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New Features and Important Changes in ctools 1.0.0

Author(s) : Juergen Knoedlseder

22 February 2015


1. Introduction
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This document briefly summarizes executable by executable the most important
changes made since the last release of ctools. The code complies to GammaLib
version 1.0.0 or above.


2. Configuration
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3. Python interface
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The ctools module does no longer import automatically Python scripts. This
prevents to break the ctools interface in case that some dependencies in
the scripts are broken. Scripts (such as obsutils, analysisutils or plotutils)
are support scripts that may not be fully supported throughout the
development. They may be moved into a special contributions area in the future.


4. Support model
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5. ctobssim - CTA observation simulation
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6. ctselect - CTA event selection
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If INDEF, UNDEF, NONE or UNDEFINED are passed for the selection parameters, no
selection will be performed.


7. ctbin - CTA event binning
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8. ctlike - Maximum likelihood fitting
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9. cttsmap - Generation of Test Statistics map
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10. ctskymap - CTA sky mapping
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11. ctmodel - CTA counts cube modelling
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12. ctexpcube - CTA exposure cube generation
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13. ctpsfcube - CTA point spread function cube generation
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14. ctbkgcube - CTA background cube generation
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15. ctcubemask - CTA cube filtering
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16. ctbutterfly - Generate butterfly diagrams
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17. Examples
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18. Scripts
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The user parameter interface of cssens has been modified. The script
now reads a source model that is used for sensitivity estimation.
This provides more flexibility in the choice of the model for
sensitivity estimation.

The csobsdef script has been added that allows creation of observation
definition XML files from colon separated value ASCII files. The
observation definition files from csobsdef can be fed to ctobssim for
simulation of multiple pointings in one shot. This enables for example
survey observations to be simulated in a single ctobssim run.


19. caldb
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20. models
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