smurfs 1.0.4

Smart UseR Frequency analySer, a fast and easy to use frequency analyser.

SMURFS

SMURFS (SMart UseR Frequency analySer) is a simple program, that allows for a quick statistical analysis of variable stars using the LombScargle algorithm. It also allows for "splitting" such a dataset into equally sized chunks, to perform a time dependend analysis of the frequencies.

SMURFS is developed in Python3, using optimized scientific libraries like numpy, scipy and astropy.

Prerequisits

It is assumed that git,python3 and pip are installed. If not, follow the installation instructions for git, python and pip.

Installation

It is recommended to create a new virtualenvironment.

cd SMURFS/
python3 -m venv venv/
source venv/bin/activate

Afterwarts, simply install it using pip

pip install smurfs

Documentation

Full documenation is available here

Features

SMURFS provides various nice to have features, setting it apart from common frequency analysers. These include

• Python only. No more Fortran, IDL or other more obfuscating languages
• Fast runs due to the usage of optimized libraries, including numpy, scipy and astropy, dedicated to scientific work
• Generates a full result set that can be used for further analysis, including spectra of the first and last frequency, spectrograms, machine readable results and so on.