chime-frb-constants 2020.12

CHIME/FRB Constants

CHIME/FRB Constants

A pure-python, lightweight and zero dependency package to access constants used in the CHIME/FRB software projects.

Installation

pip install chime-frb-constants

Optional

If scipy is installed in the python environment, frb-constants will also expose the physical constants, otherwise it is set to None

import chime_frb_constants as constants

constants.phy_const

Usage

import chime_frb_constants as constants

print(constants.K_DM)
4149.377593360996

print(constants.phys_const.speed_of_light)
299792458.0

Changelog

2020.07

• Updated CHANNEL_BANDWIDTH_MHZ
• Fixed errors with FREQ
• Added optional physical constants from scipy

2020.06.3

• Fixed error with CHANNEL_BANDWIDTH_MHZ
• Change to SAMPLING_TIME_MS
• New constant SAMPLING_TIME_S

2020.06.2

• Added constants FREQ and FREQ_FREQ

2020.06

• Release on PYPI
• All constants are now uppercase
• All physical constants from scipy are not availaible anymore under constants.