The Petabyte Project
Abstract
Transient radio sources, such as fast radio bursts, intermittent pulsars, and rotating radio transients, can offer a wealth of information regarding extreme emission physics as well as the intervening interstellar and/or intergalactic medium. Vital steps towards understanding these objects include characterizing their source populations and estimating their event rates across observing frequencies. However, previous efforts have been undertaken mostly by individual survey teams at disparate observing frequencies and telescopes, and with non-uniform algorithms for searching and characterization. The Petabyte Project (TPP) aims to address these issues by uniformly reprocessing data from several petabytes of radio transient surveys covering two decades of observing frequency (300 MHz-20 GHz). The TPP will provide robust event rate analyses, in-depth assessment of survey and pipeline completeness, as well as revealing discoveries from archival and ongoing radio surveys. We present an overview of TPP's processing pipeline, scope, and our potential to make new discoveries.
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@article{arxiv.2308.12432,
title = {The Petabyte Project},
author = {Evan F. Lewis and Sarah Burke-Spolaor and Maura McLaughlin and Duncan Lorimer and Kshitij Aggarwal and Devansh Agarwal and Joseph Kania and Nate Garver-Daniels and Joseph P. Glaser},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.12432},
year = {2023}
}
Comments
5 pages, 1 figure. Accepted for publication in Proceedings for IAU Symposium 369: The Dawn of Cosmology & Multi-Messenger Studies with Fast Radio Bursts