The RATT PARROT

This is the companion website for the paper “The RATT PARROT: serendipitous discovery of a peculiarly scintillating pulsar in MeerKAT imaging observations of the Great Saturn–Jupiter Conjunction of 2020. I. Dynamic imaging and data analysis” by Smirnov et al. (2024) MNRAS.

The Saturn-Jupiter Conjunction of 2020

This is an animation of the original PARROT discovery

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Data access

The raw observational data is available via the SARAO archive, under proposal ID SSV-20200715-SA-01.

Data products associated with the paper are available via https://doi.org/10.48479/shtp-2015.

Recipes for data reduction are available via the parrot stew recipes repository, specifically the parrot1 branch. See the repository README file for details.