Science Tools Checkout 3, September 6-27, 2005

 

Last updated:  11/09/2005 10:25:49 PM

 

Reviewers

 

Many slots are still available.  If you are willing to review one of the groups of tools listed below, please let me know.

 

General tools gtselect, map_tools tools Hirayama, Horner
Observation simulation gtobssim*, gtorbsim (ObsSim) Romeo, Stephens
Likelihood analysis gtbackfile, gtcntsmap, gtdiffresp,  gtexpmap, gtlikelihood, gtlivetimecube, gtpsf, gtsrcmaps, gttsmap, gtmodelmap (ModelEditor) Ballet, Davis, do Couto e Silva, McEnery [?], Stephens
Pulsar analysis gtbary, gtpphase, gtpsearch,gtpulsardb, gtephcomp Peachey (Windows), Stephens
GRB analysis gtbin, gtbindef, gtrspgen, gtburstfit Band (Windows), Bonnell, Longo

* GRBobsmanager and PulsarSpectrum have been updated extensively.

In addition, Tom Stephens and Gino Tosti are systematically trying out Windows versions of the tools.

See also the Science Tools pages in Confluence (in particular News for Checkout 3), and the GLAST Science Tools issues in JIRA.

Version of ScienceTools for Checkout 3

v6r0p5 (see Release Manager results)

See the user workbook for installation instructions and user guides for Science Tools.

Sky Model

A detailed description of the components of the sky model for checkout 3 is available.  Note that the simulated data are made available for your convenience; there are no science goals per se for checkout 3, and you are encouraged to generate additional data as needed for your work with the tools.

Data access

Simulated LAT and GBM data are available from the server at GSSC.  See the checkout 3 data access page at the GSSC [November 9, 2005:  The checkout 3 data are available again].  Tom Stephens notes that the simplest way to get the entire LAT data set (if you want ~800 Mbyte of files) is to enter START,END in the time field.  This will provide you with a page that has links to 8 files each containing ~1 week's worth of data. There is no file that contains the entire data set.