diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index bea564e..8275bff 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -2014-07-24 Juergen Knoedlseder +2014-10-06 Juergen Knoedlseder * Version 0.8.0 released ======================== @@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ Add ctpsfcube tool (generates PSF cube) Add ctbkgcube tool (generates background cube) Add ctcubemask tool (masks event bins in event cube) + Add cttsmap tool (generates TS map) Support energy dispersion in ctobssim, ctlike and ctmodel Correct ctobssim for thread safety Move obsutils to ctools namespace diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 394068e..3dd6a00 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ New Features and Important Changes in ctools 00-08-00 Author(s) : Juergen Knoedlseder -24 July 2014 +6 October 2014 1. Introduction @@ -64,8 +64,8 @@ case of binning a single event list and using the usepnt=yes option (or specifying the pointing manually as the xref and yref parameters). -7. ctlike - CTA maximum likelihood fitting ------------------------------------------- +7. ctlike - Maximum likelihood fitting +-------------------------------------- ctlike now has full access to the calibration database, allowing the use for 2D response functions in FITS files. @@ -73,13 +73,28 @@ ctlike now also supports the handling of energy dispersion. Energy dispersion can be switched on or off using the hidden edisp parameter. -8. ctskymap - CTA sky mapping +8. cttsmap - Generation of Test Statistics map +---------------------------------------------- +The cttsmap tool has been added that provides a test statistics map +for a given set of observations. This tool is not restricted to CTA +data and will work for all types of instruments. + +cttsmap will move a test sources over a specified grid of positions +and compute the likelihood difference between having the source at +a given position and having not the source. Twice the likelihood +difference is called the Test Statistic. The computation is done for +a grid of positions, and the results is saved into a FITS file as +TS map. Also the value of the fitted parameters are stored as +extension in the FITS file. + + +9. ctskymap - CTA sky mapping ----------------------------- None -9. ctmodel - CTA counts map modelling -------------------------------------- +10. ctmodel - CTA counts map modelling +-------------------------------------- ctmodel now has full access to the calibration database, allowing the use for 2D response functions in FITS files. @@ -87,7 +102,7 @@ ctmodel now also supports the handling of energy dispersion. Energy dispersion can be switched on or off using the hidden edisp parameter. -10. ctexpcube - CTA exposure cube generation +11. ctexpcube - CTA exposure cube generation -------------------------------------------- The first version of the ctexpcube tool is included in the release. ctexpcube computes the exposure cube for an observation definition @@ -95,7 +110,7 @@ file. The cube definition may be taken from a counts cube or may be specified by user parameters. -11. ctpsfcube - CTA point spread function cube generation +12. ctpsfcube - CTA point spread function cube generation --------------------------------------------------------- The first version of the ctpsfcube tool is included in the release. ctpsfcube computes the point spread function cube for an observation @@ -103,7 +118,7 @@ definition file. The cube definition may be taken from a counts cube or may be specified by user parameters. -12. ctbkgcube - CTA background cube generation +13. ctbkgcube - CTA background cube generation ---------------------------------------------- The first version of the ctbkgcube tool is included in the release. ctbkgcube computes the background cube for an observation definition @@ -111,7 +126,7 @@ file. The cube definition may be taken from a counts cube or may be specified by user parameters. -13. ctcubemask - CTA cube filtering +14. ctcubemask - CTA cube filtering ----------------------------------- The first version of the ctcubemask tool is included in the release. ctcubemask allows filtering of bins in a counts cube by setting the @@ -119,12 +134,12 @@ bin content to -1. Filtering can be done by energy, for a circular Region of Interest (ROI) or using ds9 exclusion regions. -14. Examples +15. Examples ------------ None -15. Scripts +16. Scripts ----------- Add logL and event statistics to cspull output file. @@ -144,11 +159,11 @@ The following functions have been added to obsutils: specified energy bins. -16. caldb +17. caldb --------- None -17. models +18. models ---------- None