Changelog

This is the changelog for Gammapy. For now we use a one-line description of every pull request, roughly in chronological order.

We don’t list every pull request. Maintenance and cleanup changes (e.g. to update astropy-helpers or fix the docs build) are not of interest to users and are not listed here.

A complete list of Gammapy contributors is at http://gammapy.org/team.html .

0.8 (unreleased)

Summary

For plans and progress for Gammapy 0.8, see https://github.com/gammapy/gammapy/milestones/0.8

0.7 (2018-02-28)

Summary

• Released on Feb 28, 2018 (Gammapy 0.7 on PyPI)
• 24 contributors (15 new)
• 10 months of work (from April 28, 2017 to Feb 28, 2018)
• 178 pull requests (not all listed below)

What’s new?

Installation:

• Gammapy 0.7 supports legacy Python 2.7, as well as Python 3.5 and 3.6. If you are still using Python 2.7 with Gammapy, please update to Python 3. Let us know if you need any help with the update, or are blocked from updating for some reason, by filling out the 1-minute Gammapy installation questionnaire form. This will help us make a plan how to finish the Python 2 -> 3 transition and to set a timeline (PIG 3).
• The Gammapy conda packages are now distributed via the conda-forge channel, i.e. to install or update Gammapy use the command conda install gammapy -c conda-forge. Most other packages have also moved to conda-forge in the past years, the previously used astropy and openastronomy channels are no longer needed.
• We now have a conda environment.yml file that contains all packages used in the tutorials. See instructions here: Gammapy tutorial notebooks.

Documentation:

• We have created a separate project webpage at http://gammapy.org . The http://docs.gammapy.org page is not just for the Gammapy documentation.
• A lot of new tutorials were added in the form of Jupyter notebooks. To make the content of the notebooks easier to navigate and search, a rendered static version of the notebooks was integrated in the Sphinx-based documentation (the one you are looking at) at Gammapy tutorial notebooks.
• Most of the Gammapy tutorials can be executed directly in the browser via the https://mybinder.org/ service. There is a “launch in binder” link at the top of each tutorial in the docs, see e.g. here: CTA data analysis with Gammapy
• A page was created to collect the information for CTA members how to get started with Gammapy and with contact / support channels: http://gammapy.org/cta.html
• The first public FITS test data release from H.E.S.S. is in the collaboration review phase, we expect it to become available in March and update many of the Gammapy tutorials to use this nice example dataset (in addition to the simulated CTA first data challenge dataset and the Fermi-LAT dataset matching the 3FHL catalog we are using already).

Gammapy Python package:

• This release contains many bug fixes and improvements to the existing code, ranging from IRF interpolation to spectrum and lightcurve computation. Most of the improvements (see the list of pull requests below) were driven by user reports and feedback from CTA, HESS, MAGIC and Fermi-LAT analysis. Please update to the new version and keep filing bug reports and feature requests!
• A new sub-package gammapy.maps was added that features WCS and HEALPix based maps, arbitrary extra axes in addition to the two spatial dimensions (e.g. energy, time or event type). Support for multi-resolution and sparse maps is work in progress. These new maps classes were implemented based on the experience gained from the existing SkyImage and SkyCube classes as well as the Fermi science tools, Fermipy and pointlike. Work on new analysis code based on gammapy.maps within Gammapy is starting now (see PIG 2). Users are encouraged to start using gammapy.maps in their scripts. The plan is to keep the existing SkyImage and SkyCube and image / cube analysis code that we have now mostly unchanged (only apply bugfixes), and to remove them at some future date after the transition to the use of gammapy.maps within Gammapy (including all tests and documentation and tutorials) is complete and users had some time to update their code. If you have any questions or need help with gammapy.maps or find an issue or missing feature, let us know!

Command line interface:

• The Gammapy command-line interface was changed to use a single command gammapy multiple sub-commands (like gammapy info or gammapy image bin). Discussions on developing the high-level interface for Gammapy (e.g. as a set of command line tools, or a config file driven analysis) are starting now. See Command line tools (gammapy.scripts).

