abhisrkckl/chimera: chimera v0.1.0

The chimera pipeline is used to create wideband TOAs from CHIME pulsar observations (fold mode data). CHIMERA stands for The CHIME Reduction Algorithm. This software release accompanies Agazie et al (https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.16668). Summary This pipeline takes CHIME fold mode Timer archives as input and produces wide-band TOAs. The processing steps are as follows: If the input metafile is given, only the files listed there will be processed. Otherwise, all files present in the input dir will be processed. For each input data file: try Convert coherence mode data to Stokes mode. Run RFI excision Convert from Timer to PSRFITS format Scrunch in Frequency and Time, Update DM (Based on the config file) if not --skip_pzap and zap_chans are given in config file Remove bad channels (Defined in the config file) If any of the above processing steps are unsuccessful, skip that file and proceed. if not --skip_toagen and the template is given in the config file Create TOA file from successfully processed data files. (Skip files if TOA generation fails.) Validate TOA file.