kernsuite-debian/astro-amber

AMBER: a Fast Radio Burst real-time pipeline

AMBER is a many-core accelerated and fully auto-tuned pipeline for detecting Fast Radio Bursts and other single pulse transients.

Publications

• Alessio Sclocco, Joeri van Leeuwen, Henri E. Bal, Rob V. van Nieuwpoort. A Real-Time Radio Transient Pipeline for ARTS. 3rd IEEE Global Conference on Signal & Information Processing, December 14-16, 2015, Orlando (Florida), USA. (print) (preprint) (slides)

Dependencies

• utils - master branch
• OpenCL - master branch
• AstroData - master branch
• Dedispersion - master branch
• Integration - master branch
• SNR - master branch

./bin/TransientSearch -opencl_platform ... -opencl_device ...

-device_name allows you to use predefined configs from the input files

Files made by tuning the separate parts (ie. output of tuning / analyse scripts and some editing) -padding_file ... -dedispersion_file ... -integration_file ... -snr_file ...

-zapped_channels ... see Dedispersion -integration_steps ... see Integration

[-print] Prints extra info [-compact_results] Merge consecutive candidates into a single one -input_bits ... see Dedispersion -output ... Output file name -dm_node ... Number of DMs per node (split via MPI) -dm_first ... see Desispersion -dm_step ... see Desispersion -threshold ... signal to noise threshold

Data sources: Lofar: -lofar -header ... -data ... [-limit] -limit -seconds ...

Sigproc: -sigproc -header ... -data ... -seconds ... -channels ... -min_freq ... -channel_bandwidth ... -samples ...

PSR DADA ring buffer: -dada -dada_key ... -beams ... -seconds ...

default, Generated data: [-random] -width ... -dm ... -beams ... -seconds ... -channels ... -min_freq ... -channel_bandwidth ... -samples ...

License

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0.