Organisation:

• A webpage at http://gammapy.org/ was set up, separate from the Gammapy documentation page http://docs.gammapy.org/ .
• The Gammapy project and team organisation was set up with clear roles and responsibilities, in a way to help the Gammapy project grow, and to support astronomers and projects like CTA using Gammapy better. This is described at http://gammapy.org/team.html .
• To improve the quality of Gammapy, we have set up a proposal-driven process for major improvements for Gammapy, described in PIG 1 - PIG purpose and guidelines. We are now starting to use this to design a better low-level analysis code (PIG 2) and to define a plan to finish the Python 2-> 3 transition (PIG 3).

Contributors:

• Anne Lemière (new)
• Arjun Voruganti
• Atreyee Sinha (new)
• Axel Donath
• Brigitta Sipocz
• Bruno Khelifi (new)
• Christoph Deil
• Cosimo Nigro (new)
• Jean-Philippe Lenain (new)
• Johannes King
• José Enrique Ruiz (new)
• Julien Lefaucheur
• Kai Brügge (new)
• Lab Saha (new)
• Lars Mohrmann
• Léa Jouvin
• Matthew Wood
• Matthias Wegen (new)
• Oscar Blanch (new)
• Peter Deiml (new)
• Roberta Zanin (new)
• Thomas Vuillaume (new)
• Rubén López-Coto (new)
• Yves Gallant (new)

Pull requests

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

See the complete Gammapy 0.7 merged pull requests list on Github.

