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

178 citations · 658 across the 20 of their papers we have counts for

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astro-ph.HE2024★ 6 cited

An activity transition in FRB 20201124A: methodological rigor, detection of frequency-dependent cessation, and a geometric magnetar model

A. V. Bilous, J. van Leeuwen, Y. Maan +4

We report detections of fast radio bursts (FRBs) from the repeating source FRB 20201124A with Apertif/WSRT and GMRT, and measurements of basic burst properties, especially the disp…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 6 cited

Comprehensive analysis of the Apertif Fast Radio Burst sample: similarities with young, energetic neutron stars

Inés Pastor-Marazuela, Joeri van Leeuwen, Anna Bilous +9

Understanding the origin of fast radio bursts (FRBs) has become the main science driver of recent dedicated FRB surveys. Between July 2019 and February 2022, we carried out ALERT,…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 6 cited

Topology of Pulsar Profiles (ToPP). I. Graph theory method and classification of the EPN

D. Vohl, J. van Leeuwen, Y. Maan

Some of the most important information on a radio pulsar is derived from its average pulse profile. Many early pulsar studies were necessarily based on only few such profiles. Ther…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 6 cited

An interference detection strategy for Apertif based on AOFlagger 3

A. R. Offringa, B. Adebahr, A. Kutkin +15

Context. Apertif is a multi-beam receiver system for the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope that operates at 1.1-1.5 GHz, which overlaps with various radio services, resulting in…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 14 cited

Continuum source catalog for the first APERTIF data release

A. M. Kutkin, T. A. Oosterloo, R. Morganti +25

The first data release of Apertif survey contains 3074 radio continuum images covering a thousand square degrees of the sky. The observations were performed during August 2019 to J…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 42 cited

First release of Apertif imaging survey data

Elizabeth A. K. Adams, B. Adebahr, W. J. G. de Blok +56

(Abridged) Apertif is a phased-array feed system for WSRT, providing forty instantaneous beams over 300 MHz of bandwidth. A dedicated survey program started on 1 July 2019, with th…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 14 cited

The Apertif Radio Transient System (ARTS): Design, Commissioning, Data Release, and Detection of the first 5 Fast Radio Bursts

Joeri van Leeuwen, Eric Kooistra, Leon Oostrum +49

Fast Radio Bursts must be powered by uniquely energetic emission mechanisms. This requirement has eliminated a number of possible source types, but several remain. Identifying the…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 6 cited

Characterising the Apertif primary beam response

H. Dénes, K. M. Hess, E. A. K. Adams +27

Context. Phased Array Feeds (PAFs) are multi element receivers in the focal plane of a telescope that make it possible to form simultaneously multiple beams on the sky by combining…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 12 cited

The Apertif science verification campaign - Characteristics of polarised radio sources

B. Adebahr, A. Berger, E. A. K. Adams +24

We analyse five early science datasets from the APERture Tile in Focus (Apertif) phased array feed system to verify the polarisation capabilities of Apertif in view of future large…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 32 cited

A fast radio burst with sub-millisecond quasi-periodic structure

Inés Pastor-Marazuela, Joeri van Leeuwen, Anna Bilous +31

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are extragalactic radio transients of extraordinary luminosity. Studying the diverse temporal and spectral behaviour recently observed in a number of FRBs…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 13 cited

Apercal -- The Apertif Calibration Pipeline

B. Adebahr, R. Schulz, T. J. Dijkema +33

Apertif (APERture Tile In Focus) is one of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) pathfinder facilities. The Apertif project is an upgrade to the 50-year-old Westerbork Synthesis Radio T…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 1 cited

Apertif, Phased Array Feeds for the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope

W. A. van Cappellen, T. A. Oosterloo, M. A. W. Verheijen +87

We describe the APERture Tile In Focus (Apertif) system, a phased array feed (PAF) upgrade of the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope which has transformed this telescope into a h…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 28 cited

Dual-frequency single-pulse study of PSR B0950+08

A. V. Bilous, J. M. Griessmeier, T. Pennucci +33

PSR B0950+08 is a bright non-recycled pulsar whose single-pulse fluence variability is reportedly large. Based on observations at two widely separated frequencies, 55 MHz (NenuFAR)…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 25 cited

A search for radio emission from double-neutron star merger GW190425 using Apertif

Olivér Boersma, Joeri van Leeuwen, Elizabeth A. K. Adams +26

Detection of the electromagnetic emission from coalescing binary neutron stars (BNS) is important for understanding the merger and afterglow. We present a search for a radio counte…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 15 cited

Apertif view of the OH Megamaser IRAS 10597+5926: OH 18 cm satellite lines in wide-area HI surveys

Kelley M. Hess, H. Roberts, H. Dénes +26

We present the serendipitous detection of the two main OH maser lines at 1667 and 1665 MHz associated with IRAS 10597+5926 at z = 0.19612 in the untargeted Apertif Wide-area Extrag…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 131 cited

Chromatic periodic activity down to 120 MHz in a Fast Radio Burst

Inés Pastor-Marazuela, Liam Connor, Joeri van Leeuwen +34

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are extragalactic astrophysical transients whose brightness requires emitters that are highly energetic, yet compact enough to produce the short, milliseco…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 9 cited

Extreme intra-hour variability of the radio source J1402+5347 discovered with Apertif

T. A. Oosterloo, H. K. Vedantham, A. M. Kutkin +27

The propagation of radio waves from distant compact radio sources through turbulent interstellar plasma in our Galaxy causes these sources to twinkle, a phenomenon called interstel…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 178 cited

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

M. Bailes, A. Jameson, F. Abbate +72

We describe system verification tests and early science results from the pulsar processor (PTUSE) developed for the newly-commissioned 64-dish SARAO MeerKAT radio telescope in Sout…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 48 cited

A bright, high rotation-measure FRB that skewers the M33 halo

Liam Connor, Joeri van Leeuwen, L. C. Oostrum +37

We report the detection of a bright fast radio burst, FRB\,191108, with Apertif on the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope (WSRT). The interferometer allows us to localise the FRB…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 66 cited

Repeating fast radio bursts with WSRT/Apertif

L. C. Oostrum, Y. Maan, J. van Leeuwen +40

Repeating fast radio bursts (FRBs) present excellent opportunities to identify FRB progenitors and host environments, as well as decipher the underlying emission mechanism. Detaile…