From sransom at nrao.edu  Mon Jul  8 13:37:51 2024
From: sransom at nrao.edu (Scott Ransom)
Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2024 13:37:51 -0400
Subject: [Psrfits] script that checks PSRFITS files?
Message-ID: <0bbd4360-33dd-4940-9ad4-925752ed23ad@nrao.edu>

Hi All,

At GBO we think we have found some possible large-scale corruption of a 
bunch of archival pulsar data.? We are trying to figure out exactly what 
is corrupted, and what we have backups of.

For the former, I was going to write some kind of fairly simple python 
script (likely using the fitsio module, which is really fast) that 
checked key parameters of fold-mode and search-mode PSRFITS data to see 
if it was OK.

Has anyone written anything like this already?? If so, can I use it as a 
starting point?

Thanks,

Scott

PS: I do know about fitsverify, which is super useful.? But I was hoping 
for something a little bit more specific (for instance, checking to see 
if SUBINT row times made sense).



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