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MASER (Measuring Analyzing & Simulating Emissions in Radio frequencies), a Toolbox for Low Frequency Radio Astronomy
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  • Baptiste Cecconi,
  • Alan Loh,
  • Pierre Le Sidaner,
  • Renaud Savalle,
  • Xavier Bonnin,
  • Quynh Nhu Nguyen,
  • Sonny Lion,
  • Albert Shih,
  • Stéphane Aicardi,
  • Philippe Zarka,
  • Corentin Louis,
  • Andrée Coffre,
  • Laurent Lamy,
  • Laurent Denis,
  • Jean-Mathias Greißmeier,
  • Jean-Louis Pinçon,
  • Patrick Canu,
  • Jeremy Faden,
  • Christopher Piker,
  • Nicolas André,
  • Vincent Génot,
  • Stéphane Erard,
  • Todd A King,
  • Joseph N Mafi,
  • Mark Sharlow,
  • Jim Sky,
  • Markus Demleitner
Baptiste Cecconi
LESIA, Observatoire de Paris, PSL, CNRS, Meudon, France

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Alan Loh
LESIA, Observatoire de Paris, PSL, CNRS, Meudon, France
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Pierre Le Sidaner
DIO, Observatoire de Paris, PSL, CNRS, Paris, France
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Renaud Savalle
DIO, Observatoire de Paris, PSL, CNRS, Paris, France
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Xavier Bonnin
LESIA, Observatoire de Paris, PSL, CNRS, Meudon, France
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Quynh Nhu Nguyen
LESIA, Observatoire de Paris, PSL, CNRS, Meudon, France
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Sonny Lion
LESIA, Observatoire de Paris, PSL, CNRS, Meudon, France
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Albert Shih
DIO, Observatoire de Paris, PSL, CNRS, Paris, France
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Stéphane Aicardi
DIO, Observatoire de Paris, PSL, CNRS, Paris, France
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Philippe Zarka
LESIA, Observatoire de Paris, PSL, CNRS, Meudon, France
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Corentin Louis
LESIA, Observatoire de Paris, PSL, CNRS, Meudon, France
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Andrée Coffre
USN, Observatoire de Paris-CNRS, Nançay, France
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Laurent Lamy
LESIA, Observatoire de Paris, PSL, CNRS, Meudon, France,
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Laurent Denis
USN, Observatoire de Paris-CNRS, Nançay, France
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Jean-Mathias Greißmeier
LPC2E, CNRS-Univ. d’Orléans, Orléans, France
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Jean-Louis Pinçon
LPC2E, CNRS-Univ. d’Orléans, Orléans, France
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Patrick Canu
LPP, CNRS, Ecole Polytechnique, Univ. Paris Saclay, Palaiseau, France
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Jeremy Faden
University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States of America
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Christopher Piker
University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States of America
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Nicolas André
IRAP, CNRS-UPS, Toulouse, France
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Vincent Génot
IRAP, CNRS-UPS, Toulouse, France
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Stéphane Erard
LESIA, Observatoire de Paris, PSL, CNRS, Meudon, France,
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Todd A King
UCLA/EPSS, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America
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Joseph N Mafi
UCLA/EPSS, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America
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Mark Sharlow
UCLA/EPSS, Los Angeles, CA, United States
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Jim Sky
Radio Sky Inc., Ocean View, HI, United States of America
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Markus Demleitner
University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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Abstract

The MASER (Measuring, Analysing and Simulating Radio Emissions) project provides a comprehensive infrastructure dedicated to low frequency radio emissions (typically < 50 to 100 MHz). The four main radio sources observed in this frequency are the Earth, the Sun, Jupiter and Saturn. They are observed either from ground (down to 10 MHz) or from space (down to a few kHz). Ground observatories are more sensitive than space observatories and capture high resolution data streams (up to a few TB per day for modern instruments). Conversely, space-borne instruments can observe below the ionospheric cut-off (10 MHz) and can be placed closer to the studied object. Several tools have been developed in the last decade for sharing space physcis data. Data visualization tools developed by the CDPP (http://cdpp.eu, Centre de Données de la Physique des Plasmas, in Toulouse, France) and the University of Iowa (Autoplot, http://autoplot.org) are available to display and analyse space physics time series and spectrograms. A planetary radio emission simulation software is developed in LESIA (ExPRES: Exoplanetary and Planetary Radio Emission Simulator). The VESPA (Virtual European Solar and Planetary Access) provides a search interface that allows to discover data of interest for scientific users, and is based on IVOA standards (astronomical International Virtual Observatory Alliance). The University of Iowa also develops Das2server that allows to distribute data with adjustable temporal resolution. MASER is making use of all these tools and standards to distribute datasets from space and ground radio instruments available from the Observatoire de Paris, the Station de Radioastronomie de Nançay and the CDPP deep archive. These datasets include Cassini/RPWS, STEREO/Waves, WIND/Waves, Ulysses/URAP, ISEE3/SBH, Voyager/PRA, Nançay Decameter Array (Routine, NewRoutine, JunoN), RadioJove archive, swedish Viking mission, Interball/POLRAD… MASER also includes a Python software library for reading raw data. This work is supported by CDPP, CNES, PADC and Europlanet-2020-RI. The Europlanet 2020 Research Infrastructure project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 654208.