by Lawrence Toomey
CSIRO’s Data Access Portal (DAP)) contains the most comprehensive archive of pulsar data globally, with over 4 Petabytes from Murriyang, the CSIRO Parkes radio telescope available for download. The DAP is Virtual Observatory compatible and can be queried using VO tools such as TOPCAT). This TOPCAT image is a Hammer-Aitoff projection in Galactic coordinates of the published observations from the MEDUSA pulsar backend for the 2024OCT semester (the period October 1st, 2024, to March 31st, 2025). Approximately 2-3TB of new pulsar data are added to the archive each day. Access to new data is restricted to project teams during the statutory 18-month embargo period, thereafter the data become public.
* Down 5% from last semester (2024APRS)