• [#1319] Fix a bug in SpectrumStacker (Anne Lemière)
• [#1318] Improve MapCoord interface (Matthew Wood)
• [#1316] Add flux point estimation for multiple observations (Lars Mohrmann)
• [#1312] Add Background 2D class (Léa Jouvin)
• [#1305] Fix exposure and flux units in IACTBasicImageEstimator (Yves Gallant)
• [#1300] Add PhaseCurve class for periodic systems (Lab Saha)
• [#1294] Fix IACTBasicImageEstimator psf method (Yves Gallant)
• [#1290] Change image_pipe and fov to include a minimum offset cut (Atreyee Sinha)
• [#1289] Fix excess for given significance computation (Oscar Blanch)
• [#1287] Fix time in LightCurveEstimator result table (Jean-Philippe Lenain)
• [#1266] No pytest import from non-test code (Christoph Deil)
• [#1268] Fix PSF3D.to_energy_dependent_table_psf (Christoph Deil)
• [#1246] Improve map read method (Matthew Wood)
• [#1240] Finish change to Click in gammapy.scripts (Christoph Deil)
• [#1238] Clean up catalog image code (Axel Donath)
• [#1235] Introduce main gammapy command line tool (Axel Donath and Christoph Deil)
• [#1227] Remove gammapy-data-show and gammapy-cube-bin (Christoph Deil)
• [#1226] Make DataStoreObservation properties less lazy (Christoph Deil)
• [#1220] Fix flux point computation for non-power-law models (Axel Donath)
• [#1215] Finish integration of Jupyter notebooks with Sphinx docs (Jose Enrique Ruiz)
• [#1211] Add IRF write methods (Thomas Armstrong)
• [#1210] Fix min energy handling in SpectrumEnergyGrouper (Julien Lefaucheur and Christoph Deil)
• [#1207] Add theta2 distribution plot to EventList class (Thomas Vuillaume)
• [#1204] Consistently use mode=’constant’ in convolutions of RingBackgroundEstimator (Lars Mohrmann)
• [#1195] Change IRF extrapolation behaviour (Christoph Deil)
• [#1190] Refactor gammapy.maps methods for calculating index and coordinate arrays (Matthew Wood)
• [#1183] Add function to compute background cube (Roberta Zanin and Christoph Deil)
• [#1179] Fix two bugs in LightCurveEstimator, and improve speed considerably (Lars Mohrmann)
• [#1176] Integrate tutorial notebooks in Sphinx documentation (Jose Enrique Ruiz)
• [#1170] Add sparse map prototype (Matthew Wood)
• [#1169] Remove old HEALPix image and cube classes (Christoph Deil)
• [#1166] Fix ring background estimation (Axel Donath)
• [#1162] Add gammapy.irf.Background3D (Roberta Zanin and Christoph Deil)
• [#1150] Fix PSF evaluate error at low energy and high offset (Bruno Khelifi)
• [#1134] Add MAGIC Crab reference spectrum (Cosimo Nigro)
• [#1133] Fix energy_resolution method in EnergyDispersion class (Lars Mohrmann)
• [#1127] Fix 3FHL spectral indexes for PowerLaw model (Julien Lefaucheur)
• [#1115] Fix energy bias computation (Cosimo Nigro)
• [#1110] Remove ATNF catalog class and Green catalog load function (Christoph Deil)
• [#1108] Add HAWC 2HWC catalog (Peter Deiml)
• [#1107] Rewrite GaussianBand2D model (Axel Donath)
• [#1105] Emit warning when HDU loading from index is ambiguous (Lars Mohrmann)
• [#1104] Change conda install instructions to conda-forge channel (Christoph Deil)
• [#1103] Remove catalog and data browser Flask web apps (Christoph Deil)
• [#1102] Add 3FGL spatial models (Axel Donath)
• [#1100] Add energy reference for exposure map (Léa Jouvin)
• [#1098] Improve flux point fitter (Axel Donath)
• [#1093] Implement I/O methods for gammapy.maps (Matthew Wood)
• [#1092] Add random seed argument for CTA simulations (Julien Lefaucheur)
• [#1090] Add default parameters for spectral models (Axel Donath)
• [#1089] Fix Fermi-LAT catalog flux points property (Axel Donath)
• [#1088] Update Gammapy to match Astropy region changes (Johannes King)
• [#1087] Add peak energy property to some spectral models (Axel Donath)
• [#1085] Update astropy-helpers to v2.0 (Brigitta Sipocz)
• [#1084] Add flux points upper limit estimation (Axel Donath)
• [#1083] Add JSON-serialisable source catalog object dict (Arjun Voruganti)
• [#1082] Add observation sanity check method to DataStore (Lars Mohrmann)
• [#1078] Add printout for 3FHL and gamma-cat sources (Arjun Voruganti)
• [#1076] Development in gammapy.maps (Matthew Wood)
• [#1073] Fix spectrum fit for case of no EDISP (Johannes King)
• [#1070] Add Lomb-Scargle detection function (Matthias Wegen)
• [#1069] Add easy access to parameter errors (Johannes King)
• [#1067] Add flux upper limit computation to TSImageEstimator (Axel Donath)
• [#1065] Add skip_missing option to DataStore.obs_list (Johannes King)
• [#1057] Use system pytest rather than astropy (Brigitta Sipocz)
• [#1054] Development in gammapy.maps (Matthew Wood)
• [#1053] Add sensitivity computation (Bruno Khelifi)
• [#1051] Improve 3D simulation / analysis example (Roberta Zanin)
• [#1045] Fix energy dispersion apply and to_sherpa (Johannes King)
• [#1043] Make gammapy.spectrum.powerlaw private (Christoph Deil)
• [#1040] Add combined 3D model and simple npred function (Christoph Deil)
• [#1038] Remove gammapy.utils.mpl_style (Christoph Deil)
• [#1136] Improve CTA sensitivity estimator (Axel Donath and Kai Brügge)
• [#1035] Some cleanup of FluxPoints code and tests (Christoph Deil)
• [#1032] Improve table unit standardisation and flux points (Christoph Deil)
• [#1031] Add HGPS catalog spatial models (Axel Donath)
• [#1029] Add 3D model simulation example (Roberta Zanin)
• [#1027] Add gamma-cat resource and resource index classes (Christoph Deil)
• [#1026] Fix Fermi catalog flux points upper limits (Axel Donath)
• [#1025] Remove spectrum butterfly class (Christoph Deil)
• [#1021] Fix spiralarm=False case in make_base_catalog_galactic (Ruben Lopez-Coto)
• [#1014] Introduce TSImageEstimator class (Axel Donath)
• [#1013] Add Fermi-LAT 3FHL spatial models (Axel Donath)
• [#845] Add background model component to SpectrumFit (Johannes King)
• [#111] Include module-level variables in API docs (Christoph Deil)

0.6 (April 28, 2017)

Summary

• Released on April 28, 2017 (Gammapy 0.6 on PyPI)
• 14 contributors (5 new)
• 5 months of work (from November 22, 2016 to April 28, 2017)
• 147 pull requests (not all listed below)

What’s new?

