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Pulsar Observations at the Ghana Radio Astronomy Observatory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 June 2018

T. W. Scragg ,
B. W. Stappers ,
R. P. Breton ,
J. N. Smith ,
D. Adomako ,
B. Duah Asabere ,
J. O. Chibueze  and
K. Cloete
T. W. Scragg
Affiliation:
Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, UK
B. W. Stappers
Affiliation:
Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, UK
R. P. Breton
Affiliation:
Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, UK
J. N. Smith
Affiliation:
SKA-SA, The Park, Park Road, Pinelands, Western Cape, SA
D. Adomako
Affiliation:
Ghana Space Science and Technology Institute, P. O. Box LG80 Legon-Accra, Ghana. email: thomas.scragg@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk
B. Duah Asabere
Affiliation:
Ghana Space Science and Technology Institute, P. O. Box LG80 Legon-Accra, Ghana. email: thomas.scragg@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk
J. O. Chibueze
Affiliation:
SKA-SA, The Park, Park Road, Pinelands, Western Cape, SA
K. Cloete
Affiliation:
SKA-SA, The Park, Park Road, Pinelands, Western Cape, SA
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Abstract

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In August 2017 a new radio telescope, the Ghana Radio Astronomy Observatory (GRAO), was officially inaugurated at Kuntunse, Ghana. The GRAO is a former satellite Earth station and now the first operational station in the African VLBI Network (AVN). The Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics (JBCA), supported by the UK’s STFC/Newton Fund, has developed a new pulsar timing system (Hebe) for the GRAO. We present some aspects of the design of Hebe and an outline of the first pulsar detection at GRAO.

Keywords

Pulsarsinstrumentation: miscellaneoustelescopes (GRAO)
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 13 , Symposium S337: Pulsar Astrophysics the Next Fifty Years , September 2017 , pp. 410 - 411
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2018 

References

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