POLYCO.DAT The polynomial ephemerides are written to file 'polyco.dat'. Entries are listed sequentially within the file. The file format is: Line Columns Item ---- ------- ----------------------------------- 1 1-10 Pulsar Name 11-19 Date (dd-mmm-yy) 20-31 UTC (hhmmss.ss) 32-51 TMID (MJD) 52-72 DM 74-79 Doppler shift due to earth motion (10^-4) 80-86 Log_10 of fit rms residual in periods 2 1-20 Reference Phase (RPHASE) 21-38 Reference rotation frequency (F0) 39-43 Observatory number 44-49 Data span (minutes) 50-54 Number of coefficients 55-75 Observing frequency (MHz) 76-80 Binary phase 3* 1-25 Coefficient 1 (COEFF(1)) 26-50 Coefficient 2 (COEFF(2)) 51-75 Coefficient 3 (COEFF(3)) * Subsequent lines have three coefficients each, up to NCOEFF The pulse phase and frequency at time T are then calculated as: DT = (T-TMID)*1440 PHASE = RPHASE + DT*60*F0 + COEFF(1) + DT*COEFF(2) + DT^2*COEFF(3) + .... FREQ(Hz) = F0 + (1/60)*(COEFF(2) + 2*DT*COEFF(3) + 3*DT^2*COEFF(4) + ....)