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Pulsar Applications of the Caltech Parkes Swinburne Baseband Processing System

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Willem van Straten ,
Matthew Britton ,
Matthew Bailes ,
Stuart Anderson  and
Shri Kulkarni
Willem van Straten
Affiliation:
Centre for Astrophysics & Supercomputing, Swinburne University of TechnologyMail 31, PO Box 218 Hawthorn, Victoria 3122, Australia
Matthew Britton
Affiliation:
Centre for Astrophysics & Supercomputing, Swinburne University of TechnologyMail 31, PO Box 218 Hawthorn, Victoria 3122, Australia
Matthew Bailes
Affiliation:
Centre for Astrophysics & Supercomputing, Swinburne University of TechnologyMail 31, PO Box 218 Hawthorn, Victoria 3122, Australia
Stuart Anderson
Affiliation:
Division of Physics, Mathematics, and Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, Mail Code 220-47 Pasadena, California 91125, USA
Shri Kulkarni
Affiliation:
Division of Physics, Mathematics, and Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, Mail Code 220-47 Pasadena, California 91125, USA

Abstract

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The Caltech-Parkes-Swinburne Recorder (CPSR) was installed at the Parkes Radio-telescope in August of 1998. It is capable of continuously two-bit quadrature-sampling a 20 MHz bandpass in two polarizations, though other configurations are possible. Since its successful installation, over 17 Terabytes of observational data have been recorded. These data were processed using the Swinburne Baseband Processing System (SBPS), a suite of data management and reduction software executed using a Beowulf-style cluster of high-performance workstations. A description of CPSR and SBPS is presented herein, followed by a brief presentation of some results from the past year of observations, and an outline of possible future uses of the system.

Type
Part 3. Studies of Radio Emission
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 177: Pulsar Astronomy - 2000 and Beyond , 2000 , pp. 283 - 284
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2000

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