Learner profile of a
Radio Astronomer
Noelle is a radio astronomer using PARKS, MEERKAT and GBT. In her research, she routinely utilises many skills, including:
- Reading, writing and editing Python code:
- Astropy, SciPy, argparse
- Consolidating Python 2 and Python 3 codes
- Extensive use of visualisation packages such as matplotlib and seaborn
- IPython and Jupyter notebooks
- Writing unit tests with pytest
- Data querying from PSRCHIVE – pulsar archive
- Most of the processing is already done
- HPC usage
- Lightweight jobs
- Using the job queue rather than interactive jobs
- VNC remote desktops