Important Notes: PSRCHIVE 6.0 is the first stable release since the code was migrated from Swinburne to sourceforge. Two important programs, vap and pav have not yet been migrated, but are still available from the Swinburne CVS repository. We hope to see these programs hosted at sourceforge in the near future.

Also, beginning with version 6.0, the PSRCHIVE software can no longer be compiled with GCC earlier than version 3.0. GNU C++ compilers older than version 3 do not completely implement the C++ standard, such as numeric_traits.

New Features in PSRCHIVE 6.1

Version 6.1 is primarily a bug fix distribution; some helpful features were also added to the fluxcal program.

Bugs Fixed: The following issues were resolved:

  • 'make distcheck' failure in Util/tempo
  • psrsh 'edit' does not separate multiple values
  • failure when loading PSRFITS DIG_STAT HDU (NLEV)
  • configure does not set $prefix by default
  • Intel MKL FFT library failure during matrix template matching

Flux Calibration: The fluxcal program now supports a verbose mode (fluxcal -v), in which it prints information about the configuration files that are used, the standard candle that was chosen, and the mean system equivalent flux density. It also supports the option (fluxcal -f) to fix the type and name attributes of the input archives, based on the coordinates of the known standard candles.

New Features in PSRCHIVE 6.0

A number of features have been added and bugs have been fixed since version 5.2 was released, including:

Compilation: Mac OS X is now fully supported. Also, the third-party SLALIB routines used by PSRCHIVE are now distributed with the source code.

Archive Editing: The editor program, psredit, can access parameters via their PSRFITS definition name.

Plotting: The plotting program, psrplot, has had a number of new features added, including the ability to overlay plots, set the viewport dimensions, and customize labels using any valid psredit parameter name.

PSRFITS: The PSRFITS definition has been made more compatible with the Virtual Observatory conventions for parameter names.