Molsoft: Molonglo Telescope Observing Software

This repository contains high-level observing software used at the refurbished Molonglo Observatory Synthesis Radio Telescope (MOST), that was developed as part of the UTMOST project.

Authors

The software is primarily developed by Fabian Jankowski. For more information feel free to contact me via: fabian.jankowski at manchester.ac.uk.

Further authors are:

• Aditya Parthasarathy

• Wael Farah

• Chris Flynn

Citation

If you make use of the software, please add a link to this repository and cite our paper: Jankowski et al. 2019

For the BibTeX citation, see the CITATION.bib file.

Requirements

• PSRCHIVE and its Python bindings

• ATNF pulsar catalogue (>= 1.54)

All the other requirements are automatically installed via Python’s pip.

Installation

The software is packaged as a Python module, so it can be installed via pip. You can also install a local version from the git checkout by running make production.

Documentation

Online documentation for users and an API reference for developers is available on the following website: online documentation.