PINT Pal

A repository for standardizing timing analysis and data combination work with a Jupyter notebook framework and corresponding tools.

pint_pal includes tools and notebook templates to facilitate transparency and reproducibility in timing pulsars using PINT. Configuration (.yaml) files contain relatively compact metadata to capture decisions made during the timing process so that such information can naturally be version controlled. Configuration files can be "plugged into" standardized notebook templates to asses and update results.

More information about available tools and use cases coming soon!

Getting started

PINT is necessary for core functionality of pint_pal, but the following packages are also required to do detailed outlier inspection and run noise analyses:

• enterprise
• enterprise_extensions
• enterprise_outliers
• pypulse

There are instructions for installing these packages and setting up your environment here: https://github.com/ipta/pulsar-env. Please note that installing mamba must be done from a clean (base) conda environment; you can make and activate a fresh environment with, e.g.:

$ conda create --name installer && conda activate installer

Installation

pint_pal is now available on PyPI, so users who do not wish to develop code can grab the latest tagged version with:

$ pip install pint-pal

You may also access the latest development (not tagged) version of the repository by cloning it from GitHub, then installing:

$ git clone https://github.com/nanograv/pint_pal.git
$ cd pint_pal
$ pip install .

To further develop pint_pal code, fork this repository, clone your fork, then:

$ cd pint_pal
$ pip install -e .
$ git remote add upstream https://github.com/nanograv/pint_pal

Before making changes, we highly recommend using pulsar-env (see above) to set up a consistent environment. Submit changes for review by opening a PR from your fork.