Present:

• Ramesh Bhat

• Sam McSweeney

• Garvit Grover

• Gayatri Aniruddha

• Marcin Sokolowski

• Mengyao Xue

• Ryan Shannon

• Shi Dai

• Ian Morrison

Minutes:

Introducing Garvit:

• Intro to Garvit’s PhD project

  • Will be taking over from Nick

• Nick no longer attending

General update (Ramesh)

• No new observations taken

• Changes to MWA observing semesters (2022A/2022B)

  • Lightning damage – down to 80 working tiles

  • 2022A pushed back to 2022-05-01

  • 2022A proposals include observations for timing PSR #3 and continuing MWAX commissioning (see below)

  • 2022B slated for September/October, but still might get delayed further

• Progress of SMART TBD

  • Possibility of compressed campaign in October (fingers crossed), but only a small subset of orange observations

• Science commissioning for 2022A

  • Extended goals, including

    • Picket fence mode

  • Amended target list to suit LST range (and commissioning goals, of course)

• Plans and priorities

  • Existing papers → publish

  • Push forward on pulsar hunting (with SMART webapp) and finish first-pass processing

  • Advance MWAX commissioning

  • Plan 2nd pass processing

  • Follow up (timing, polarimetry, etc.) of PSR #3

• Steven Tremblay may be making a comeback (based at NRAO)

SMART webapp demo (not live) (Sammy)

• Sammy explained the SMART Web App demonstration!

• Server - was down during the presentation.

• Demo - was through screenshots.

  • Back-end : Postgres database 

  • Front-en : Django  

    • Authentication features as well

  • Possible to outsource the search for other people to login and test the candidates 

• Nearing completion Beta Version  - testing session on Monday - Beta Version 

• Manual Uploading of candidates - that is not automated yet! 

• Features :

  • Data-Central - host 

  • Built in features :

    • Clustering/Cone Search : Cross correlating the meta information of the candidates across different beams! 

    • Optimized for finding good candidates faster!

      • Show Similar Known Pulsars and Similar Candidates 

      • Brings the good ones - clustered to the top of the list! 

      • Add notes - Apply rating/notes to every repeating candidates 

Discussion

• SD:

  • How many people rank a candidate

• SM:

  • Everyone would be able to rank the candidates 

  • Everyone’s average score would be updated accordingly - follow this list 

• RB:

  • More than 3-4 people rank every candidate

  • Encourage students for ranking to improve and encourage their learning and understanding 

• SM:

  • Looking to put Applications to scale up 

  • Deploy this product in High Schools! 

• RB:

  • Deploy and outreach in High Schools 

  • In conversations with Data Central Team to keep this in mind to accommodate this deployment within a reasonable budget with the necessary training 

• SM:

  • Need to submit an EoI by next month 

• SD:

  • New PhD Student to help join in for the Pulsar Hunting session! 

• RB:

  • Monday Evenings 6 pm : Pulsar Hunting!

  • Incentive : “Student’s Pulsar” 

  • Sammy to organize this training and testing session 

Sammy - Paper’s Update 

• J0026-1956 Paper 

• Working out of Overlead, working through the local repository 

• Referee Comments: 

  • 20 minutes of “Null”

  • Manual Single Pulse Search performed 

  • Help Needed :

    • What is pdmp doing? 

  • Working on Nulling Histograms 

• Two “non-detections” processed, found some faint single pulses

Discussion

• RB: Max(SNR)

• RB: We know exactly where the sub-pulse is. Does it make sense to add one more curve to the plot - where Pulse Energy is based on the sub-pulse? May/May not be obvious to people! So, that distribution plots are informative for a large number of people! Referee is not asking for details though!

Ramesh’s Paper Update

• Survey description paper

• Using Trello for project-managing

• Includes

  • detections of known pulsars (gallery!)

  • figures to demonstrate tiling strategy

  • Plot to compare measured vs predicted flux density (Nick’s work)

• To-do:

  • Several sections to be drafted, and accompanying plots to be made

    • Flux density analysis

    • Subsections on PSR #2 and #3

    • Survey simulations

    • …

  • Just need a block of time to sit down and write!