Abstract

Invited Talk - Plenary

Tuesday, 10 September 2024, 11:00   (Aula 1&2 / virtual plenum)

PSRCHIVE - Open-Source Software for Pulsar Data Analysis

Willem van Straten
Manly Astrophysics

PSRCHIVE consists of a development library and a suite of applications that can be used to perform a wide variety of common tasks on pulsar longitude-resolved averages of some quantity, most often flux density. It includes routines for things like correcting dispersive delay, polarimetric calibration, identifying and excising data that have been corrupted by radio frequency interference, and estimating the time at which a fiducial phase of the pulsar’s periodic signal arrives at the telescope. Over the past 20 years, both the user community and functionality of the software have steadily grown. I'll reflect on the history of the software and the drivers that shaped its evolution, and outline some ideas for the future of the project.