Synergies in Non-Thermal Astrophysics in Southern Africa

Session

Transients

30 Jul 2024, 10:00

Erlangen Centre for Astroparticle Physics (ECAP), Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg

12. MeerTRAP: Finding short-duration radio transients with MeerKAT

Dr Mechiel Christiaan Bezuidenhout (University of South Africa)

30/07/2024, 10:00

Talk

More Transients and Pulsars (MeerTRAP) is an ERC-funded project to search for fast radio transients, including pulsars and Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs), using the MeerKAT telescope in South Africa. To that end, we employ the FBFUSE beamformer combined with a real time, single pulse search pipeline that operates commensally with other MeerKAT users. Thus, in over five years of regular observing, we...