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DSPSR: Digital Signal Processing Software for Pulsar Astronomy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2013

W. van Straten  and
M. Bailes
W. van Straten*
Affiliation:
Swinburne University of Technology, PO Box 218, Hawthorn, VIC 3122, Australia
M. Bailes
Affiliation:
Swinburne University of Technology, PO Box 218, Hawthorn, VIC 3122, Australia
*
BCorresponding author. Email: vanstraten.willem@gmail.com
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dspsr is a high-performance, open-source, object-oriented, digital signal processing software library and application suite for use in radio pulsar astronomy. Written primarily in C++, the library implements an extensive range of modular algorithms that can optionally exploit both multiple-core processors and general-purpose graphics processing units. After over a decade of research and development, dspsr is now stable and in widespread use in the community. This paper presents a detailed description of its functionality, justification of major design decisions, analysis of phase-coherent dispersion removal algorithms, and demonstration of performance on some contemporary microprocessor architectures.

Keywords

methods: data analysispolarisationpulsars: generaltechniques: polarimetric

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Research Article
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Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia , Volume 28 , Issue 1 , 2011 , pp. 1 - 14
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Copyright © Astronomical Society of Australia 2011

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