Science Tools Working Group
Did not this week. We will meet next week, on Nov. 1. The U.S. will be back on Standard Time, but as far as I can tell so will Europe.
The version of ScienceTools remains v7r5. Navid has made DC2-like distribution packages of v7r5 for all of the platforms except MacOS. The motivation for this was the GUC test mentioned last week. Navid has posted them on DC2 code releases; as these don't have anything in particular to do with DC2, eventually this probably should live in the Science Tools space.
Data products: No news.
Databases and related utilities
No news.
Likelihood analysis
No news. Analia will give a presentation at next week's Science Tools meeting on her Python script that makes TS contour maps. As far as I know the script is not yet in the CVS repository at SLAC.
GRB tools
No news.
Pulsar tools
From James: "James and Masa continued work on the A4 tool. This week they succeeded in getting the test code to perform FFTs of the test data sets with reasonable looking results." A4 is the tool for blind searches for periodicity.
Observation simulation
No news. The Service Challenges have a working group on sky simulation - that does not have a mailing list or Confluence page yet. The coordinators are Nicola and Alice Harding. For the first SC run - next week - only currently-existing source types will be used.
User interface and infrastructure
James reports that he is learning from Larry Brown, who I infer is leaving HEASARC and who you might recognize as the author of fv, how he has figured out how to build the Science Tools in HEASARC's hmake system. This is how the GSSC will distribute the tools to guest investigators.
Source Catalog
Did not meet this week and will not meet until Nov. 8.