Science Tools Working Group
The current release version of the Science Tools remains v9r7p1 - 2+ months of stability. In the current release candidate (HEAD1.690) a number of updates for Likelihood and the pulsar tools (see below) are pending; see this summary from the Release Manager.
Data products: The planned additions to FT2 contents are posted are closer to implementation; Andrea is working on modifications to ft2util and will produce some test files using a new ft2.tpl file. The revised format will be submitted as a change to the File Format Document for the LAT science data products
Databases and related utilities
No news.
Likelihood analysis
No news
GRB tools
No news
Pulsar tools
From Masa: "In the pulsar tool development, we added a geocentric option to gtbary. Two JIRA issues (PULS-46
and 47) were fixed. Some tools add leapsecfile parameter (hidden) to specify a leap second file, just in case a user want it other than a system default. As a result, all the pulsar tools change their version numbers. The latest versions as of this writing is timeSystem v6, pulsarDb v8, pulsePhase v8, and periodSearch v10r2p1." [N.B. These updates are not yet in a release version of Science Tools]
Observation simulation
No news
User interface and infrastructure (& utilities)
No news
Source Catalog
Last week's discussion included a comparison of pointlike and gtlike results for the August source list. Juergen also described his use of gtlike to obtain model-independent spectra. Benoit showed a very interesting sensitivity map for August. Will not meet this week.