Back in early 2019, we observed several pulsars to better characterise their emission properties at radio frequencies and to do so systematically. Serendipitously, we caught one of the pulsars, PSR J1452-6036, about 3 hours after it had suffered a sudden spin-up event (or glitch) in its otherwise stable rotation. The …
more ...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 …
more ...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 …
more ...Before the bustle leading up to the Christmas and New Year’s holidays, my UTMOST pulsar timing programme paper got accepted for publication in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. The publication can be accessed online via the Astrophysics Data System. In that paper, we report updated …
more ...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 …
more ...We have detected another pulsar glitch at the Molonglo Observatory Synthesis Radio Telescope in Australia, where we are observing more than 400 radio pulsars regularly, mainly with very high cadence. This one happened in the pulsar J1709-4429 and is by far the smallest one ever reported in this pulsar. The …
more ...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 …
more ...We crossed the 10,000 pulsar observations mark using the tied-array beam with the UTMOST system at the refurbished Molonglo radio telescope last night. This is a big milestone for the pulsar timing project.
Hurray!
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