Analysing Pulsar Data

The subpackage stingray.pulse implements a set of tools for analysing (X-ray) pulsar data, in particular periodicity searches.

Many of these methods are generally applicable for searchsing for and analysing strictly periodic signals (with a possible frequency derivative) in the presence of instrumental noise.

Below, we show examples of how this functionality can be implemented and used in practice.

• Simulate a dataset
• Pulsation search with epoch folding.
• Z-squared search
• Thresholding
• Fit peak with Sinc-squared and Gaussian functions
• Phaseogram
  • Examples of interactive phaseograms
• Phase Dispersion Minimization in Stingray
  • Simulate a dataset
  • Pulsation search with Phase Dispersion Minimization