Refurbishing Voyager 1 & 2 Planetary Radio Astronomy (PRA) Data

TL;DR

This paper details the reprocessing and calibration of Voyager 1 & 2 PRA data, creating high-resolution datasets crucial for current and future planetary radio astronomy missions.

Contribution

It introduces a new, detailed reprocessing of Voyager PRA data, including goniopolarimetric datasets, unavailable before, aiding upcoming planetary missions.

Findings

Reprocessed Voyager PRA data covering Jupiter and Saturn flybys.

Reconstructed full-resolution flux and polarization datasets.

First analysis results from the reprocessed datasets.

Abstract

Voyager/PRA (Planetary Radio Astronomy) data from digitized tapes archived at CNES have been reprocessed and recalibrated. The data cover the Jupiter and Saturn flybys of both Voyager probes. We have also reconstructed goniopolarimetric datasets (flux and polarization) at full resolution. These datasets are currently not available to the scientific community, but they are of primary interest for the analysis of the Cassini data at Saturn, and the Juno data at Jupiter, as well as for the preparation of the JUICE mission. We present the first results derived from the re-analysis of this dataset.