The Astro2020 Decadal Survey recommended, as its highest-priority sustaining activity, that NASA establish a Time Domain Astronomy and Multi-messenger program
“…to realize and sustain the necessary suite of space-based electromagnetic capabilities required to study transient and time variable phenomena, and to follow-up multi-messenger events.”
To meet this goal, NASA’s Internal Scientist Funding Model program has tapped the expertise of the Relativistic Astrophysics team at MSFC to support TDAMM astrophysics by extending analysis tools and techniques developed for the Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor to enable and support current and future TDAMM missions.has been one of NASA’s premiere facilities for the detection of gamma-ray transients.
USRA recently released the Gamma-ray Data Tools 2.0 via Github and PyPi. The Gamma-ray Data Tools serves as a Standard multi-mission data analysis suite for gamma-ray missions, much as X-Spec has for x-ray missions. The software package is built on the GBM data tools and establishes a standard framework to handle data from generic gamma-ray instruments, as well as Swift and several specific legacy instruments.
Base classes for localization annuli and generic orbit handling have been incorporated into the GDT v2.0. These classes establish the framework on which to build the modernized IPN. A separate IPN toolkit will be released to the public next year, which will include simulation software, cross correlation algorithms, and localization annuli generation. These additions will help missions assess their contribution to, and more easily participate in, the IPN.
A re-write of the GBM targeted search using the GDT v2.0 has been completed and an open-source public release of the new Gamma-ray Targeted Search is forthcoming. The BurstCube team is already working on incorporating the GTS into their science operations pipeline for the analyze of their untriggered data.
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