Toolchain Reference

PSRCHIVE Overview

Treat PSRCHIVE as an archive-centric toolbox and understand how PSRUI sits on top of it.

PSRCHIVE is a family of tools and libraries built around pulsar archive processing and analysis.

For PSRUI users, the most useful framing is not to memorize every command. It is to understand that:

the toolchain is archive-centric
many common workflows are composed from smaller CLI steps
the GUI exposes only a selected subset of those steps

The most relevant commands around PSRUI

paz: zapping and excision
pam: archive transforms such as scrunching, dedispersion, and phase rotation
pat: TOA extraction
pac: polarimetric calibration workflows

Typical chain

archive -> preview -> zap/pam/pat/pac -> exported archive / TOA text

PSRUI's backend exists in the middle of that chain, handling session materialization, command execution, and result delivery.

PSRUI today: the app focuses on archive preview and post-processing. It does not cover the earlier raw/baseband stage that is more closely associated with dspsr.

Further reading

Toolchain Reference

Understand the key upstream tools around PSRUI and where the GUI currently stops.

Pulsar Data Analysis with PSRCHIVE

Use the paper as a workflow map for PSRCHIVE core apps, RFI excision, calibration, TOA extraction, and what still sits outside PSRUI.

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The most relevant commands around PSRUI Typical chain Further reading