ctools 1.7 release (17 July 2020)

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

• [3261] - Avoid negative squared standard deviations in cssrcdetect

• [3156] - Adapt show_pull_histogram.py to matplotlib > 3.1.0

• [3066] - Fix log file header repetition in some cscripts

• [2765] - Fix numerical glitch in residual computation

Improvements

• [3163] - Add Interface Manual to User documentation

• [3154] - Add On/Off analysis to ctlike reference manual

• [3075] - Update user manual for latest CTA IRF

• [3065] - Add Moon constraints to csviscube

• [2976] - Improve handling of reflected regions with exclusion regions

• [2973] - Remove response cache before source testing in cttsmap

• [2938] - Add support for Castro plots to csspec

• [2925] - Enabling running of example scripts from objects in memory

• [2881] - Add support for power-law binning to ctbin, ctedispcube, ctexpcube, ctmapcube, ctmodel, ctpsfcube, csphagen, csresmap, csresspec, and csspec

• [1889] - Allow using spectral models without Prefactor parameter in cssens and cstsdist

New features

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