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#395 PSRFITS I/O routines add noise to TEMPO polyco REF_MJD

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Willem van Straten
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2014-11-26
2014-11-26
Willem van Straten
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There is a problem in how psrchive reads in psrfits files, specifically how it reads TEMPO1 polyco’s. Random erroneous digits are added after the 10 specified digits in the fractional part of the REF_MJD, which leads to jumps during observations when it switches to a new polyco-block.

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  • Willem van Straten

    Willem van Straten - 2014-11-26
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-There is a problem in how psrchive reads in the psrfits files, specifically how it reads TEMPO1 polyco’s. Random erroneous digits are added after the 10 specified digits in the fractional part of the REF_MJD, which leads to jumps during observations when it switches to a new polyco-block.
+There is a problem in how psrchive reads in psrfits files, specifically how it reads TEMPO1 polyco’s. Random erroneous digits are added after the 10 specified digits in the fractional part of the REF_MJD, which leads to jumps during observations when it switches to a new polyco-block.
    • status: open --> closed-fixed
     

  • Willem van Straten

    Willem van Straten - 2014-11-26

    Lucas Guillemot and Ismaël Cognard detected this problem and provided a patch that fixes the bug.

     

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