• Release and installation

  • Until now, we had a roughly bi-yearly release cycle for Gammapy. Starting now, we will make stable releases more often, to ship features and fixes to Gammapy users more quickly.
  • Gammapy 0.6 requires Python 2.7 or 3.4+, Numpy 1.8+, Scipy 0.15+, Astropy 1.3+, Sherpa 4.9.0+ . Most things will still work with older Astropy and Sherpa, but we dropped testing for older versions from our continuous integration.
  • Gammapy is now available via Macports, a package manager for Mac OS (port install py35-gammapy)

• Documentation

  • Added many tutorials as Jupyter notebooks (linked to from the docs front-page)
  • Misc docs improvements and new getting started notebooks

• For CTA

  • Better support for CTA IRFs
  • A notebook showing how to analyse some simulated CTA data (preliminary files from first data challenge)
  • Better support and documentation for CTA will be the focus of the next release (0.7).

• For Fermi-LAT

  • Introduced a reference dataset: https://github.com/gammapy/gammapy-fermi-lat-data
  • Added convenience class to work with Fermi-LAT datasets

• gammapy.catalog

  • Add support for gamma-cat, an open data collection and source catalog for gamma-ray astronomy (https://github.com/gammapy/gamma-cat)
  • Access to more Fermi-LAT catalogs (1FHL, 2FHL, 3FHL)

• gammapy.spectrum

  • Better flux point class
  • Add flux point SED fitter
  • EBL-absorbed spectral models
  • Improved spectrum simulation class

• gammapy.image

  • Add image radial and box profiles
  • Add adaptive ring background estimation
  • Add adaptive image smooth algorithm

• gammapy.cube

  • Add prototype for 3D analysis of IACT data (work in progress)

• gammapy.time

  • Add prototype lightcurve estimator for IACT data (work in progress)

• gammapy.irf

  • Many IRF classes now rewritten to use the generic NDDataArray and axis classes
  • Better handling of energy dispersion

• gammapy.utils

  • Add gammapy.utils.modeling (work in progress)
  • Add gammapy.utils.sherpa (generic interface to sherpa for fitting, with models and likelihood function defined in Gammapy) (work in progress)

• Many small bugfixes and improvements throughout the codebase and documentation

Contributors:

• Arjun Voruganti (new)
• Arpit Gogia (new)
• Axel Donath
• Brigitta Sipocz
• Bruno Khelifi (new)
• Christoph Deil
• Dirk Lennarz
• Fabio Acero (new)
• Johannes King
• Julien Lefaucheur
• Lars Mohrmann (new)
• Léa Jouvin
• Nachiketa Chakraborty
• Régis Terrier
• Zé Vinícius (new)

Pull requests

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

See the complete Gammapy 0.6 merged pull requests list on Github.

