| | 1 | == Conversion Software == |
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| | 3 | The first software aspect of this project is to convert the survey data into a standard format that will be widely understandable. This will be the PSRFITS format, a variant of the FITS standard specialised for pulsar data structures but readable by anything that can read a FITS file. This stage has involved the creation of a number of programs, accessible in the usual pulsar filesystem: |
| | 4 | * pvoconvert -- Convert PKS format survey observations to PSRFITS format. |
| | 5 | * pvosummary -- Summarise the positions, observation date/time, frequency of PSRFITS files, with the ability to produce a csv file listing a range of useful metadata. |
| | 6 | * pvoconesearch -- A command-line tool to search for PSRFITS files that cover sky within a specified radius of a specified position. |
