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Welcome to the NICERsoft wiki! This space is for documentation of the codes included in NICERsoft.

Scripts

The executable scripts in NICERsoft are contained in the scripts subdirectory, which should be in your path. Brief descriptions of the available scripts are below:

cr_cut.py : Apply a count rate cut to a NICER .evt file.

This code creates a binned lightcurve with a selectable bin size (default 16 s) and applies a rate cut on that lightcurve to make GTIs that exclude bins that exceed the threshold. It then applies that GTI to the event file to generate a new file with those time ranges filtered out.

psr_pipe.py : Process multiple ObsIDs of NICER data, applying filtering, making quicklook plots, and optionally adding PULSE_PHASE column.