• [#1006] Add possibilty to skip runs based on alpha in SpectrumExtraction (Johannes King)
• [#1002] Containment correction in SpectrumObservation via AREASCAL (Johannes King)
• [#1001] Add SpectrumAnalysisIACT (Johannes King)
• [#997] Add compute_chisq method to lightcurve class (Nachiketa Chakraborty)
• [#994] Improve Gammapy installation docs (Christoph Deil)
• [#988] Add spectral model absorbed by EBL that can be fit (Julien Lefaucheur)
• [#985] Improve error methods on spectral models (Axel Donath)
• [#979] Add flux point fitter class (Axel Donath)
• [#976] Fixes to Galactic population simulation (Christoph Deil)
• [#975] Add PLSuperExpCutoff3FGL spectral model (Axel Donath)
• [#966] Remove SkyMask (merge with SkyImage) (Christoph Deil)
• [#950] Add light curve computation (Julien Lefaucheur)
• [#933] Change IRF plotting from imshow to pcolormesh (Axel Donath)
• [#932] Change NDDataArray default_interp_kwargs to extrapolate (Johannes King)
• [#919] Fix Double plot issue in notebooks and improve events.peek() (Fabio Acero)
• [#911] Improve EnergyDispersion2D get_response and tests (Régis Terrier)
• [#906] Fix catalog getitem to work with numpy int index (Zé Vinícius)
• [#898] Add printout for 3FGL catalog objects (Arjun Voruganti)
• [#893] Add Fermi-LAT 3FGL catalog object lightcurve property (Arpit Gogia)
• [#888] Improve CTA IRF and simulation classes (point-like analysis) (Julien Lefaucheur)
• [#885] Improve spectral model uncertainty handling (Axel Donath)
• [#884] Improve BinnedDataAxis handling of lo / hi binning (Johannes King)
• [#883] Improve spectrum docs page (Johannes King)
• [#881] Add support for observations with different energy binning in SpectrumFit (Lars Mohrmann)
• [#875] Add CTA spectrum simulation example (Julien Lefaucheur)
• [#872] Add SED type e2dnde to FluxPoints (Johannes King)
• [#871] Add Parameter class to SpectralModel (Johannes King)
• [#870] Clean up docstrings in background sub-package (Arpit Gogia)
• [#868] Add Fermi-LAT 3FHL catalogue (Julien Lefaucheur)
• [#865] Add Fermi basic image estimator (Axel Donath)
• [#864] Improve edisp.apply to support different true energy axes (Johannes King)
• [#859] Remove old image_profile function (Axel Donath)
• [#858] Fix Fermi catalog flux point upper limits (Axel Donath)
• [#855] Add Fermi-LAT 1FHL catalogue (Julien Lefaucheur)
• [#854] Add Fermi-LAT dataset class (Axel Donath)
• [#851] Write Macports install docs (Christoph Deil)
• [#847] Fix Sherpa spectrum OGIP file issue (Régis Terrier and Johannes King)
• [#842] Add AbsorbedSpectralModel and improve CTA IRF class (Julien Lefaucheur)
• [#840] Fix energy binning issue in cube pipe (Léa Jouvin)
• [#837] Fix containment fraction issue for table PSF (Léa Jouvin)
• [#836] Fix spectrum observation write issue (Léa Jouvin)
• [#835] Add image profile estimator class (Axel Donath)
• [#834] Bump to require Astropy v1.3 (Christoph Deil)
• [#833] Add image profile class (Axel Donath)
• [#832] Improve NDDataArray (use composition, not inheritance) (Johannes King)
• [#831] Add CTA Sensitivity class and plot improvements (Julien Lefaucheur)
• [#830] Add gammapy.utils.modeling and GammaCat to XML (Christoph Deil)
• [#827] Add energy dispersion for 3D spectral analysis (Léa Jouvin)
• [#826] Add sky cube computation for IACT data (Léa Jouvin)
• [#825] Update astropy-helpers to v1.3 (Brigitta Sipocz)
• [#824] Add XSPEC table absorption model to spectral table model (Julien Lefaucheur)
• [#820] Add morphology models for gamma-cat sources (Axel Donath)
• [#816] Add class to access CTA point-like responses (Julien Lefaucheur)
• [#814] Remove old flux point classes (Axel Donath)
• [#813] Improve Feldman Cousins code (Dirk Lennarz)
• [#812] Improve differential flux point computation code (Axel Donath)
• [#811] Adapt catalogs to new flux point class (Axel Donath)
• [#810] Add new flux point class (Axel Donath)
• [#798] Add Fvar variability measure for light curves (Nachiketa Chakraborty)
• [#796] Improve LogEnergyAxis object (Axel Donath)
• [#797] Improve WStat implementation (Johannes King)
• [#793] Add GammaCat source catalog (Axel Donath)
• [#791] Misc fixes to spectrum fitting code (Johannes King)
• [#784] Improve SkyCube exposure computation (Léa Jouvin)

0.5 (November 22, 2016)

Summary

• Released on November 22, 2016 (Gammapy 0.5 on PyPI)
• 12 contributors (5 new)
• 7 months of work (from April 20, 2016 to November 22, 2016)
• 184 pull requests (not all listed below)
• Requires Python 2.7 or 3.4+, Numpy 1.8+, Scipy 0.15+, Astropy 1.2+, Sherpa 4.8.2+

What’s new?

• Tutorial-style getting started documentation as Jupyter notebooks
• Removed gammapy.regions and have switched to the move complete and powerful regions package (planned to be added to the Astropy core within the next year).
• gammapy.spectrum - Many 1-dimensional spectrum analysis improvements (e.g. spectral point computation)
• gammapy.image - Many SkyImage improvements, adaptive ring background estimation, asmooth algorithm
• gammapy.detect - CWT and TS map improvements
• gammapy.time - A lightcurve class and variability test
• gammapy.irf - Many improvements to IRF classes, especially the PSF classes.
• Many improved tests and test coverage

Contributors:

• Axel Donath
• Brigitta Sipocz
• Christoph Deil
• Domenico Tiziani (new)
• Helen Poon (new)
• Johannes King
• Julien Lefaucheur (new)
• Léa Jouvin
• Matthew Wood (new)
• Nachiketa Chakraborty (new)
• Olga Vorokh
• Régis Terrier

Pull requests

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

See the complete Gammapy 0.5 merged pull requests list on Github.

