ctools 1.7 release

Overview

ctools 1.7 is a major release that adds significant functionality.

In particular, this release provides:

• csscs, a cscript for spectral component separation
• support for INTEGRAL/SPI telescope data analysis

Bug fixes

• [3156] - Adapt show_pull_histogram.py to matplotlib > 3.1.0
• Avoid negative squared standard deviations in :ref:`cssrcdetect`
• [3066] - Fix log file header repetition in some cscripts

Improvements

• [3075] - Update user manual for latest CTA IRF
• [3065] - Add Moon constraints to :ref:`csviscube`
• [2976] - Improve handling of reflected regions with exclusion regions
• [2973] - Remove response cache before source testing in :ref:`cttsmap`
• [2938] - Add support for Castro plots to :ref:`csspec`
• [2925] - Enabling running of example scripts from objects in memory
• [2881] - Add support for power-law binning to :ref:`ctbin`, :ref:`ctedispcube`, :ref:`ctexpcube`, :ref:`ctmapcube`, :ref:`ctmodel`, :ref:`ctpsfcube`, :ref:`csphagen`, :ref:`csresmap`, :ref:`csresspec`, and :ref:`csspec`
• [1889] - Allow using spectral models without Prefactor parameter in :ref:`cssens` and :ref:`cstsdist`

New features

• [2961] - Add csscs script for spectral component separation

Clean up