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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.HE2020★ 19 cited

Giant pulses from J1823-3021A observed with the MeerKAT telescope

F. Abbate, M. Bailes, S. J. Buchner +11

The millisecond pulsar J1823-3021A is a very active giant pulse emitter in the globular cluster NGC 6624. New observations with the MeerKAT radio telescope have revealed 14350 gian…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 19 cited

Radio pulsations from the -ray millisecond pulsar PSR J2039-5617

A. Corongiu, R. P. Mignani, A. S. Seyffert +9

The predicted nature of the candidate redback pulsar 3FGL\,J2039.65618 was recently confirmed by the discovery of -ray millisecond pulsations (Clark et al. 2020, hereafter Pa…

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★ 67 cited

A very young radio-loud magnetar

P. Esposito, N. Rea, A. Borghese +20

The magnetar Swift ,J1818.0-1607 was discovered in March 2020 when Swift detected a 9 ms hard X-ray burst and a long-lived outburst. Prompt X-ray observations revealed a spin perio…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 57 cited

The Thousand-Pulsar-Array programme on MeerKAT I: Science objectives and first results

Simon Johnston, A. Karastergiou, M. J. Keith +24

We report here on initial results from the Thousand Pulsar Array (TPA) programme, part of the Large Survey Project "MeerTime" on the MeerKAT telescope. The interferometer is used i…