• [#790] Add powerlaw energy flux integral for gamma=2 (Axel Donath)
• [#789] Fix Wstat (Johannes King)
• [#783] Add PHA type II file I/O to SpectrumObservationList (Johannes King)
• [#778] Fix Gauss PSF energy bin issue (Léa Jouvin)
• [#777] Rewrite crab spectrum as class (Axel Donath)
• [#774] Add skyimage smooth method (Axel Donath)
• [#772] Stack EDISP for a set of observations (Léa Jouvin)
• [#767] Improve PSF checker and add a test (Christoph Deil)
• [#766] Improve SkyCube convolution and npred computation (Axel Donath)
• [#763] Add TablePSFChecker (Domenico Tiziani)
• [#762] Add IRFStacker class (Léa Jouvin)
• [#759] Improve SkyCube energy axes (Axel Donath)
• [#754] Change EventList from Table subclass to attribute (Christoph Deil)
• [#753] Improve SkyCube class (Axel Donath)
• [#746] Add image asmooth algorithm (Axel Donath)
• [#740] Add SpectrumObservationStacker (Johannes King)
• [#739] Improve kernel background estimator (Axel Donath)
• [#738] Fix reflected region pixel origin issue (Léa Jouvin)
• [#733] Add spectral table model (Julien Lefaucheur)
• [#731] Add energy dispersion RMF integration (Léa Jouvin)
• [#719] Add adaptive ring background estimation (Axel Donath)
• [#713] Improve ring background estimation (Axel Donath)
• [#710] Misc image and cube cleanup (Christoph Deil)
• [#709] Spectrum energy grouping (Christoph Deil)
• [#679] Add flux point computation method (Johannes King)
• [#677] Fermi 3FGL and 2FHL spectrum plotting (Axel Donath)
• [#661] Improve continuous wavelet transform (Olga Vorokh)
• [#660] Add Fermipy sky image code to Gammapy (Matthew Wood)
• [#653] Add up- and downsampling to SkyImage (Axel Donath)
• [#649] Change to astropy regions package (Christoph Deil)
• [#648] Add class to load CTA IRFs (Julien Lefaucheur)
• [#647] Add SpectrumSimulation class (Johannes King)
• [#641] Add ECPL model, energy flux and integration methods (Axel Donath)
• [#640] Remove pyfact (Christoph Deil)
• [#635] Fix TS maps low stats handling (Axel Donath)
• [#631] Fix ExclusionMask.distance (Olga Vorokh)
• [#628] Add flux points computation methods (Johannes King)
• [#622] Make gammapy.time great again (Christoph Deil)
• [#599] Move powerlaw utility functions to separate namespace (Christoph Deil)
• [#594] Fix setup.py and docs/conf.py configparser import (Christoph Deil)
• [#593] Remove gammapy/hspec (Christoph Deil)
• [#591] Add spectrum energy flux computation (Axel Donath)
• [#582] Add SkyImageList (Olga Vorokh)
• [#558] Finish change to use gammapy.extern.regions (Johannes King and Christoph Deil)
• [#569] Add detection utilities à la BgStats (Julien Lefaucheur)
• [#565] Add exptest time variability test (Helen Poon)
• [#564] Add LightCurve class (Nachiketa Chakraborty)
• [#559] Add paste, cutout and look_up methods to SkyMap class (Axel Donath)
• [#557] Add spectrum point source containment correction option (Régis Terrier)
• [#556] Add offset-dependent table PSF class (Domenico Tiziani)
• [#549] Add mean PSF computation (Léa Jouvin)
• [#547] Add astropy.regions to gammapy.extern (Johannes King)
• [#546] Add Target class (Johannes King)
• [#545] Add PointingInfo class (Christoph Deil)
• [#544] Improve SkyMap.coordinates (Olga Vorokh)
• [#541] Refactor effective area IRFs to use NDDataArray (Johannes King)
• [#535] Add spectrum and flux points to HGPS catalog (Axel Donath)
• [#531] Add ObservationTableSummary class (Julien Lefaucheur)
• [#530] Update readthedocs links from .org to .io (Brigitta Sipocz)
• [#529] Add data_summary method to DataStore (Johannes King)
• [#527] Add n-dim data base class for gammapy.irf (Johannes King)
• [#526] Add King PSF evaluate and to_table_psf methods (Léa Jouvin)
• [#524] Improve image pipe class (Léa Jouvin)
• [#523] Add Gauss PSF to_table_psf method (Axel Donath)
• [#521] Fix image pipe class (Léa Jouvin)

