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