Monday, September 10, 2012

1209.1576 (Jayce Dowell et al.)

The Long Wavelength Array Software Library    [PDF]

Jayce Dowell, Daniel Wood, Kevin Stovall, Paul S. Ray, Tracy Clarke, Gregory Taylor
The Long Wavelength Array Software Library (LSL) is a Python module that provides a collection of utilities to analyze and export data collected at the first station of the Long Wavelength Array, LWA1. Due to the nature of the data format and large-N ($\gtrsim$100 inputs) challenges faced by the LWA, currently available software packages are not suited to process the data. Using tools provided by LSL, observers can read in the raw LWA1 data, synthesize a filter bank, and apply incoherent de-dispersion to the data. The extensible nature of LSL also makes it an ideal tool for building data analysis pipelines and applying the methods to other low frequency arrays.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1209.1576

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