0.4 (April 20, 2016)

Summary

• Released on April 20, 2016 (Gammapy 0.4 on PyPI)
• 10 contributors (5 new)
• 8 months of work (from August 13, 2015 to April 20, 2016)
• 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)

0.3 (August 13, 2015)

Summary

• Released on August 13, 2015 (Gammapy 0.3 on PyPI)
• 9 contributors (5 new)
• 4 months of work (from April 13, 2014 to August 13, 2015)
• 24 pull requests
• Requires Astropy version 1.0 or later.
• On-off likelihood spectral analysis was added in gammapy.hspec, contributed by Régis Terrier and Ignasi Reichardt. It will be refactored and is thus not part of the public API.
• The Gammapy 0.3 release is the basis for an ICRC 2015 poster contribution

Contributors:

• Manuel Paz Arribas
• Christoph Deil
• Axel Donath
• Jonathan Harris (new)
• Johannes King (new)
• Stefan Klepser (new)
• Ignasi Reichardt (new)
• Régis Terrier
• Victor Zabalza (new)

Pull requests

• [#326] Fix Debian install instructions (Victor Zabalza)
• [#318] Set up and document logging for Gammapy (Christoph Deil)
• [#317] Using consistent plotting style in docs (Axel Donath)
• [#312] Add an “About Gammapy” page to the docs (Christoph Deil)
• [#306] Use assert_quantity_allclose from Astropy (Manuel Paz Arribas)
• [#301] Simplified attribute docstrings (Manuel Paz Arribas)
• [#299] Add cube background model class (Manuel Paz Arribas)
• [#296] Add interface to HESS FitSpectrum JSON output (Christoph Deil)
• [#295] Observation table subset selection (Manuel Paz Arribas)
• [#291] Remove gammapy.shower package (Christoph Deil)
• [#289] Add a simple Makefile for Gammapy. (Manuel Paz Arribas)
• [#286] Function to plot Fermi 3FGL light curves (Jonathan Harris)
• [#285] Add infos how to handle times in Gammapy (Christoph Deil)
• [#283] Consistent random number handling and improve sample_sphere (Manuel Paz Arribas)
• [#280] Add new subpackage: gammapy.time (Christoph Deil)
• [#279] Improve SNRcat dataset (Christoph Deil)
• [#278] Document observation tables and improve gammapy.obs (Manuel Paz Arribas)
• [#276] Add EffectiveAreaTable exporter to EffectiveAreaTable2D (Johannes King)
• [#273] Fix TS map header writing and temp file handling (Axel Donath)
• [#264] Add hspec - spectral analysis using Sherpa (Régis Terrier, Ignasi Reichardt, Christoph Deil)
• [#262] Add SNRCat dataset access function (Christoph Deil)
• [#261] Fix spiral arm model bar radius (Stefan Klepser)
• [#260] Add offset-dependent effective area IRF class (Johannes King)
• [#256] EventList class fixes and new features (Christoph Deil)

0.2 (April 13, 2015)

Summary

• Released on April 13, 2015 (Gammapy 0.2 on PyPI)
• 4 contributors (1 new)
• 8 months of work (from August 25, 2014 to April 13, 2015)
• 40 pull requests
• Requires Astropy version 1.0 or later.
• Gammapy now uses Cython, i.e. requires a C compiler for end-users and in addition Cython for developers.

Contributors:

