Science Tools Working Group
The current release of the Science Tools remains v9r11.
Data products: Reprocessing for Pass 7 is still getting into gear, now anticipated for early next week. The actual reprocessing should take only a day or so.
Databases and related utilities
No news
Likelihood analysis
Juergen has documented differences in spectral analysis results between unbinned and binned likelihood analysis for extended sources. Jim is suspecting that the issue is with gtdiffrsp for extended (but not all-sky) sources. The binned likelihood results, which do not rely on the diffuse responses, appear to be reliable.
GRB tools
No news
Pulsar tools
Masa reports that there's no news this week.
Observation simulation
No new news.
User interface and infrastructure (& utilities)
(Updated carry over from last week) In Science Tools v9r11 gtexpcube has a default parameter file that has hardwired inputs and does not prompt the user for inputs. This is in JIRA. As a workaround, Jim points out that you can run 'gtexpcube mode=q', which forces the tool to prompt for input.
Source Catalog
Last week Steve Fegan presented a comparison of methods for evaluating upper limits, Robin presented an investigation of por spectra of 6-month catalog sources and Toby presented a comprehensive, uniform set of source location, confidence region, and spectrum plots for these sources. Gulli described steps toward refining the Galactic diffuse emission model. The updates to the BSL paper was also discussed.