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NAME

       harminv - extract mode frequencies from time-series data

SYNOPSIS

       harminv [OPTION]... [freq-min-freq-max]...

DESCRIPTION

       harminv  is  a program designed to solve the problem of "harmonic inversion": given a time
       series consisting  of  a  sum  of  sinusoids  ("modes"),  extract  their  frequencies  and
       amplitudes.   It  can  also  handle the case of exponentially-decaying sinusoids, in which
       case it extracts their decay rates as well.

       harminv is often able to achieve  much  greater  accuracy  and  robustness  than  Fourier-
       transform methods, essentially because it assumes a specific form for the input.

       It  uses  a  low-storage  "filter-diagonalization  method"  (FDM),  as  described in V. A.
       Mandelshtam and H. S. Taylor, "Harmonic inversion of time signals," J.  Chem.  Phys.  107,
       6756 (1997).  See also erratum, ibid 109, 4128 (1998).

INPUT

       harminv  reads in a sequence of whitespace-separated real or complex numbers from standard
       input, as well as command-line arguments  indicating  one  or  more  frequency  ranges  to
       search,  and  outputs  the modes that it extracts from the data.  (It preferentially finds
       modes in the frequency range you specify, but may sometimes find additional modes  outside
       of that range.)  The data should correspond to equally-spaced time intervals, but there is
       no constraint on the number of points.

       Complex numbers in the input should be expressed in the  format  RE+IMi  (no  whitespace).
       Otherwise,  whitespace is ignored.  Also, comments beginning with "#" and extending to the
       end of the line are ignored.

       A typical invocation is something like

           harminv -t 0.02 1-5 < input.dat

       which  reads  a  sequence  of  samples,  spaced  at  0.02  time  intervals  (in  ms,  say,
       corresponding  to  50  kHz),  and searches for modes in the frequency range 1-5 kHz.  (See
       below on units.)

OUTPUT

       harminv writes six comma-delimited columns to standard output, one  line  for  each  mode:
       frequency,  decay  constant,  Q,  amplitude, phase, and error.  Each mode corresponds to a
       function of the form:

       amplitude * exp[-i (2 pi frequency t - phase) - decay t]

       Here, i is sqrt(-1), t is the time (see below for units), and the other parameters in  the
       output columns are:

       frequency
              The  frequency of the mode.  If you don't recognize that from the expression above,
              you should recall Euler's formula: exp(i x) = cos(x) + i  sin(x).   Note  that  for
              complex data, there is a distinction between positive and negative frequencies.

       decay constant
              The  exponential  decay  constant,  indicated  by  decay in the above formula.  The
              inverse of this is often called the "lifetime" of  the  mode.  The  "half-life"  is
              ln(2)/decay.

       Q      A  conventional, dimensionless expression of the decay lifetime: Q = pi |frequency|
              / decay.  Q, which stands for "quality factor", is the number of  periods  for  the
              "energy" in the mode (the squared amplitude) to decay by exp(-2 pi).  Equivalently,
              if you look at the power spectrum (|Fourier transform|^2), 1/Q  is  the  fractional
              width of the peak at half maximum.

       amplitude
              The  (real,  positive)  amplitude  of  the  sinusoids.   The  amplitude (and phase)
              information generally seems to be  less  accurate  than  the  frequency  and  decay
              constant.

       phase  The phase shift (in radians) of the sinusoids, as given by the formula above.

       error  A  crude  estimate  of  the relative error in the (complex) frequency.  This is not
              really an error bar, however, so you should treat it more  as  a  figure  of  merit
              (smaller is better) for each mode.

SPURIOUS MODES

       Typically,  harminv  will  find  a number of spurious solutions in addition to the desired
       solutions, especially if your data are noisy.  Such solutions are characterized  by  large
       errors,  small amplitudes, and/or small Q (large decay rates / broad linewidths).  You can
       omit these from the output by the error/Q/amplitude screening options defined below.

       By default, modes with error > 0.1 and Q < 10 are automatically omitted, but it is  likely
       that you will need to set stricter limits.

