
#405: Testing in Radio Astronomy with Python and pytest
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How Much Data Is Captured and Stored?
Each telescope generates data at about 35 gigabits per second. We have logic on site that will buffer up a few seconds worth of data, and then they have algorithms that are searching through it for interesting things. If there's something that they notice, there's a mechanism to dump that to disk, so just a few seconds at a time. The generally, the most interesting pieces are a little bit more downstream.
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