Scripts for simulating the effects of polarization purity in pulsar timing in the paper Intrinsic Instrumental Polarization and High-Precision Pulsar Timing (arXiv)

• psrchive, follow http://psrchive.sourceforge.net/third/install.shtml

The profiles of the PTA MSPs are in their respective directories. To create a useable template, run:

pam -r 0.5 -e rr <filename>.SS
pdv -t <filename>.rr | sed '1 d' | awk '{print $4, $5, $6, $7}' > template.dat

plot fits:

psrplot -p flux <filename>.fits
/xs

simulated MJDs:

tempo2 -gr fake -ndobs 1 -nobsd 1 -randha y -start 50000 -end 50500 -rms auto -f <par file>
./parseTempo2fakeSim.py -f <simulate file>

beam2fits error: 256/512/1024/2048

vim PSRBeam/useful.inc
line 3: np=256 or 512 or 1024 or 2048
make beam2fits

generate par files:

psrcat -r <PULSAR NAME> > <par file>

tempo2 plot residuals:

tempo2 -gr plk -f J1603.par <tim file>

• 256:
  • J1824-2452
  • J1939+2134
• 512:
  • J0613-0200
  • J1045-4509
  • J1600-3053
  • J1643-1224
  • J1732-5049
  • J1909-3744
  • J2129-5721
• 1024:
  • J0437-4715
  • J0711-6830
  • J1024-0719
  • J1603-7202
  • J1713+0747
  • J1730-2304
  • J1744-1134
  • J1857+0943
  • J2124-3358
• 2048:
  • J1022+1001
  • J2145-0750