[cut and pasted from D. Band e-mail, 6 Feb 2005]
1. James and I worked on putting S/N time binning into
gtbin. James has a few details to clean up, but the method
is in and has been tested.
2. James and I worked on getting gtbin to read GBM data.
In its current incarnation the tool wasn't structured to handle
data that is already binned, so James has to do some
restructuring.
3. I've had more discussions with Rob about the formatting
of the GBM data files. Friday I succeeded in formatting the
continuous data.
4. Valerie visited GSFC, and we discussed the GBM simulations
for DC2. I described what I will produce and the inputs that I
need.
5. The GBM team will provide RMFIT, the IDL based burst system.
While the FTOOLs based system will allow the user to perform
basic spectral analysis, RMFIT will also be able to fit LAT and
GBM data.
6. The GBM team will provide background fits for the GBM
bursts. These will be both a simple background spectrum,
and channel-by-channel polynomial fits. Since this background
information will be provided in the GBM burst data package,
there will not be a separate FTOOL to create new backgrounds
by fitting continuous data before and after the burst; if someone
really wants to do such a fit, they can use RMFIT.
7. Jay has been working on including a pulse fitting routine in
the burst temporal analysis packaged. His routine operates on
binned data and he is after me to extend it to unbinned data.