Resources
Here are some useful software packages, papers, books and other materials for doing and learning about pulsars, neutron stars and radio astrophysics in general.Literature
Lectures and Talks
Software name | About software | details | Get it on |
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ugmrt2fil |
A package to convert uGMRT raw data files to sigproc-filterbank format. | Link | |
pinta |
A data analysis pipeline for upgraded GMRT pulsar data. It RFI mitigates and folds uGMRT data to form PSRFITS archives. |
Detailed description of pinta is given in Susobhanan et al., 2020.
See this user guide for instructions on how to access it. |
Link |
DMCalc |
A python based script that estimates the Dispersion Measure (DM) of wide-band pulsar data in psrfits format. | More details and the results obtained using this can be seen in Krishnakumar et al. (2020) | Link |
PULPS |
A python package that simulates pulsar profiles with DM variations and scatter-broadening. | currently under-preparation |
Software name | About software | details | Get it on |
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TEMPO2 |
A high precision pulsar timing tool | Developed at the ATNF mainly by George Hobbs and Russell Edwards. Significant enhancements have also been made by Joris Verbiest. Read the documentation here . Find some examples here . | BitBucket |
ENTERPRISE |
A pulsar timing analysis code, aimed at noise analysis, gravitational-wave searches, and timing model analysis. | ENTERPRISE--Enhanced Numerical Toolbox Enabling a Robust PulsaR Inference SuitE. Developed by NANO-Grav. Read the documentation here | Github |
GPTOOL |
GMRT Pulsar Tool is a RFI mitigation and pulsar processing tool for GMRT beamformer data | Developed by Aditya Chowdhury and Yashwant Gupta. | Github |
RFIclean
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Excises Get itic RFI (broadband as well as narrow-band) in the Fourier domain, and then mitigates narrow-band spectral line RFI as well as broadband bursty time-domain RFI using robust statistics. | Details of the methods used in RFIClean as well as some of the early scientific contributions of RFIClean can be found in this paper. | GitHub |
PSRCHIVE |
Open Source C++ development library for the analysis of pulsar astronomical data. Implements an extensive range of algorithms for use in pulsar timing, scintillation studies, polarimetric calibration, single-pulse work, RFI mitigation, etc. | Utilized by a powerful suite of user-end programs that come with the library. The software is described in Hotan, van Straten & Manchester (2004). | Source-Forge |
DSPSR |
Open Source C++ development library for digital signal processing of pulsar astronomical timeseries. | Implements an extensive range of algorithms for use in coherent dedispersion, filterbank formation, pulse folding, etc. Utilized by a powerful suite of user-end programs that come with the library. | Source-Forge |
PSRCAT |
PSRCAT (ATNF Pulsar catalogue)- is a web-based application that serves as a catalog for radio pulsars. | Observational properties of pulsars, Ephemeris, etc. can be enlisted through it. | ATNF |