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most citedThe MeerKAT Telescope as a Pulsar Facility: System verification and early science results from MeerTime

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astro-ph.HE2026

The first MeerKAT S-band globular cluster pulsar survey

Rouhin Nag, Marta Burgay, Alessandro Ridolfi +19

Globular clusters are efficient factories of recycled pulsars, but searches toward high-dispersion-measure (DM) clusters can be strongly limited near 1 GHz by dispersive smearing a…

astro-ph.HE2026

Galactic Centre Pulsars with the SKAO

F. Abbate, A. Carleo, S. Chatterjee +18

The detection of a pulsar closely orbiting our Galaxy's supermassive black hole - Sagittarius~A* - is one of the ultimate prizes in pulsar astrophysics. The relativistic effects ex…

astro-ph.HE2026

Fifteen new millisecond pulsars in 47 Tucanae

W. Chen, D. Risbud, P. C. C. Freire +16

47 Tucanae is one of the largest, brightest, and closest globular clusters to Earth. It hosts an exotic stellar population with stellar dynamics that indicate a complex evolution h…

astro-ph.HE2026

Magneto-Active Environments in Pulsar Binaries with the MeerKAT Telescope: I. Pulsar sample and their basic properties

Jaikhomba Singha, Dongzi Li, Marisa Geyer +6

Eclipsing pulsar binaries and binaries with a high mass companion are ideal systems for studying and understanding the properties of plasma in magneto-ionic environments. In this w…

astro-ph.HE2026

A joint MeerKAT and Parkes view of Omega Centauri: New TRAPUM Searches and Pulsar Timing

Miquel Colom i Bernadich, Shi Dai, Federico Abbate +27

Millisecond pulsars (MSPs) are powerful probes of globular clusters (GCs), tracing stellar evolution, cluster dynamics, and the local gravitational potential. We investigate the MS…

astro-ph.HE2026

PSR J00247204ai: a massive, eccentric binary system in the globular cluster 47 Tucanae

D. Risbud, A. Ridolfi, P. C. C. Freire +9

In this paper we present PSR J00247204ai, a 13.026-ms binary pulsar recently discovered in the globular cluster 47 Tucanae by the MeerKAT radio telescope. This is the slowest sp…

astro-ph.HE2025

Discovery of two new millisecond pulsars towards the Galactic bulge

J. Berteaud, F. Calore, M. Clavel +13

The mysterious Galactic Center Excess of gamma rays could be explained by a large population of millisecond pulsars hiding in the Galactic bulge, too faint to be detected as indivi…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 1 cited

Galactic Centre Pulsars with the SKAO

F. Abbate, A. Carleo, S. Chatterjee +19

The detection of a pulsar closely orbiting our Galaxy's supermassive black hole - Sagittarius A* - is one of the ultimate prizes in pulsar astrophysics. The relativistic effects ex…

astro-ph.HE2025

Pulsars in Globular Clusters With the SKAO

Manjari Bagchi, Federico Abbate, Vishnu Balakrishnan +15

Because of their extreme stellar densities, globular clusters are highly efficient factories of X-ray binaries and radio pulsars: per unit of stellar mass, they contain about 1000…

astro-ph.HE2025

A survey for radio pulsars and transients in the 10 pc region around Sgr A*

G. Desvignes, R. P. Eatough, Y. Men +7

Here we report on a new survey for pulsars and transients in the 10 pc region around Sgr A* using the Effelsberg radio telescope at frequencies between 4 to 8 GHz. Our calibrated f…

astro-ph.HE2025

Detection of over 37,000 giant pulses per hour from PSR J18233021A with UHF baseband observations from MeerKAT

Simon C. -C. Ho, Matthew Bailes, Chris Flynn +1

Giant pulses (GPs) occur in high magnetic-field millisecond pulsars (MSPs) and young Crab-like pulsars. Motivated by the fast radio bursts (FRBs) discovered in a globular cluster (…

astro-ph.HE2025

Probing Globular Cluster with MeerKAT and FAST: A Pulsar Polarization Census

Lei Zhang, Federico Abbate, Di Li +13

Only one globular cluster (GC), 47 Tuc, has been found to contain intracluster medium, with an electron density 100 times higher than that of the ISM in its vicinity. The character…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 5 cited

