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--- pulsar_finding [2018/05/06 19:28] – jrseti
+++ pulsar_finding [2023/10/28 18:36] (current) – external edit 127.0.0.1
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   * [[https://www.cv.nrao.edu/~sransom/PRESTO_search_tutorial.pdf|Presto tutorial]]
   * [[http://www.atnf.csiro.au/research/pulsar/psrcat/|Pulsar values lookup]]
+  * [[http://www.atnf.csiro.au/people/pulsar/tempo/ref_man_sections/obsys.txt|Tempo observatory file format]]
 ==B0329+54 May 05, 2018==
-In /home/sonata/B0329+54/may5
+**In /home/sonata/B0329+54/may5**
+readfile /data/psrB0329+54_5990mhz_58us_6ants_10min_may5_2018.fil
+  Assuming the data is a SIGPROC filterbank file.
+: From the SIGPROC filterbank file '/data/psrB0329+54_5990mhz_58us_6ants_10min_may5_2018.fil':
+                  Telescope = ATA
+                Source Name = psrB0329+54
+                    Backend = Unknown
+            Obs Date String = 2018-05-05T17:03:50
+             MJD start time = 58243.71099537036935
+                   RA J2000 = 03:32:59.3672
+             RA J2000 (deg) = 53.24736328125
+                  Dec J2000 = 54:34:43.5625
+            Dec J2000 (deg) = 54.5787673611111
+                  Tracking? = True
+              Azimuth (deg) = 0
+           Zenith Ang (deg) = 0
+            Number of polns = 2 (summed)
+           Sample time (us) = 58.5937486903276
+         Central freq (MHz) = 5990
+          Low channel (MHz) = 5937.5968
+         High channel (MHz) = 6042.4032
+        Channel width (MHz) = 0.0512
+         Number of channels = 2048
+      Total Bandwidth (MHz) = 104.8576
+                       Beam = 1 of 1
+            Beam FWHM (deg) = 1.000
+         Spectra per subint = 2400
+            Starting subint = 0
+           Subints per file = 0
+           Spectra per file = 10252288
+      Time per subint (sec) = 0.140624996857
+        Time per file (sec) = 600.719986573
+            bits per sample = 32
+          bytes per spectra = 8192
+        samples per spectra = 2048
+           bytes per subint = 19660800
+         samples per subint = 4915200
+                zero offset = 0
+           Invert the band? = False
+       bytes in file header = 389
 rfifind -time 5.0 -o themask /data/psrB0329+54_5990mhz_58us_6ants_10min_may5_2018.fil
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 According to [[http://www.atnf.csiro.au/research/pulsar/psrcat/proc_form.php?version=1.58&table_top.x=35&table_top.y=14&Name=Name&P0=P0&DM=DM&DM1=DM1&startUserDefined=true&c1_val=&c2_val=&c3_val=&c4_val=&sort_attr=jname&sort_order=asc&condition=&pulsar_names=+B0329%2B54&ephemeris=short&coords_unit=raj%2Fdecj&radius=&coords_1=&coords_2=&style=Long+with+last+digit+error&no_value=*&fsize=3&x_axis=&x_scale=linear&y_axis=&y_scale=linear&state=query|This pulsar data query]] P=0.714519699726 and dm=26.7641
-prepdata -dm 26.7641 -o outfilename_DM -numout "power-of-2" -mask themask_rfifind.mask /data/psrB0329+54_5990mhz_58us_6ants_10min_may5_2018.fil
+readline reports 10252288 Spectra per file. I chose the closest power of 2 as the -numout 8388608
+prepdata -nobary -dm 26.7641 -o outfilename_DM -numout 8388608 -mask themask_rfifind.mask /data/psrB0329+54_5990mhz_58us_6ants_10min_may5_2018.fil
+NOTE! Had to edit ~/presto/tempo/obsys.dat and add the ATA, otherwise tempo does not work
+Replaced:
+.30     795056.36        893.7            GB 300FT            9  G3
+    with
+    40490264.0     1212818.48       1018.69           ATA                 9  AT
+NOTE: Not removing the G3 line first caused the following error:
+  Generating barycentric corrections...
+  Error in chkfopen(): No such file or directory
+     path = 'resid2.tmp'
+Now it runs (removed the G3 line):
+             Pulsar Data Preparation Routine
+      Type conversion, de-dispersion, barycentering.
+                   by Scott M. Ransom
+  Assuming the data are SIGPROC filterbank format...
+  Reading SIGPROC filterbank data from 1 file:
+    '/data/psrB0329+54_5990mhz_58us_6ants_10min_may5_2018.fil'
+      Number of files = 1
+         Num of polns = 2 (summed)
+    Center freq (MHz) = 5990
+       Num of channels = 2048
+      Sample time (s) = 5.8593748690328e-05
+       Spectra/subint = 2400
+     Total points (N) = 10252288
+       Total time (s) = 600.71998657286
+       Clipping sigma = 6.000
+     Invert the band? = False
+            Byteswap? = False
+       Remove zeroDM? = False
+  File  Start Spec   Samples     Padding        Start MJD
+  ----  ----------  ----------  ----------  --------------------
+              0    10252288           0  58243.71099537036935
+  This is the ATA!
+  Read mask information from 'themask_rfifind.mask'
+  Attempting to read the data statistics from 'themask_rfifind.stats'...
