Science Tools Working Group
The current release of the Science Tools remains v9r10.
Eric Winter has sent some news regarding the FSSC distribution of Science Tools. Their distribution is based on v9r8p2. They are getting feedback (bug reports so far related to the FSSC distributions only). The list of platforms they are supporting with binary distributions is growing:
SL 4.4 32-bit
SL 4.4 64-bit
SL 5.2 32-bit
SL 5.2 64-bit
OS X 10.4 PPC
OS X 10.4 Intel
OS X 10.5 PPC
OS X 10.5 Intel
CentOS 5.2 32-bit
Debian 5.0 32-bit
Fedora 10.0 32-bit
OpenSUSE 11.1 32-bit
Ubuntu 8.04 32-bit
Ubtuntu 8.10 32-bit
Ubuntu 8.04 64-bit
Ubtuntu 8.10 64-bit
See the Science Tools update for Feb. 10 for a link to the distribution page at the FSSC.
Data products: No new news about reprocessing.
Databases and related utilities
No news
Likelihood analysis
Jim is maintaining a kind of diary of Likelihood Usage Notes that you should pay attention to. The updates for this week relate to likelihood analysis with diffuse sources. pyLikelihood can now provide fluxes, energy fluxes, and upper limits for diffuse sources. Also, the diffuse response calculation (gtdiffrsp) is now accurate for discrete diffuse sources defined via spatial templates. The user needs to take care to make the image size commensurate with the diffuse source. These updates are in Likelihood v14r3 and pyLikelihood v1r10p1 (not yet in a release).
GRB tools
No news
Pulsar tools
No news
Observation simulation
No news
User interface and infrastructure (& utilities)
No news
Source Catalog
Last week most of the discussion was related to the generation of the 6-month source list that Jean is starting to undertake.