This page collects information about plans for the high-level analysis software for the Large Area Telescope.

Meetings

• June 2002 Science Tools Workshop at SLAC
• July 2003 Ground Software Workshop at SLAC
• May 2005 Catalogs and Diffuse Science Working Groups at SLAC
• August 2005 Science Tools Tutorials at LAT Collaboration Meeting at SLAC

Standard Analysis Environment

Analysis tools, utilities, and databases planned for the common analysis environment to be developed jointly with the GLAST Science Support Center

• September 2002 Review

• Current detailed definition of the Standard Analysis Environment

• Development areas

  • Databases & related utilities

  • Analysis tools

        Source detection (Wiki)

        Catalog analysis

        Pulsar analysis

        GRB analysis

  • Observation simulation (Wiki)

  • User interface

Communications

• Science Tools e-mail archive (protected)
• Science Tools in Confluence (also protected)

Science Tools Working Group

• Meeting agendas and presentations

Checkout Reviews of Science Tools

• Checkout 1 (11-29 October 2004)
• Checkout 2 (21 March - 8 April 2005)
• Checkout 3 (6-27 September 2005)

LAT Source Catalog Working Group

• Meeting agendas and presentations

LAT-SSC Working Group [not currently active]

• Membership
• Meeting agendas and minutes

Science Tools Core Development Group [now part of regular Core meeting]

• Meeting agendas and minutes

Requirements Documents

• LAT Science Analysis Software Management Plan (LAT-MD-360.1) [pdf]
• Science Analysis Software Level 3 Requirements (LAT-SS-20.6) [pdf]
• Science Analysis Software Level 4 Requirements (LAT-SS-505.1) [pdf]

• NRA?  AO response?

Presentations

• Science Tools @ PDR/Baseline Review
• Science Tools @ LAT Software Workshops

High-Level Simulations

• Instrument response functions?
• Pretty pictures from simulations

GLAST in Research Publications