Speaker
Marta Burgay
(Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
Description
In this talk I will report on the MeerKAT key science projects related to pulsars, and on the leading role that the italian scientific community is playing in these programs. I will, in particular, summarise the discoveries (50, at the time of writing, and counting) already done as part of the TRAPUM KSP, a project aimed at searching for new interesting pulsars in a series of targeted observations. I will also report on the timing results obtained in the MeerTime project, whose aim is to exploit the clock-like nature of pulsars to use them as laboratories for fundamental physics. The results obtained so far, along with the observing and data reduction strategies adopted, are paving our way towards a successful exploitation of the SKA.
| Reasearch area | Pulsars |
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Primary author
Marta Burgay
(Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
