Process batch of GMRT search mode data

Convert uGMRT raw data files to sigproc-filterbank format and generate folded archive files. Total intensity, both in 16-bit and 8-bit data formats, is supported at present. Working on extracting total intensity from full Stokes GMRT data and converting it to filterbank.

Installation

The package has two parts: one part in Python to handle the filesystem, inputs, and outputs. The second part is a modified version of ugmrt2fil that can handle both 8-bit and 16-bit raw GMRT data.

1. Processing_modules: This contains Python modules needed by the main processGMRT.py code. These modules require standard python packages installed. One needs to change path_ugmrt2fil in the Processing_modules/processGMRT_global.py to the current CPP_utilities directory and path_par to a folder containing parameter files. Also, change the data_path in processGMRT.py to the folder containing GMRT raw and header files. The folding part requires dspsr installed.
2. CPP_utilities: This folder contains modified ugmrt2fil codes and should be installed using make within CPP_utilities directory before use.

Usage

$ python processGMRT.py