Tempo modifications

This document lists, in reverse chronological order, some changes made to Tempo since version 11.000. However, significant major changes are not included here. Sorry about that. The Tempo reference manual is usually kept up-to-date, and you can get details of changes from the git log of the source code repository.

CVS Version (Nov 2013)
- Tempo2-style flag-based JUMPs are now implemented.
- -to (TIME) and -padd (PHASE) TOA flags are understood/applied.
- Add ability to parse Tempo2-format TOAs.
- Add FD log-polynomial model for non-dispersive frequency dependent delays.
- Assorted bug fixes.
Version 12.000 (Jan 2010)
- Imported Tempo CVS repository into Sourceforge.
- Added autoconf/automake based build system.
- Add -D command line option to output fit design matrix.
- util/ subdirectory contains potentially useful additional utility programs.
- Added DMX model for piecewise-constant DM variation.
- Added command-line based polyco generation mode (-Z).
- Add annual-orbital parallax to DD binary model.
- Apply JUMPs in the topocentric frame by default.
- Assorted small changes and bug fixes.
Version 11.005 (May 2000)
- (Includes contributions and fixes from Z. Arzoumanian, R. Dodson, A. Lommen, C. Cutler, E. Splaver, R. Manchester, D. Nice).
- Added new binary model BTX, an extension of the BT model: uses binary frequency (FB) and its derivatives (FB_x) instead of binary period; allows many derivatives of orbit size (XDOT_x); allows instantaneous 'jumps' in binary frequency (FBJ_x, TFBJ_x).
- Added dynamic memory allocation. To override default max number of TOAs or parameters use -m or -l, e.g., "tempo 0833.a -m 200000" for up to 200000 TOAs. If max number of TOAs is exceeded, tempo will read through the entire TOA file(s), find the total number of TOAs, re-allocate memory on the fly, and start again. (This is less efficient than specifying the right number in the first place.)
- Added NTOA (number of toas) and TRES (residual) to output xxx.par.
- Added output of "information" lines. Cards starting with "INFO" may be included in the TOA section of the input file. If such cards are present, an ASCII file "info.tmp" is written with one line per TOA. Each line lists the information on the most recent "INFO" card. This is useful for separating different subsets of data in post-Tempo processing. For example, if a Tempo file contains TOAs from two data recording systems, put card "INFO 1" before TOAs from system 1 and "INFO 2" before TOAs from system 2. Plotting programs can then read "info.tmp" and determine which TOAs came from which system. "INFO" cards may have any mix of ASCII characters, including spaces.
- Added -c option to force iteration even if the rms changes by less than 1 part in 1e4 (the usual stop criterion).
- Added "EMAX xxx" and "EMAP yyy" to ignore TOAs with error higher than xxx microseconds or yyy periods.
- Re-wrote command line parser to allow flexible ordering of options and parameters as well as combination of options (e.g., "tempo -oz" for "tempo -o -z").
- Improved accuracy of Solar System Shapiro delay calculation. (Formerly used circular model for Earth's orbit.)
- Allow Princeton-style TOAs with non-blank column 2.
- Reworked internal indexing of parameters to ease future addition of new parameters.
- Use higher-precision MJDs internally when calculating of polyco.dat ephemerides. Also treat the precision of polyco.dat reference times with more care, eliminating several-hundred nanosecond jitter between sets of polynomial coefficients.
- Numerous minor bug fixes.
Version 11.004 (October 1998)
- Added option '-no xxx' to write pulse numbers to file xxx.
- Added option '-ni xxx' to read pulse numbers from file xxx, used instead of internally calculated pulse numbers
- Added option '-j' to write offset values to the output parameter file (with form "JUMP_nn").
- Read in and interpret "JUMP_nn" header parameter.
- Added 'GAIN' header command to vary the fraction of calculated parameter corrections added to parameters on each iteration.
- Fixed bug in DDGR fit for MTOT in systems dominated by Shapiro delay.
- Allow 'INCLUDE' cards in time.dat file.
- Fixed bug in composite proper motion uncertainty calculation.
- Incorporate covariances where appropriate in uncertainties of calculated parameters (proper motion, mass function, ....)
- Added output of calculated binary parameters to parameter file.
- Minor bug fixes and improvements.
- tdbgen.f -- added byte reversal for bigendian machines.
Version 11.003 (May 1998)
- Minor bug fixes and improvements.
- More glitches allowed.
- TASC parameter allowed for binary model BT.
Version 11.002 (March 1998)
- Added new binary model "ELL1" for low-eccentricity orbits. Instead of OMEGA and E, the model fits for Laplace parameters EPS1 (=E*sin(OMEGA)) and EPS2 (=E*cos(OMEGA)). Input parameters OMEGA and E will be converted to EPS1 and EPS2 if necessary. Time of ascending node (T0ASC) must be used instead of time of periastron passage (T0). Derivatives EPS1DOT and EPS2DOT may also be fit.
- Model "DD+" renamed "MSS" (for "Main Sequence Star"). Second derivative of OMEGA and X added.
- POSEPOCH implemented - epoch (MJD) of position. Defaults to PEPOCH.
- Control parameters START and FINISH added. On input, if the flag is set, they delimit the MJD range of the fit. On output (in the .par file) they give the actual data range fitted.
- Improved determination of glitch epoch.
- Rms fit error added to polyco.dat.
- Command line option -h added.
Version 11.001 (Jan-Feb 1998)
- Allow fitting in ecliptic coordinates (BETA, LAMBDA, PMBETA, PMLAMBDA).
- Fixed year-2000 bugs.
- Fixed minor bugs found under compilation by g77 and Microsoft Fortran.

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