FFANCY: A pulsar searching software package designed for testing of and experimentation with the Fast Folding Algorithm (FFA) Developed by Andrew Cameron, MPIfR IMPRS PhD research student, in collaboration with Ewan Barr & David Champion
Contact: acameron@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de
Installation
FFANCY is self contained, and requires only standard external C libraries for installation. Simply run 'make all' and the full set of executables will be compiled in the root directory.
Usage
The programs included in this package serve the following functions:
Running './program -h/--help' will provide detailed help and usage instructions for each individual program in this suite
Terminology changes
During the development of this software, the profile evaluation algorithms were previously referred to as "metrics" and used a modified numbering system. The primary Algorithms, 1 & 2, were previously known as Metrics 6 & 7 respectively. Secondary Algorithms 3 - 8 were previously known as Metrics 0 - 5 respectively. Although the public interfaces for these programs reflect the new terminology, please bear in mind that the source code may still reference the old terminology conventions.