Science Tools Working Group
We will meet tomorrow at the usual time.
As of last Friday, the current version of the Science Tools is v9r5. Toby noticed that the RM has not built all of the usual distributions - at least the Windows versions were not available as of Monday. Navid explained that the problem was lack of disk space on u09; he is working on it. Here are the differences from v9r4p2. The most important ones are probably in Event class handling in Likelihood - see below.
Data products: No news.
Databases and related utilities
No news
Likelihood analysis
Jim reports that Likelihood now uses the Event class handling scheme that he proposed. The changes are backwards compatible with existing FT1 files; new FT1 files will have the EVCLSVER keyword in the EVENTS extension header.
Jim also reports that he "modified gttsmap to use wcslib for defining the TS map coordinate system so that projections other than CAR can be given (Likelihood v13r14)."
GRB tools
No news
Pulsar tools
From Masa: "the infrastructure to accept multiple ephemeris models is almost done, yet James and I still have to go through a couple of issues that need to be resolved."
Observation simulation
Jim is not planning to tag a new version of gtobssim that will implement the new event class handling scheme until versions of Pass 5 or Pass 6 IRFs compatible with the scheme are available. This would mean having a set for each value of CTBClassLevel (1, 2, 3), rather than sets for CTBClassLevel > 0, >1, and 3.
User interface and infrastructure (& utilities)
Jim has updated gtselect to allow selections by event class and conversion type (front/back) in the new classification scheme.
Source Catalog
Met last week. Tyrel presented an update on studying the use of 'event covariance' information in localization of sources. Jean presented a more detailed investigation of the detectable sources in the obssim2 data that were missed by one or another of the source detection algorithms. Ludovic presented improved sensitivity of the MRfilter method from adding a third (lower-energy) band, which helps find soft sources that had been missed bfofre