pulsarbat

pulsarbat (PULSAR Baseband Analysis Tools) is a Python package for analysis of radio baseband signals. Although this package has a special focus on radio pulsar astronomy, it can be easily used to work with other types of radio astronomical observations (such as fast radio bursts, quasars, and so on) or any time-frequency data, in general. pulsarbat provides:

• Signals: Standardized containers for signal data.
• Functions/Transforms for manipulating signals.
• Easy integration with Dask for lazily executed workflows or managing large workloads in an "embarassingly parallel" manner.

Documentation can be found at: https://pulsarbat.readthedocs.io

Quickstart

Install the latest version of pulsarbat:

$ pip install pulsarbat

To use pulsarbat in a project:

import pulsarbat as pb

Citing

pulsarbat has a DOI via Zenodo: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6934355

This DOI link represents all versions, and will always resolve to the latest one. Use the following Bibtex entry to cite this work:

@software{pulsarbat,
  author       = {Nikhil Mahajan and Rebecca Lin},
  title        = {pulsarbat: PULSAR Baseband Analysis Tools},
  year         = {2023},
  publisher    = {Zenodo},
  doi          = {10.5281/zenodo.6934355},
  url          = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6934355}
}

License

pulsarbat is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.