0.4 (Apr 20, 2016)#

Summary#

  • Released Apr 20, 2016

  • 10 contributors (5 new)

  • 8 months of work

  • 108 pull requests (not all listed below)

  • Requires Python 2.7 or 3.4+, Numpy 1.8+, Scipy 0.15+, Astropy 1.0+, Sherpa 4.8+

What’s new?#

  • Women are hacking on Gammapy!

  • IACT data access via DataStore and HDU index tables

  • Radially-symmetric background modeling

  • Improved 2-dim image analysis

  • 1-dim spectral analysis

  • Add sub-package gammapy.cube and start working on 3-dim cube analysis

  • Continuous integration testing for Windows on Appveyor added (Windows support for Gammapy is preliminary and incomplete)

Contributors#

  • Axel Donath

  • Brigitta Sipocz (new)

  • Christoph Deil

  • Dirk Lennarz (new)

  • Johannes King

  • Jonathan Harris

  • Léa Jouvin (new)

  • Luigi Tibaldo (new)

  • Manuel Paz Arribas

  • Olga Vorokh (new)

Pull requests#

This list is incomplete. Small improvements and bug fixes are not listed here.

See the complete Gammapy 0.4 merged pull requests list on GitHub.

  • [#518] Fixes and cleanup for SkyMap (Axel Donath)

  • [#511] Add exposure image computation (Léa Jouvin)

  • [#510] Add acceptance curve smoothing method (Léa Jouvin)

  • [#507] Add Fermi catalog spectrum evaluation and plotting (Johannes King)

  • [#506] Improve TS map computation performance (Axel Donath)

  • [#503] Add FOV background image modeling (Léa Jouvin)

  • [#502] Add DataStore subset method (Johannes King)

  • [#487] Add SkyMap class (Axel Donath)

  • [#485] Add OffDataBackgroundMaker (Léa Jouvin)

  • [#484] Add Sherpa cube analysis prototype (Axel Donath)

  • [#481] Add new gammapy.cube sub-package (Axel Donath)

  • [#478] Add observation stacking method for spectra (Léa Jouvin and Johannes King)

  • [#475] Add tests for TS map image computation (Olga Vorokh)

  • [#474] Improve significance image analysis (Axel Donath)

  • [#473] Improve tests for HESS data (Johannes King)

  • [#462] Misc cleanup (Christoph Deil)

  • [#461] Pacman (Léa Jouvin)

  • [#459] Add radially symmetric FOV background model (Léa Jouvin)

  • [#457] Improve data and observation handling (Christoph Deil)

  • [#456] Fix and improvements to TS map tool (Olga Vorokh)

  • [#455] Improve IRF interpolation and extrapolation (Christoph Deil)

  • [#447] Add King profile PSF class (Christoph Deil)

  • [#436] Restructure spectrum package and command line tool (Johannes King)

  • [#435] Add info about Gammapy contact points and gammapy-extra (Christoph Deil)

  • [#421] Add spectrum fit serialisation code (Johannes King)

  • [#403] Improve spectrum analysis (Johannes King)

  • [#415] Add EventList plots (Jonathan Harris)

  • [#414] Add Windows tests on Appveyor (Christoph Deil)

  • [#398] Add function to compute exposure cubes (Luigi Tibaldo)

  • [#396] Rewrite spectrum analysis (Johannes King)

  • [#395] Fix misc issues with IRF classes (Johannes King)

  • [#394] Move some data specs to gamma-astro-data-formats (Christoph Deil)

  • [#392] Use external ci-helpers (Brigitta Sipocz)

  • [#387] Improve Gammapy catalog query and browser (Christoph Deil)

  • [#383] Add EnergyOffsetArray (Léa Jouvin)

  • [#379] Add gammapy.region and reflected region computation (Johannes King)

  • [#375] Misc cleanup of scripts and docs (Christoph Deil)

  • [#371] Improve catalog utils (Christoph Deil)

  • [#369] Improve the data management toolbox (Christoph Deil)

  • [#367] Add Feldman Cousins algorithm (Dirk Lennarz)

  • [#364] Improve catalog classes and gammapy-extra data handling (Jonathan Harris, Christoph Deil)

  • [#361] Add gammapy-spectrum-pipe (Johannes King)

  • [#359] Add 1D spectrum analysis tool based on gammapy.hspec (Johannes King)

  • [#353] Add some scripts and examples (Christoph Deil)

  • [#352] Add data management tools (Christoph Deil)

  • [#351] Rewrite EnergyDispersion class (Johannes King)

  • [#348] Misc code cleanup (Christoph Deil)

  • [#347] Add background cube model comparison plot script (Manuel Paz Arribas)

  • [#342] Add gammapy-bin-image test (Christoph Deil)

  • [#339] Remove PoissonLikelihoodFitter (Christoph Deil)

  • [#338] Add example script for cube background models (Manuel Paz Arribas)

  • [#337] Fix sherpa morphology fitting script (Axel Donath)

  • [#335] Improve background model simulation (Manuel Paz Arribas)

  • [#332] Fix TS map boundary handling (Axel Donath)

  • [#330] Add EnergyDispersion and CountsSpectrum (Johannes King)

  • [#319] Make background cube models (Manuel Paz Arribas)

  • [#290] Improve energy handling (Johannes King)