Science Tools Working Group
We met this week.
The current version of ScienceTools remains v8r0p4. v9 should be coming in the next week, before (or as) people are gearing up for obssim2 analyses. v9 will include the Proposed Tool Name Changes and the deletion of the no-longer-needed gtcntsmap. Ideally, v9 will also include some updates to the names of parameters. Dave Davis is working on uniform set of parameter names - uniform across the tools and consistent with common usage among FTOOLS. The parameter name changes would not change the functionality of the tools, of course. Chuck is aware of the need to update the workbook for this and with everything else going on that may take a bit.
Data products: No news.
Databases and related utilities
No news. For SC2 the FT1 data are available from both the GSSC data server (Tom S.) and the Astro Data Server at SLAC (Tony).
Likelihood analysis
No news other than Jim's fix for the calculation of Test Statistic values for binned likelihood analyses, which was in last week's report.
GRB tools
From David Band: "I will be working with James on adding the livetime correction in gtbin when accumulating GBM spectra from their TTE files. Also, we have been talking with Keith Arnaud about PHAII and RSPII files, and how the
PHAII spectra can be linked to RSP matrices and background files."
Pulsar tools
James reports that he and Masa "continue to refactor the application classes for the periodSearch binaries. They consolidated the code that creates the objects used to represent time values, resulting in streamlining of the code in gtpsearch."
Observation simulation
Not much news. Jim explained that the unit test of microQuasar is failing in the RM builds because it needs to be run (with gtobssim) using an FT2 file that I guess is not available. The source itself is apparently working.
User interface and infrastructure (& utilities)
No news.
Source Catalog
Did not meet this week.