Year: 2026

Type: dataset

Abstract: With this proposal we ask time to continue our timing follow-up campaign of pulsars discovered with the MeerKAT telescope. Fiftytwo sources have been discovered in targeted observations of Fermi unidentified point sources, 2 towards Supernova Remnants, 27 in the Magellanic Clouds, 128 in Globular Clusters and 96 in a survey of the Galactic plane. A large fraction of the new discoveries are recycled pulsars (including a few relativistic systems, a pulsar with a planetary companion and several 'spider' binaries), or young pulsars. Timing observations have an essential role in exploiting the full potential of any pulsar discovery, allowing for the precise measurement of rotational, astrometric and orbital parameters which, in turn, give us powerful tools to improve our understanding of the physics in extreme environments as well as of the population of neutron stars as a whole. The UWL receiver of the Parkes telescope is a sensitive, versatile instrument that is allowing us to successfully time these new sources, in the bright-end of TRAPUM discoveries.

Source: CSIRO

DOI: 10.25919/5z7d-m772

Institutions: Osservatorio Astronomico di Cagliari, National Institute for Astrophysics, Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy, Hartebeesthoek Radio Astronomy Observatory, Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, University of Manchester, Bielefeld University, Laboratoire de Physique et Chimie de l’Environnement et de l’Espace, National Astronomical Research Institute of Thailand, Swinburne University of Technology, University of Cape Town, Astronomical Observatory of Rome

Language: English

Topic: Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research

Subfield: Astronomy and Astrophysics

Field: Physics and Astronomy

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W7222398073

Parkes observations for project P1054 semester 2026OCTS_05