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MeerTRAP: A pulsar and fast transients survey with MeerKAT

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 June 2018

S. Sanidas ,
M. Caleb ,
L. Driessen ,
V. Morello ,
K. Rajwade  and
B. W. Stappers
S. Sanidas
Affiliation:
Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics, The University of Manchester, Alan Turing Building, Manchester, M13 9PL, United Kingdom email: sotirios.sanidas@manchester.ac.uk
M. Caleb
Affiliation:
Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics, The University of Manchester, Alan Turing Building, Manchester, M13 9PL, United Kingdom email: sotirios.sanidas@manchester.ac.uk
L. Driessen
Affiliation:
Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics, The University of Manchester, Alan Turing Building, Manchester, M13 9PL, United Kingdom email: sotirios.sanidas@manchester.ac.uk
V. Morello
Affiliation:
Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics, The University of Manchester, Alan Turing Building, Manchester, M13 9PL, United Kingdom email: sotirios.sanidas@manchester.ac.uk
K. Rajwade
Affiliation:
Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics, The University of Manchester, Alan Turing Building, Manchester, M13 9PL, United Kingdom email: sotirios.sanidas@manchester.ac.uk
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Abstract

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We present a brief overview of MeerTRAP, a real-time, fully commensal survey for pulsars and fast transients with the MeerKAT radio telescope in South Africa. MeerTRAP will combine the excellent sensitivity of MeerKAT with an unprecedented amount of on-sky time in order to significantly extend the parameter space covered by similar, previous or ongoing, surveys with other radio telescopes. Here, we will give a brief overview of the project.

Keywords

pulsars: generalinstrumentation: interferometers
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 13 , Symposium S337: Pulsar Astrophysics the Next Fifty Years , September 2017 , pp. 406 - 407
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2018 

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