(require a compiled and installed synthlisa, with the path set) compare-simulators.py takes as arguments an XML challenge file produced with synthLISA and an XML challenge file produced with the LISA simulator; converts the synthLISA fractional-frequency X data to phase, and the LISA simulator equivalent strain X data to phase, and outputs the two spectra together with a theoretical curve for X noise. The results are stored in file tdispectrum.xml plotxml.py plot spectra from a lisaXML file