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[ascl:1110.011] Pacerman: Polarisation Angle CorrEcting Rotation Measure ANalysis

Pacerman, written in IDL, is a new method to calculate Faraday rotation measure maps from multi-frequency polarisation angle data. In order to solve the so called n-pi-ambiguity problem which arises from the observationally ambiguity of the polarisation angle which is only determined up to additions of n times pi, where n is an integer, we suggest using a global scheme. Instead of solving the n-pi-ambiguity for each data point independently, our algorithm, which we chose to call Pacerman solves the n-pi-ambiguity for a high signal-to-noise region "democratically" and uses this information to assist computations in adjacent low signal-to-noise areas.

Code site:
https://wwwmpa.mpa-garching.mpg.de/~kdolag/Pacerman/
Described in:
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2005MNRAS.358..726D
Bibcode:
2011ascl.soft10011D
Preferred citation method:

At the first use of the Pacerman acronym, a footnote to the Pacerman web-site (http://www.mpa-garching.mpg.de/~kdolag/Pacerman), plus a citation to https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2005MNRAS.358..726D


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