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arxiv 1606.00393 v2 pith:ED3LY3HO submitted 2016-06-01 astro-ph.IM astro-ph.HE

GammaLib and ctools: A software framework for the analysis of astronomical gamma-ray data

J. Kn\"odlseder , M. Mayer , C. Deil , J.-B. Cayrou , E. Owen , N. Kelley-Hoskins , C.-C. Lu , R. Buehler
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F. Forest T. Louge H. Siejkowski K. Kosack L. Gerard A. Schulz P. Martin D. Sanchez S. Ohm T. Hassan S. Brau-Nogu\'e
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The field of gamma-ray astronomy has seen important progress during the last decade, yet there exists so far no common software framework for the scientific analysis of gamma-ray telescope data. We propose to fill this gap by means of the GammaLib software, a generic library that we have developed to support the analysis of gamma-ray event data. GammaLib has been written in C++ and all functionality is available in Python through an extension module. On top of this framework we have developed the ctools software package, a suite of software tools that enables building of flexible workflows for the analysis of Imaging Air Cherenkov Telescope event data. The ctools are inspired by science analysis software available for existing high-energy astronomy instruments, and they follow the modular ftools model developed by the High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center. The ctools have been written in Python and C++, and can be either used from the command line, via shell scripts, or directly from Python. In this paper we present the GammaLib and ctools software versions 1.0 that have been released end of 2015. GammaLib and ctools are ready for the science analysis of Imaging Air Cherenkov Telescope event data, and also support the analysis of Fermi-LAT data and the exploitation of the COMPTEL legacy data archive. We propose to use ctools as the Science Tools software for the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory.

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