PSR B1937+21 Giant Pulse Baseband Data Release

This is a companion dataset to go with the publication, <strong>"Using Giant Pulses to Measure the Impulse Response of the Interstellar Medium"</strong> by <em>Mahajan and van Kerkwijk, (2023). </em>https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.13274 The data files contain the baseband snippets PSR B1937+21 giant pulses found using the giant pulse search technique described in the paper. <strong>Requirements</strong><br> To load and work with the data files, you will need the Python package: pulsarbat v0.0.9<br> We have provided an <em>environment.yml</em> that can be used to conveniently create a conda environment to work with the data. <strong>Usage</strong><br> An example script is provided (<em>script.py</em>) which shows how to load the data in Python. <strong>Data Format</strong><br> The data files are zipped in <em>B1937GPs.zip</em>. The giant pulse data was serialized using Python's <em>pickle</em> library. Each file contains<br> a list of <em>pulsarbat.DualPolarizationSignal</em> objects from the <em>pulsarbat </em>package. There are 38 data files with names: <em>B1937GPs/B1937GPs_{MJD}_{freq}.pb</em> <em>MJD </em>refers to the date of the observation <em>freq </em>refers to the center frequency of the band in MHz. There were two observations at MJD 58245 and MJD 58298, and data from 19 contiguous frequency bands is provided (thus, a total of 38 files). The md5 checksums for all files is provided in <em>md5_checksums.txt</em>.