Skip to content

Measurements

FLITS reports measurements from the current prepared session state.

Core outputs

The measurement workflow can report:

  • fluence in Jy ms, when an SEFD is available
  • peak flux density in Jy, when an SEFD is available
  • event duration in ms
  • spectral extent in MHz
  • peak MJD
  • one-dimensional Gaussian fits for selected burst regions

Calibration note

Flux and fluence require calibration information. If FLITS can identify a known observing setup, it may provide a default SEFD. Otherwise use the generic preset or specify an SEFD explicitly.

Without an SEFD, FLITS can still report selection- and timing-related outputs, but not calibrated flux-density values.

Provenance matters

Measurements depend on:

  • the event window
  • the off-pulse definition
  • the selected spectral extent
  • the applied channel mask
  • the current DM and reduced analysis state

Interpret exported values together with the stored provenance, not as context-free numbers.

Event duration versus burst width

The event duration is the manually selected event-window span. It is useful session metadata, but it is not automatically the same thing as a model-independent burst-duration estimate or the same thing as a fitted component width.