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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.IM2020★ 5 cited

Design and pre-flight performance of SPIDER 280 GHz receivers

E. C. Shaw, P. A. R. Ade, S. Akers +79

In this work we describe upgrades to the Spider balloon-borne telescope in preparation for its second flight, currently planned for December 2021. The Spider instrument is optimize…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 17 cited

The Thousand-Pulsar-Array programme on MeerKAT II: observing strategy for pulsar monitoring with subarrays

X. Song, P. Weltevrede, M. J. Keith +15

The Thousand Pulsar Array (TPA) project currently monitors about 500 pulsars with the sensitive MeerKAT radio telescope by using subarrays to observe multiple sources simultaneousl…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 16 cited

A New Transient Ultraluminous X-ray Source in NGC 7090

D. J. Walton, M. Heida, M. Bachetti +17

We report on the discovery of a new, transient ultraluminous X-ray source (ULX) in the galaxy NGC 7090. This new ULX, which we refer to as NGC 7090 ULX3, was discovered via monitor…

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★ 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…