NGC 1851A: Revealing an ongoing three-body encounter in a dense globular cluster

A. Dutta, P. C. C. Freire, T. Gautam +16

PSR J05144002A is a binary millisecond pulsar located in the globular cluster NGC 1851. The pulsar has a spin period of 4.99 ms, an orbital period of 18.8 days, and is in a very…

astro-ph.HE2025

Timing and noise analysis of five millisecond pulsars observed with MeerKAT

M. Chisabi, S. Andrianomena, U. Enwelum +12

Millisecond pulsars (MSPs) in binary systems are precise laboratories for tests of gravity and the physics of dense matter. Their orbits can show relativistic effects that provide…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 19 cited

The MeerKAT Pulsar Timing Array: Maps of the gravitational-wave sky with the 4.5 year data release

Kathrin Grunthal, Rowina S. Nathan, Eric Thrane +16

In an accompanying publication, the MeerKAT Pulsar Timing Array (MPTA) collaboration reports tentative evidence for the presence of a stochastic gravitational-wave background, foll…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 94 cited

The MeerKAT Pulsar Timing Array: The first search for gravitational waves with the MeerKAT radio telescope

Matthew T. Miles, Ryan M. Shannon, Daniel J. Reardon +22

Pulsar Timing Arrays search for nanohertz-frequency gravitational waves by regularly observing ensembles of millisecond pulsars over many years to look for correlated timing residu…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 45 cited

The MeerKAT Pulsar Timing Array: The -year data release and the noise and stochastic signals of the millisecond pulsar population

Matthew T. Miles, Ryan M. Shannon, Daniel J. Reardon +21

Pulsar timing arrays are ensembles of regularly observed millisecond pulsars timed to high precision. Each pulsar in an array could be affected by a suite of noise processes, most…

astro-ph.HE2024

Study of consecutive eclipses of pulsar J00247204O

F. Abbate, A. Possenti, A. Ridolfi +7

The eclipses seen in the radio emission of some pulsars can be invaluable to study the properties of the material from the companion stripped away by the pulsar. We present a study…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 6 cited

Timing of millisecond pulsars in NGC\,6752 -- III. On the presence of non-luminous matter in the cluster's core

A. Corongiu, A. Ridolfi, F. Abbate +9

Millisecond pulsars are subject to accelerations in globular clusters (GCs) that manifest themselves in both the first and second spin period time derivatives, and can be used to e…

astro-ph.HE2024

Discoveries and Timing of Pulsars in M62

L. Vleeschower, A. Corongiu, B. W. Stappers +14

Using MeerKAT, we have discovered three new millisecond pulsars (MSPs) in the bulge globular cluster M62: M62H, M62I, and M62J. All three are in binary systems, which means all ten…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 35 cited

Discovery and timing of ten new millisecond pulsars in the globular cluster Terzan 5

P. V. Padmanabh, S. M. Ransom, P. C. C. Freire +23

We report the discovery of ten new pulsars in the globular cluster Terzan 5 as part of the Transients and Pulsars with MeerKAT (TRAPUM) Large Survey Project. We observed Terzan 5 a…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 9 cited

A MeerKAT view of the pulsars in the globular cluster NGC 6522

F. Abbate, A. Ridolfi, P. C. C. Freire +11

We present the results of observations aimed at discovering and studying pulsars in the core-collapsed globular cluster (GC) NGC 6522 performed by the MeerTIME and TRAPUM Large Sur…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 2 cited

A search for pulsars around Sgr A* in the first Event Horizon Telescope dataset

Pablo Torne, Kuo Liu, Ralph P. Eatough +282

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) observed in 2017 the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), at a frequency of 228.1 GHz (=1.3 mm). Th…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 16 cited

Rotation measure variations in Galactic Centre pulsars

F. Abbate, A. Noutsos, G. Desvignes +8

We report the results of an observational campaign using the Effelsberg 100-m telescope of the pulsars J17462849, J17462850, J17462856 and J17452912 located in the Cent…