rfpipe

A fast radio interferometric transient search library. Extends on rtpipe.

This library supports real-time analysis for the realfast project and offline analysis of VLA data on a single workstation. Integration with the real-time VLA and cluster processing is provided by realfast.

Planned future development include:

• Supporting other search algorithms.
• Supporting other interferometers by adding data and metadata reading functions.

Installation

rfpipe requires the anaconda installer on Linux and OSX. The most reliable installation is for Python3.6 and adding conda-forge:

conda config --add channels conda-forge
conda create -n realfast python=3.6 numpy scipy cython matplotlib numba pyfftw bokeh
source activate realfast
pip install --extra-index-url https://casa-pip.nrao.edu:443/repository/pypi-group/simple casatools
pip install -e git+git://github.com/realfastvla/rfpipe#egg=rfpipe

Dependencies

• numpy/scipy/matplotlib
• casa6 python libraries (for quanta and measures; available on Python 3.6 via pip)
• numba (for multi-core and gpu acceleration)
• rtpipe (for flagging; will be removed soon)
• astropy
• sdmpy
• pyfftw
• pyyaml
• attrs
• rfgpu (optional; for GPU FFTs)
• vys/vysmaw and vysmaw_reader (optional; to read vys data from VLA correlator)

Citation

If you use rfpipe, please support open software by citing the record on the Astrophysics Source Code Library at http://ascl.net/1710.002. In AASTeX, you can do this like so:

\software{..., rfpipe \citep{2017ascl.soft10002L}, ...}