FAST Multibeam FRB Search Pipeline

This is a pipeline developed for deployment at the FAST radio telescope in the Guizhou Province in China. It uses the GPU based Heimdall code to search for transient signals

How to run

multibeam.py takes input from the command line. Here are the parameters that must be specified for each group of beam files:

  • -FRB_file (Specify name of directory where you want the FRB candidate files (.cand) to be located - note that this directory will be made in the current working directory)
  • -d (directory where beam files are located)
  • -parallel (Heimdall: enable parallel processing)
  • -dm_min (Heimdall: minimum DM)
  • -dm_max (Heimdall: maximum DM)