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Change (to extended configuration) was planned for early March (as of recent emails)
However, due to various circumstances, configuration change will be starting imminently
Will have to wait for details before we can make solid plans for remaining SMART observations
However, new system has smaller turnaround time for data throughput, so more observations can be packed into a smaller number of days (which may be crucial for strategising the remaining observations).

Plot shown (intended for SMART survey description paper, Bhat et al in prep) showing sensitivity as a function of DM.
Tsys is worse by factor of ~2 in Galactic plane compared to elsewhere.
Scattering can significantly reduce sensitivity
SMART still 3-5 times more sensitive than 70-cm survey (for long period pulsars)
Smearing time. Turns out that DM steps used for shallow pass are big enough to dominate smearing time. This will have to inform deep shallow.

At 39/51 first pass shallow search processing complete
Database webapp has lots of nice new features, but current set of bugs means nothing that can be shown at today’s meeting (stay tuned!)
SM: How many of the 39 (out of 51) have been ranked?

Second paper referee report arrived
Generally positive, can probably turn around revision in a few weeks (depending on Sammy’s time management!)

>⅓ of paper has draft text
Quick overview of some figures in various stages of completion
Not yet ripe enough to share Overleaf more broadly, but is coming along
Discussion on what data products can be made available to public – more discussion later
Ways to improve Table 1 (Known pulsars detected in SMART survey)