PSRCHIVE Tutorial
Tutorial for 2009 NANOGrav meeting.
Basic Info
- PSRCHIVE website
- Mostly written in C++, building it requires:
- Compilers (eg g++/gcc/gfortran)
- PGPLOT
- FFTW
- CFITSIO
- Tempo or Tempo2
- Optional but useful:
- GSL
- Python, Swig
- cvs, autotools
- PSRCHIVE is a set of command-line utilities that operate on
folded pulsar data files (aka "archives").
- All PSRCHIVE programs will produce a help screen when used
with the "-h" argument.
Most Useful PSRCHIVE Programs
- vap, psredit - Print basic info about a file (source name,
frequency, etc).
- pav, psrplot - Produce a variety of plots.
- pam - General-purpose data manipulation.
- paz, pazi, psrzap - RFI removal.
- pac - Calibrate pulsar data.
- pat - Generate TOAs.
Example usage