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Masa has noticed a bug in gtbary in the new release; see the details in his posting PULS-49. Under certain circumstances, gtbary ignores (and does not report) errors in computing geocentric and barycentric times. The outputs are correct if the inputs are correct, but if you run gtbary as a standalone tool you don't get any warnings if you come up against this bug.

Wiki MarkupMasa reports that this does not affect any of the other pulsar tools. The current workaround for *gtbary* is to continue to use the v9r7p1 version \ [or live dangerously].

Observation simulation

Reminder: Jim has updated gtobssim to allow it to process merged flight FT2 files. This is a great convenience for simulating as-flown pointing and livetime histories; formerly the gaps between the runs required simulations to be made run-by-run and then merged. See the Science Tools Update for October 14.

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