ALERT, the Apertif Lofar Exploration of the Radio Transient Sky, will investigate the Northern Sky with unprecedented speed and precision, to determine the nature of some of the most powerful flashes and explosions in the Universe.

FRB 191108 (DR1.2)


Data accompanying A bright, high rotation-measure FRB that skewers the M33 halo by Liam Connor and team (ADS | arXiv PDF).

Raw time-frequency data in standard FITS format is
available for the combined Synthesized Beam 37, and the 12 individual Tied Array Beams (6 GB total).
The FRB is visible 1.7s into the 7s file.

A polarisation-calibrated numpy array of a zoomed-in part of the same synthesis beam data is available as a 50 MB binary .npy file.

The direction-dependently calibrated mosaic image of the field is available as a 100 MB FITS file.

This project received funding from the European Research Council under the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP/2007-2013) / ERC Grant Agreement n. 617199, from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO-M 614.061.613), from the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy ASTRON, from the Netherlands Research School for Astronomy NOVA (ARTS), and from the Netherlands eScience Center (ASDI 027.015.G09).