UNITS

       The frequency (and decay) values, both input and output, are specified in units of 1/time,
       where the units of time are determined by the  sampling  interval  dt  (the  time  between
       consecutive inputs).  dt is by default 1, unless you specify it with the -t dt option.

       In other words, pick some units (e.g. ms in the example above) and use them to express the
       time step.  Then, be consistent and use the inverse of those units (e.g. kHz =  1/ms)  for
       frequency.

       Note that the frequency is the usual 1/period definition; it is not the angular frequency.

OPTIONS

       -h     Display help on the command-line options and usage.

       -V     Print the version number and copyright info for harminv.

       -v     Enable verbose output, printed to standard output as comment lines (starting with a
              "#" character).  Also, any "#" comments in the input are echoed to the output.

       -T     Specify period-ranges instead of frequency-ranges on the command line (in units  of
              time  corresponding  to  those specified by -t).  The output is still frequency and
              not period, however.

       -w     Specify angular frequencies instead of frequencies, and  output  angular  frequency
              instead of frequency.  (Angular frequency is frequency multiplied by 2 pi).

       -n     Flip  the  sign of the frequency (and phase) convention used in harminv.  (The sign
              of the frequency is only important if you have complex-valued input data, in  which
              case the positive and negative frequency amplitudes can differ.)

       -t dt  Specify the sampling interval dt; this determines the units of time used throughout
              the input and output.  Defaults to 1.0.

       -d d   Specify the spectral "density" d  to  search  for  modes,  where  a  density  of  1
              indicates  the  usual  Fourier  resolution.  That is, the number of basis functions
              (which sets an upper bound on the number of modes) is given by d times (freq-max  -
              freq-min)  times  dt times the number of samples in your dataset.  A maximum of 300
              is used, however, to prevent the matrices from getting too big  (you  can  force  a
              larger number with -f, below).

              Note  that  the  frequency resolution of the outputs is not limited by the spectral
              density, and can generally be  much  greater  than  the  Fourier  resolution.   The
              density determines how many modes, at most, to search for, and in some sense is the
              density with which the bandwidth is initially "searched" for modes.

              The default density is 0.0, which means that  the  number  of  basis  functions  is
              determined  by -f (which defaults to 100).  This often corresponds to a much larger
              density than the usual Fourier resolution, but the resulting singularities  in  the
              system matrices are automatically removed by harminv.

       -f nf  Specify  a  lower  bound  nf on the number of spectral basis functions (defaults to
              100), setting a lower bound on the number of modes to search for.  This  option  is
              often  a  more  convenient way to specify the number of basis functions than the -d
              option, above, which is why it is the default.

              -f also allows you to employ more  than  300  basis  functions,  but  careful:  the
              computation time scales as O(N nf) + O(nf^3), where N is the number of samples, and
              very large matrices can also have degraded accuracy.

       -s sort
              Specify   how   the   outputs    are    sorted,    where    sort    is    one    of
              frequency/error/Q/decay/amplitude.   (Only  the  first  character of sort matters.)
              All sorts are in ascending order.  The default is to sort by frequency.

       -e err Omit any modes with error (see above) greater than  err  times  the  largest  error
              among the computed modes.  Defaults to no limit.

       -E err Omit any modes with error (see above) greater than err.  Defaults to 0.1.

       -F     Omit  any  modes with frequencies outside the specified range.  (Such modes are not
              necessarily spurious, however.)

       -a amp Omit any modes with amplitude (see above) less than amp times the largest amplitude
              among the computed modes.  Defaults to no limit.

       -A amp Omit any modes with amplitude (see above) less than amp.  Defaults to no limit.

       -Q q   Omit any modes with |Q| (see above) less than q.  Defaults to 10.

BUGS

       Send bug reports to S. G. Johnson, stevenj@alum.mit.edu.

AUTHORS

       Written  by  Steven  G.  Johnson.   Copyright  (c)  2005 by the Massachusetts Institute of
       Technology.