New Features and Important Changes in ctools 1.5.0 10 October 2017 Introduction ------------ This document briefly summarizes the changes that have been made in this ctools release with respect to the precedent release. Configuration ------------- None Python interface ---------------- None Support model ------------- None ctobssim - CTA observation simulation ------------------------------------- Use t-type parameters for "tmin" and "tmax" to all specifying times in various formats (#1864). ctselect - CTA event selection ------------------------------ Use t-type parameters for "tmin" and "tmax" to all specifying times in various formats (#1864). ctbin - CTA event binning ------------------------- None ctlike - Maximum likelihood fitting ----------------------------------- None cttsmap - Generation of Test Statistic map ------------------------------------------ None ctskymap - CTA sky mapping -------------------------- Header keywords informing about the dates and times covered by the observations used to generate the skymap, as well as the event energy range, are now appended as header keywords to the FITS file (#2194). ctmodel - CTA counts cube modelling ----------------------------------- Use t-type parameters for "tmin" and "tmax" to all specifying times in various formats (#1864). ctexpcube - CTA exposure cube generation ---------------------------------------- None ctpsfcube - CTA point spread function cube generation ----------------------------------------------------- None ctedispcube - CTA energy dispersion cube generation --------------------------------------------------- None ctbkgcube - CTA background cube generation ------------------------------------------ None ctmapcube - CTA map cube generation ----------------------------------- None ctcubemask - CTA cube filtering ------------------------------- None ctbutterfly - Generate butterfly diagrams ----------------------------------------- None ctulimit - Compute upper limit ------------------------------ None cterror - Likelihood profile error computation ---------------------------------------------- None ctprob - Event probability computation -------------------------------------- None ctphase - Event phase computation --------------------------------- None cscripts -------- Use t-type parameters for "tmin" and "tmax" to all specifying times in various formats (#1864). Examples -------- None caldb ----- None models ------ None