MASER: A Science Ready Toolbox for Low Frequency Radio Astronomy
Abstract
MASER (Measurements, Analysis, and Simulation of Emission in the Radio range) is a comprehensive infrastructure dedicated to time-dependent low frequency radio astronomy (up to about 50 MHz). The main radio sources observed in this spectral range are the Sun, the magnetized planets (Earth, Jupiter, Saturn), and our Galaxy, which are observed either from ground or space. Ground observatories can capture high resolution data streams with a high sensitivity. Conversely, space-borne instruments can observe below the ionospheric cut-off (at about 10 MHz) and can be placed closer to the studied object. Several tools have been developed in the last decade for sharing space physics data. Data visualization tools developed by various institutes are available to share, display and analyse space physics time series and spectrograms. The MASER team has selected a sub-set of those tools and applied them to low frequency radio astronomy. MASER also includes a Python software library for reading raw data from agency archives.
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@article{arxiv.1902.00300,
title = {MASER: A Science Ready Toolbox for Low Frequency Radio Astronomy},
author = {Baptiste Cecconi and Alan Loh and Pierre Le Sidaner and Renaud Savalle and Xavier Bonnin and Quynh Nhu Nguyen and Sonny Lion and Albert Shih and Stéphane Aicardi and Philippe Zarka and Corentin Louis and Andrée Coffre and Laurent Lamy and Laurent Denis and Jean-Mathias Grießmeier and Jeremy Faden and Chris Piker and Nicolas André and Vincent Génot and Stéphane Erard and Joseph N Mafi and Todd A King and Jim Sky and Markus Demleitner},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1902.00300},
year = {2021}
}
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Submitted to Data Science Journal special issue after PV2018 conference