A collection of procedures designed for analysis of NICER observations. Developed by students in Prof. Lommen's research group at Haverford College.
- Ensure all prerequisites are met
- Use git clone to clone the directory
git clone https://github.com/dmrowan/LommenResearchGroup
- Modify PATH and PYTHONPATH in the bashrc file. If the directory you cloned LommenResarchGroup into is
<basedir>, this would look like:
export PATH=<basedir>/LommenResearchGroup:$PATH
export PYTHONPATH=<basedir>/LommenResearchGroup/:$PYTHONPATH
Code that is in subdirectories can be used in multiple ways. Code can be imported in python:
from pipeline import pulsar_pipe
pulsar_pipe.allprocedures(*args, **kwargs)
For code that can be executed on the command line, the corresponding git subdirectory can be added to the .bashrc PATH variable. For example, to add LommenResearchGroup/pipeline to the PATH, include:
export PATH=<basedir>LommenResearchGroup/pipeline:$PATH
- Python 3
- PINT
- Heasoft
- NICERsoft
- See requirements.txt for python package requirements (dom still has to do this)
We need the TEMPO2 variable to be defined. On the Haverford cluster, this can be added to the bashrc with:
export TEMPO2=/packages/tempo2/T2runtime
Code that uses ftools, XSPEC, or other HEASoft commands require a few environmental variables. On the Haverford cluster, these can be added to the bashrc with:
export HEADAS=/packages/heasoft-6.27.2/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-libc2.23
alias heainit=". $HEADAS/headas-init.sh"
heainit
CALDB=/packages/heasoft-6.27.2/caldb; export CALDB
CALDBCONFIG=$CALDB/software/tools/caldb.config; export CALDBCONFIG
CALDBALIAS=$CALDB/software/tools/alias_config.fits; export CALDBALIAS
- bright_earth -- investigation into soft X-ray background dependence on bright earth angle
- pipeline -- collection of pipeline routines for various sources
- Dominick Rowan
- Liam Lynch
- Andrea Lommen
- Zaynab Ghazi
- Lauren Lugo
- Nate Ruhl
- Noah Schwab
- Mackenzie Tygh
- Sasha Levina
See also the list of contributors who participated in this project.