We present the final and full data release for the Apertif Radio Transient System (ARTS), a supercomputing radio-telescope instrument that performed real-time Fast Radio Bursts detection and localisation on the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope (WSRT) interferometer. The release includes the downsampled time-domain data from all pointings, obtained from 2019-2022. The 2019 data was released before, as Apertif Time-Domain Data Release 1, and is included here again. This snapshot of the fast-transient sky can be interesting for validation and searching for pulsars and Fast Radio Bursts. For details on observing and data, see van Leeuwen, J. et al. “The Apertif Radio Transient System (ARTS): Design, Commissioning, Data Release, and Detection of the first 5 Fast Radio Bursts”, 2023, A&A 672, A117 (hereafter: van Leeuwen et al. 2023). The analysis of the full/DR2 sample is presented in Pastor-Marazuela, I. et al. "Comprehensive analysis of the Apertif Fast Radio Burst sample: similarities with young, energetic neutron stars" 2024 A&A (submitted).


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