What PSRUI Is

PSRUI is a desktop application built around archive-centric pulsar workflows.

It brings common PSRCHIVE-facing operations into a GUI, uses interactive charts instead of the classic X11 / PGPLOT workflow, and keeps the upstream command-line semantics visible rather than hiding them completely.

Typical users

• researchers or students who want to inspect .ar / .fits data quickly
• people who need profile, waterfall, time-phase, and bandpass views in one interface
• users who want to do light zapping, scrunching, TOA extraction, and calibration previews in a GUI before exporting results

What it does not try to replace

• it is not a GUI wrapper for the full PSRCHIVE manual
• it does not currently cover the raw-baseband to folded-archive stage that is more closely associated with dspsr
• it does not yet provide a complete .par + .tim + tempo2 residual analysis workflow

How to think about PSRUI versus upstream tools

• PSRUI owns the GUI, session previews, state management, and batch recipes
• the backend translates GUI state into paz, pam, pat, and pac commands
• upstream tools still perform the real data transformations

Continue with:

• Install and Choose a Runtime
• PSRUI Guide
• Toolchain Reference