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INAF manages three single-dish radio telescopes: SRT, Medicina, Noto. The science of pulsars and Fast Radio Bursts constitutes key projects in radio astronomy. SRT already plays a key role in various projects, such as the EPTA, which uses radio pulsar data to search for gravitational waves. Currently-available instrumentation at SRT severely limits its possible scientific return. At Medicina and Noto, no specific system was ever installed that would allow them to be involved in those fields.
I would present the INAF techno grant recently funded with the aims to equip all three telescopes with a modern infrastructure that will allow them to excel in transient studies; both as a single antenna and as part of an Italian pulsar timing array.
Specifically, the goal of this techno grant is to design and build - for SRT, Medicina and Noto - a digital infrastructure based on the SKARAB FPGA-based board that is capable of dealing with a bandwidth of at least 512 MHz to be recorded and/or post-processed for every science transients related, among which the Fast Radio Bursts.
