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., submitted to MNRAS (arXiV and publisher links to follow, when available.)

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.

The associated paper is available on ArXiv at: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2312.12165