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David Keitel
PyFstat
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Update README.md regarding ephemerides
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### Ephemeris installation
The scripts require a path to ephemeris files in order to use the
`lalpulsar.ComputeFstat`
module. This can either be specified when initialising
The scripts require paths to earth and sun ephemeris files in order to use the
`lalpulsar.ComputeFstat`
module. This should be automatically picked up from
the $LALPULSAR_DATADIR environment variable, defaulting to the
00-40-DE421 ephemerides or 00-19-DE421 as a backup.
Alternatively, these can either be manually specified when initialising
each search (as one of the arguments), or simply by placing a file
`~/.pyfstat.conf`
into your home directory which looks like
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earth_ephem = '/home/<USER>/lalsuite-install/share/lalpulsar/earth00-19-DE421.dat.gz'
sun_ephem = '/home/<USER>/lalsuite-install/share/lalpulsar/sun00-19-DE421.dat.gz'
```
here, we use the default ephemeris files provided with
`lalsuite`
.
Paths set in this way will take precedence over the environment variable
.
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