Scintools

SCINTOOLS (SCINtillation TOOLS) is a package for the analysis and simulation of pulsar scintillation data. This code can be used for: processing observed dynamic spectra, computing secondary spectra and ACFs, measuring scintillation arcs, simulating dynamic spectra, and modelling pulsar transverse velocities through scintillation arcs or diffractive timescales.

• This is currently considered a pre-release only
• Comes with absolutely no warranty
• Free software under MIT license
• Limited documentation available here
• Usage examples located in scintools/examples
• Please email Daniel Reardon for further questions relating to usage: dreardon@swin.edu.au

Referencing

If your work makes use of Scintools, please cite Reardon et al. (2020) and provide a url link to this github page. If utilising scintools for scintillation timescale and/or bandwidth measurements via the autocorrelation function, also cite Reardon et al. (2019) . If you use the ththmod.py module, cite Baker et al. (2021) . If using the electromagnetic simulation software (Simulation class in scint_sim.py), also cite Coles et al. (2010)

Below is a list of works that use Scintools:

• "Precision orbital dynamics from interstellar scintillation arcs for PSR J0437-4715", Reardon et al. (2020)
• "Interstellar Interferometry: Precise Curvature Measurement from Pulsar Secondary Spectra", Baker et al. (2021)
• "Scintillation Arcs in Pulsar B0450-18", Rickett et al. (2021)
• "ASKAP observations of multiple rapid scintillators reveal a degrees-long plasma filament", Wang et al. (2021)
• "A supernova remnant association for the fast-moving pulsar PSR J0908-4913", Johnston et al. (2021)
• "A Study of Birefringent Scintillation Towards the Millisecond Pulsar J0437-4715", Abdul Hamid (2021)
• "Probing the local interstellar medium with scintillometry of the bright pulsar B1133+16", McKee et al. (2021)
• "Modelling annual scintillation arc variations in PSR J1643-1224 using the Large European Array for Pulsars", Mall et al. (2022)
• "Interstellar Scintillation of PSR J2048-1616", Chen et al. (2022) (not explicitly credited)
• "Orbital dynamics and extreme scattering event properties from long-term scintillation observations of PSR J1603-7202", Walker et al. (2022)