PSRCHIVE Tutorial

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

• Session history from Paul's demo
• Data files from demo