Group photo CNRS Orléans/Nançay team

Here is a recent group photo of the CNRS Orléans/Nançay pulsar and Fast Radio Burst team as of February 2024. The two PhD students were present for the photo, but the 2024 Master’s students had not yet arrived. Other team members who are primarily based at the Nançay …

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MeerTRAP FRB paper II accepted for publication

My MeerKAT FRB paper was accepted for publication!

Please find the abstract and selected plots from the paper below.

We present a sample of well-localised Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) discovered by the MeerTRAP project at the MeerKAT telescope in South Africa. We discovered the three FRBs in single coherent tied-array …

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New research position at the CNRS in France

I recently started a new academic research position at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and the Université d’Orléans in the beautiful city of Orléans, France. I will work on pulsars and Fast Radio Bursts as part of a more extensive multi-wavelength collaboration and with several radio …

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Scatfit: Scattering fits of time domain radio signals (Fast Radio Bursts or pulsars) software published

I recently published software for performing scattering fits of time domain radio signals from Fast Radio Bursts or pulsars on the Astrophysics Source Code Library (ASCL). Please find its description below.

Impulsive time domain radio signals, such as Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) or pulsars pulses, undergo several propagation effects in …

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MeerTRAP FRB paper I published

Our paper led by Dr Kaustubh Rajwade on the first three Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) reported by MeerTRAP was published in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. We report on their discoveries, localisations, scattering and scintillation properties and identify a potential host galaxy for one of them …

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MeerTRAP: Twelve Galactic fast transients detected in a real-time, commensal MeerKAT survey paper published

Our paper led by PhD student Tiaan Bezuidenhout on the first twelve Galactic sources discovered with the MeerTRAP single-pulse search instrument at the MeerKAT telescope in South Africa was accepted for publication in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. It reports on twelve discoveries of what might …

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Website overhauled

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Over the last week or two, I performed a general overhaul of the website, adding tags throughout the news section, updating and polishing the front page, and expanding my research page significantly. In particular, I extended the descriptions and added links to my publications that you can look at for …

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Educational programming material published

I recently published some of the educational material online that I used to solve various example problems or to demonstrate different software programming concepts. The material collection so far contains four example projects that range from plotting a modified parabolic function to a simple Bomberman-inspired video game.

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Website relocated to new server

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Today I relocated the website from its old location on Swinburne University’s webserver to a new server. The move simplifies a couple of technical details behind the scenes and allows for faster access for European and US visitors. Apart from the move, nothing has changed.

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Public outreach talk and ask-me-anything session

Today I gave a short public talk about my research at Jodrell Bank Observatory as part of the ‘Meet the Expert’ session. After the presentation, there were about 30 minutes of questions where people could ask me anything related to astronomy, astrophysics or physics in general (this is a somewhat …

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UTMOST pulsar timing programme I software and VizieR data release

Late last year, I released the high-level observing software used for the UTMOST pulsar timing programme I paper through the Astrophysics Source Code Library. It contains monitoring and scheduling tools that we developed as part of the UTMOST project for the Molonglo Observatory Synthesis Telescope (MOST), including the fully-autonomous dynamic …

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Collaborative MWA & UTMOST paper on the intermittent pulsar J1107-5907

A collaborative paper (Meyers et al.) reporting on the spectral properties of the highly intermittent pulsar J1107-5907 at radio frequencies has recently been accepted for publication.

The publication presents the analysis of simultaneous radio observations of the pulsar with the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) and the refurbished Molonglo Synthesis Radio …

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Spectral properties of 441 radio pulsars

In a recently published paper we have systematically investigated the radio spectral energy distributions of 441 radio pulsars, observed with the Parkes telescope in Australia. The publication can be accessed online via the Astrophysics Data System. This work is significant, because it considers about one fifth of the currently known …

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