/status.html] for pulsar tools with these items, including some more details.\] |
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Question: Did anyone else try out the event display tool during DC2? It was impressive and fun to play with, but I didn't need it.
(Julie McEnery, Nov 27) It would be very nice to have tools to correctly merge event data files. This cropped up as a common need in DC2 and more recently when finishing up the 1 year gtobssim run. To start with it might be nice if gtselect could accept file lists, although I appreciate that a final solution (to correctly take care of GTI) may need to be more sophisticated.
Other issues
Delivery of science tools to the GSSC
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