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New Features and Important Changes in ctools 1.5.0

16 October 2017


Introduction
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This document briefly summarizes the changes that have been made in this
ctools release with respect to the precedent release.


Configuration
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Python interface
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Support model
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ctobssim - CTA observation simulation
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Use t-type parameters for "tmin" and "tmax" to all specifying times in various
formats (#1864).


ctselect - CTA event selection
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Use t-type parameters for "tmin" and "tmax" to all specifying times in various
formats (#1864).


ctbin - CTA event binning
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ctlike - Maximum likelihood fitting
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cttsmap - Generation of Test Statistic map
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ctskymap - CTA sky mapping
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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
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Use t-type parameters for "tmin" and "tmax" to all specifying times in various
formats (#1864).

The tool now also checks which models actually overlap with the RoI of a given
observation and then only use these models to compute the model cube. The
parallelization of the tool has also been optimised so that diffuse models are
not loaded over and over again (#2189).


ctexpcube - CTA exposure cube generation
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ctpsfcube - CTA point spread function cube generation
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ctedispcube - CTA energy dispersion cube generation
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ctbkgcube - CTA background cube generation
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ctmapcube - CTA map cube generation
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ctcubemask - CTA cube filtering
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ctbutterfly - Generate butterfly diagrams
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ctulimit - Compute upper limit
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cterror - Likelihood profile error computation
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ctprob - Event probability computation
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ctphase - Event phase computation
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cscripts
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Add csmodelsois script that replaces selected models in a model container by
a diffuse map cube (#2180).

Use t-type parameters for "tmin" and "tmax" to all specifying times in various
formats (#1864).

The script csphagen was added to allow the generation of PHA, ARF and RMF datasets
for classical On/Off IACT analysis (#2208).


Examples
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caldb
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models
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