ctools 1.2 release (3 March 2017)

Overview

ctools 1.2 is a major release that adds significant functionality.

In particular, this release provides:

• Support for the first CTA Data Challenge

• New scripts for source detection (cssrcdetect), observation seclection (csobsselect), and model selection (csmodelselect)

Bug fixes

• [1924] - Replace has_key() by in for Python 3.x compatibility

• [1922] - cslightcrv no longer accepts counts cubes on input

• [1920] - Set ctbin reference time to CTA reference time

• [1873] - Fix energy boundary handline in cssens

• [1850] - Fix ctbin segfault bug for varying energy thresholds

• [1835] - Fix ctbin::save() bug for empty observation container

• [1835] - Fix exception when calling ctools clear() methods

• [1827] - Fix lacking coverage measure for cscripts execution

Improvements

• Change ds9file parameter to outds9file

• [1882] - Add background subtraction to ctskymap tool

• [1878] - Add startindex parameter to ctobssim

• [1871] - Add publish parameter and methods to ctobssim, ctselect, cslightcrv and csspec

• [1863] - Add outcovmat parameter to ctlike

• [1853] - Add zenith and azimuth angle information to IRF caldb

• [1846] - Introduce ctobservation and ctlikelihood base classes

• [1844] - Make csresmap enumbins parameter hidden

• [1838] - Add ctool::pars() and cscript::pars() methods

• [1832] - Add support for new spectral models in ctulimit

• [1830] - Add support modules to cscripts

• [1828] - Rename ctskymap::map() to ctskymap::skymap()

• [1819] - Set addbounds parameters by default to no

• Remove ctselect::time_reference() method

New features

• [1881] - Add csobsselect script

• [1879] - Add csmodelselect script

• [1853] - Add csviscube script

• [1617] - Add cssrcdetect script