Your: Your Unified Reader

TL;DR

Your Unified Reader is a Python library that standardizes data processing for different telescope data formats, simplifying transient search workflows and integrating advanced RFI mitigation techniques.

Contribution

It introduces a unified, user-friendly Python library that handles multiple data formats and incorporates state-of-the-art RFI filtering for transient radio astronomy data.

Findings

Supports multiple data formats with a single interface

Provides utilities for common data analysis tasks

Includes advanced RFI mitigation algorithms

Abstract

The advancement in signal processing and GPU based systems has enabled new transient detectors at various telescopes to perform much more sensitive searches than their predecessors. Typically the data output from the telescopes is in one of the two commonly used formats: psrfits and Sigproc filterbank. Software developed for transient searches often only works with one of these two formats, limiting their general applicability. Therefore, researchers have to write custom scripts to read/write the data in their format of choice before they can begin any data analysis relevant for their research. \textsc{Your} (Your Unified Reader) is a python-based library that unifies the data processing across multiple commonly used formats. \textsc{Your} implements a user-friendly interface to read and write in the data format of choice. It also generates unified metadata corresponding to the input data file for a quick understanding of observation parameters and provides utilities to perform common data analysis operations. \textsc{Your} also provides several state-of-the-art radio frequency interference mitigation (RFI) algorithms, which can now be used during any stage of data processing (reading, writing, etc.) to filter out artificial signals.