CHANGELOG.md

19 Sep 2022

• Initial commit (Code from Lulu)

06 Oct 2022

• Preliminary pipeline

13 Oct 2022

• Session class for storing global state
• run_cmd function
• Process files one-by-one (Takes up too much memory otherwise)
• Popen instead of os.system
• Command line arguments and config file
• Added license

27 Oct 2022

• Minor bug fixes
• Save TOAs to tim file

07 Nov 2022

• Catch JSON errors
• Update README

08 Nov 2022

• Skip already processed files
• Validation tests for input files and directories
• Validation tests for intermediate files
• Rearrange code into multiple files
• Input metafile
• Improve logging

09 Nov 2022

• Create TOAs one by one (better error handling)
• Remove test mode temporarily (it was broken)
• Reprocess all input files with --reprocess option
• Validate final output and TOA file
• Validate config
• zap_chans in the config file should be a list instead of string.
• Update README
• Created CHANGELOG

10 Nov 2022

• Rename "model_portrait" to "template"
• Skip post-scrunch zapping with --skip_pzap option
• Skip TOA generation with --skip_toagen option
• Skip TOA generation if template is not given.
• Skip post-scrunch zapping if no channels are flagged (zap_chans)
• --clean option to remove intermediate files.
• Update FITS headers (PL_CMD and PL_LVL)

18 Nov 2022

• Convert into an installable python package.
• Use loguru instead of astropy.logging
• More information in summary file
• Rename package to chimera-pulsar and script to chimerawb
• Check required commands before starting the processing
• Added installation instructions

30 Nov 2020

• Changed datafile prefix to be more general