• Manuel Paz Arribas (new)
• Christoph Deil
• Axel Donath
• Ellis Owen

Pull requests

• [#254] Add changelog for Gammapy (Christoph Deil)
• [#252] Implement TS map computation in Cython (Axel Donath)
• [#249] Add data store and observation table classes, improve event list classes (Christoph Deil)
• [#248] Add function to fill acceptance image from curve (Manuel Paz Arribas)
• [#247] Various fixes to image utils docstrings (Manuel Paz Arribas)
• [#246] Add catalog and plotting utils (Axel Donath)
• [#245] Add colormap and PSF inset plotting functions (Axel Donath)
• [#244] Add 3FGL to dataset fetch functions (Manuel Paz Arribas)
• [#236] Add likelihood converter function (Christoph Deil)
• [#235] Add some catalog utilities (Christoph Deil)
• [#234] Add multi-scale TS image computation (Axel Donath)
• [#231] Add observatory and data classes (Christoph Deil)
• [#230] Use setuptools entry_points for scripts (Christoph Deil)
• [#225] Misc cleanup (Christoph Deil)
• [#221] TS map calculation update and docs (Axel Donath)
• [#215] Restructure TS map computation (Axel Donath)
• [#212] Bundle xmltodict.py in gammapy/extern (Christoph Deil)
• [#210] Restructure image measurement functions (Axel Donath)
• [#205] Remove healpix_to_image function (moved to reproject repo) (Christoph Deil)
• [#200] Fix quantity errors from astro source models (Christoph Deil)
• [#194] Bundle TeVCat in gammapy.datasets (Christoph Deil)
• [#191] Add Fermi PSF dataset and example (Ellis Owen)
• [#188] Add tests for spectral_cube.integral_flux_image (Ellis Owen)
• [#187] Fix bugs in spectral cube class (Ellis Owen)
• [#186] Add iterative kernel background estimator (Ellis Owen)

0.1 (August 25, 2014)

Summary

• Released on August 25, 2014 (Gammapy 0.1 on PyPI)
• 5 contributors
• 15 months of work (from May 15, 2013 to August 25, 2014)
• 82 pull requests
• Requires Astropy version 0.4 or later.

Contributors:

• Rolf Bühler
• Christoph Deil
• Axel Donath
• Ellis Owen
• Régis Terrier

Pull requests

Note that Gammapy development started out directly in the master branch, i.e. for some things there is no pull request we can list here.

• [#180] Clean up datasets code and docs (Christoph Deil)
• [#177] Misc code and docs cleanup (Christoph Deil)
• [#176] Add new gammapy.data sub-package (Christoph Deil)
• [#167] Add image profile function (Ellis Owen)
• [#166] Add SED from Cube function (Ellis Owen)
• [#160] Add code to make model images from a source catalog (Ellis Owen)
• [#157] Re-write Galaxy modelling code (Axel Donath)
• [#156] Add Fermi Vela dataset (Ellis Owen)
• [#155] Add PSF convolve function (Ellis Owen)
• [#154] Add Fermi PSF convolution method (Ellis Owen)
• [#151] Improve npred cube functionality (Ellis Owen)
• [#150] Add npred cube computation (Christoph Deil and Ellis Owen)
• [#142] Add EffectiveAreaTable and EnergyDependentMultiGaussPSF classes (Axel Donath)
• [#138] Add Crab flux point dataset (Rolf Bühler)
• [#128] Add flux point computation using Lafferty & Wyatt (1995) (Ellis Owen)
• [#122] Add morphology models as Astropy models (Axel Donath)
• [#117] Improve synthetic Milky Way modeling (Christoph Deil)
• [#116] Add Galactic source catalog simulation methods (Christoph Deil)
• [#109] Python 2 / 3 compatibility with a single codebase (Christoph Deil)
• [#103] Add datasets functions to fetch Fermi catalogs (Ellis Owen)
• [#100] Add image plotting routines (Christoph Deil)
• [#96] Add wstat likelihood function for spectra and images (Christoph Deil)
• [#88] Add block reduce function for HDUs (Ellis Owen)
• [#84] Add TablePSF and Fermi PSF (Christoph Deil)
• [#68] Integrate PyFACT functionality in Gammapy (Christoph Deil)
• [#67] Add image measure methods (Christoph Deil)
• [#66] Add plotting module and HESS colormap (Axel Donath)
• [#65] Add model image and image measurement functionality (Axel Donath)
• [#64] Add coordinate string IAU designation format (Christoph Deil)
• [#58] Add per-pixel solid angle function in image utils (Ellis Owen)
• [#48] Add sphere and power-law sampling functions (Christoph Deil)
• [#34] Rename tevpy to gammapy (Christoph Deil)
• [#25] Add continuous wavelet transform class (Régis Terrier)
• [#12] Add coverage reports to continuous integration on coveralls (Christoph Deil)
• [#11] Add blob detection (Axel Donath)
• Rename tevpy to gammapy in commit 7e955f on Aug 19, 2013 (Christoph Deil)
• Start tevpy repo with commit 11af4c on May 15, 2013 (Christoph Deil)