+  ...succeded.  Set the padding values equal to the mid-80% channel averages.
+  Writing output data to 'outfilename_DM.dat'.
+  Writing information to 'outfilename_DM.inf'.
+  Generating barycentric corrections...
+     Average topocentric velocity (c) = 2.931167e-05
+     Maximum topocentric velocity (c) = 2.931716e-05
+     Minimum topocentric velocity (c) = 2.930619e-05
+  Collecting and barycentering /data/psrB0329+54_5990mhz_58us_6ants_10min_may5_2018.fil...
+  The DM of 26.76 at the barycentric observing freq of 6042.580 MHz
+   causes a delay of 0.003042 seconds compared to infinite freq.
+   This delay is removed from the barycented times.
+  Topocentric epoch (at data start) is:
+.71099537037
+  Barycentric epoch (infinite obs freq at data start) is:
+.70731137398
+  Massaging the data...
+  Amount Complete = 100%
+  Done.
+  Simple statistics of the output data:
+               Data points written:  8388608
+    Bins removed for barycentering:  246
+             Maximum value of data:  1055630491648.00
+             Minimum value of data:  804496343040.00
+                Data average value:  930264209988.64
+           Data standard deviation:  39408852841.53
+prepfold -dm 26.7641 -p 0.714519699726 /data/psrB0329+54_5990mhz_58us_6ants_10min_may5_2018.fil -mask themask_rfifind.mask -nsub 2048
+          Pulsar Raw-Data Folding Search Routine
+   Used for DM, Period, and P-dot tweaking of PSR candidates.
+                   by Scott M. Ransom
+  Assuming the data are SIGPROC filterbank format...
+  Reading SIGPROC filterbank data from 1 file:
+    '/data/psrB0329+54_5990mhz_58us_6ants_10min_may5_2018.fil'
+      Number of files = 1
+         Num of polns = 2 (summed)
+    Center freq (MHz) = 5990
+      Num of channels = 2048
+      Sample time (s) = 5.8593748690328e-05
+       Spectra/subint = 2400
+     Total points (N) = 10252288
+       Total time (s) = 600.71998657286
+       Clipping sigma = 6.000
+     Invert the band? = False
+            Byteswap? = False
+       Remove zeroDM? = False
+  File  Start Spec   Samples     Padding        Start MJD
+  ----  ----------  ----------  ----------  --------------------
+              0    10252288           0  58243.71099537036935
+  Read mask information from 'themask_rfifind.mask'
+  Attempting to read the data statistics from 'themask_rfifind.stats'...
+  ...succeded.  Set the padding values equal to the mid-80% channel averages.
+  This is the ATA!
+  Folding a 714.52ms_Cand candidate.
+  Output data file is '/data/psrB0329+54_5990mhz_58us_6ants_10min_may5_2018_714.52ms_Cand.pfd'.
+  Output plot file is '/data/psrB0329+54_5990mhz_58us_6ants_10min_may5_2018_714.52ms_Cand.pfd.ps'.
+  Best profile is in  '/data/psrB0329+54_5990mhz_58us_6ants_10min_may5_2018_714.52ms_Cand.pfd.bestprof'.
+  Folding (topo) epoch  (MJD)  =  58243.710995370369
+  Folding (bary) epoch  (MJD)  =  58243.707311373975
+  Data pt duration (dt)   (s)  =  5.85937486903e-05
+  Total number of data points  =  10137600
+  Number of profile bins       =  64
+  Folding period          (s)  =  0.714519699726
+  Folding frequency      (hz)  =  1.39954153872
+  True starting fraction       =  0
+  Generating barycentric corrections...
+  The average topocentric velocity is 2.93118e-05 (units of c).
+  Barycentric folding frequency    (hz)  =  1.39954153872
+  Barycentric folding f-dot      (hz/s)  =  0
+  Barycentric folding f-dotdot (hz/s^2)  =  0
+  Topocentric folding frequency    (hz)  =  1.39950050823
+  Topocentric folding f-dot      (hz/s)  =  2.374989e-11
+  Topocentric folding f-dotdot (hz/s^2)  =  -1.8167136e-14
+  Will search 385 DMs from 0.000 to 73046.868 (ddm = 189.7321)
+  Starting work on 'psrB0329+54_5990mhz_58us_6ants_10min_may5_2018.fil'...
+    Folded 10137600 points of 10137600
+  Optimizing...
+    Searching 385 DMs, 257 periods, and 257 p-dots...
+    Amount Complete = 100%  Done searching.
+  Maximum reduced chi-squared found  =  13.49789
+  Best DM     (pc cm^-3)  =  53314.7269
+  Best topocentric period        (s)  =   0.7161020(34)
+  Best topocentric p-dot       (s/s)  =   1.81(44)x10^-7
+  Best topocentric p-dotdot  (s/s^2)  =  0.0(4.8)x10^-10
+  Best barycentric period        (s)  =   0.7160810(34)
+  Best barycentric p-dot       (s/s)  =   1.81(44)x10^-7
+  Best barycentric p-dotdot  (s/s^2)  =  0.0(4.8)x10^-10
+  Making plots.
+  Effective number of DOF = 60.48
+  Off-pulse Reduced chi^2 correction factor = 0.27
+   Type <RETURN> for next page:
+  Done.
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