your_candmaker.py

Description

Your candmaker! Make h5 candidates from the candidate csv files

Epilog

your_candmaker.py can be used to make candidate cutout files. Some additional notes for this script:

• These files are generated in HDF file format.

• The output candidates have been preprocessed and consists of Dedispersed Frequency-Time and DM-Time information of the candidate.

• The input should be a csv file containing the parameters of the candidates. The input csv file should contain the following fields:

  - file: Filterbank or PSRFITs file containing the data. In case of multiple files, this should contain the name of first file.
  
  - snr: Signal to Noise of the candidate.
  
  - width: Width of candidate as log2(number of samples).
  
  - dm: DM of candidate
  
  - label: Label of candidate (can be just set to 0, if not known)
  
  - stime: Start time (seconds) of the candidate.
  
  - chan_mask_path: Path of the channel mask file.
  
  - num_files: Number of files.
  

Usage:

usage: your_candmaker.py [-h] [-v] [-fs FREQUENCY_SIZE] [-g GPU_ID [GPU_ID ...]] [-ts TIME_SIZE] -c CAND_PARAM_FILE [-n NPROC] [-o FOUT] [-opt] [--no_log_file]

Arguments

short	long	default	help
-h	--help		show this help message and exit
-v	--verbose		Be verbose
-fs	--frequency_size	256	Frequency size after rebinning
-g	--gpu_id	[-1]	GPU ID (use -1 for CPU). To use multiple GPUs (say with id 2 and 3 use -g 2 3
-ts	--time_size	256	Time length after rebinning
-c	--cand_param_file	None	csv file with candidate parameters
-n	--nproc	2	number of processors to use in parallel (default: 2)
-o	--fout	.	Output file directory for candidate h5
-opt	--opt_dm		Optimise DM
	--no_log_file		Do not write a log file