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It would be nice to have access to the fdopnew and isspecavg arrays in the norm_sspec function for the purpose of more in-depth arc asymmetry analyses outside of simply plotting. It's easy enough to modify the source code to obtain them, but it would be nice if this was an existing feature.

I was wondering if the formalism used within scintools is able to also provide a measurement of the scintillation drift rate. This seems to be a relatively interesting value if able to be constrained, since it links directly to the refractive scattering angle.

I admit to not having carefully read through the implementation here, but perhaps it is something better calculated directly from the ACF? My understanding is that "The proper measure of dt/dν would be the slope of the line joining the points on the ellipse with the highest correlation at a given frequency offset." (Bhat et al. 1998). Is this feasible?

numpy.distutils has been deprecated and even removed from more recent versions of numpy.

https://numpy.org/doc/stable/reference/distutils_status_migration.html

The above link provides recommendations for transitioning away from this module, but for now, requirements.txt and setup.py should prevent the newer versions of numpy from being used.