• @Ramesh Bhat 

• @Bradley Meyers 

• Parul Janagal

• @Christopher Lee 

• @Mengyao Xue 

• Shi Dai

• @Nick Swainston (Deactivated) 

• Jared Moseley

• Ryan Shannon

• @Marcin Sokolowski (Deactivated) 

• Willem van Straten

General introductions for new faces.

• General project updates

  • SMART data acquisition is notional complete! 1 or 2 may need re-observing in the next week.

  • Description papers fully published in PASA (reminder for folks not at previous meetings)

  • Parul's paper on J0026-1955 now accepted (congratulations!)

• Proposals

  • ASTAC proposal for 2023B awarded; 250 kSU for Q3/4

  • GMRT Cycle 44; additional time granted for Pulsar 5 (best-effort), no other proposals intended this semester

• MWA 10 year Project Meeting

  • Many PFT members presenting, Bradley giving SMART talk, Ramesh giving 10yr Overview

• Data acquisition and quality checking

  • Three observations needed to be recollected

  • One more may need a recollection; one has no pulsars detected yet

  • 53 pulsars with MWAX, total of 164 with SMART

  • Need to double check some ephmerides/timing offsets based on J2145, but good detection otherwise

    • Will get most recent ephemeris from PPTA/MeerTime and see how it fairs

  • New MSP detection of J1555-2908 (low S/N but reasonably convincing based on 10-mins of  data)

    • Shi: Do we have longer integration? Chris: Yes, 80-minutes at least but won't look at it just yet. 10-mins is for verification purpose. Shi: MWA data should be very helpful for studying eclipses.

  • J1730-2304 (reasonable), J1622-6617 (less convincing, but definitely signature in PRESTO plots, not coherent dedisp'd)

  • 8.5 sec pulsar detected! First detection below 300 MHz?

• PhD update discussion
  
  

  • Idea is to target Fermi unassociated sources along the GP

    • Also follow-up MeerTime MSP census?

  • Perform CDMT, acceleration/sideband search

  • Can probably push CDMT search up to DM of ~50 pc/cc but prohibitive for much larger

  • Took LOFAR data to receive MWA beamformed data (add VDIF file support)

    • Lots of debugging CUDA/C++

    • Profile of J2145-0750 looks very similar, good verification of approach vs. DSPSR

    • Still having issues with J0034-0534 (comparing PRESTO, DSPSR, CDMT, etc.) - may need some more expert help?

      • Haven't done MSP timing checks - could be instrumental? MWAX subfiles at 8-sec cadence...

      • Will set up meeting with WvS for deep-dive

    • CDMT output also seems to imprint periodic impulses in output data (dominating Fourier searches) - help?

• SMART publication policy

  • Operates in addition to PFT and MWA policies

  • Aim is to provide clarity and to make things like project descriptions, paper authorship & title formats easier

  • Draft policy document

  • Draft paper authorship sign-up form

  • Bradley will circulate to SMART team after this meeting so we can converge

• Database migration status

  • Data Central version online, still ironing out bugs. Please have a play and let me (Bradley) know if you run into problems.

  • Hopefully in the next few weeks!

• Update on J0026-1955 with uGMRT data

  • Significant nulling and subpulse drifting that has multiple modes

  • Drift rate evolution across specific mode emission which is reasonably new (at the measured level)

  • Classic carousel model simply doesn't work

    • Change in polar screening gap?

    • Change in spark configuration?

  • 90% of the time, mode A2 follows a null - what could it mean?

  • Memory across nulls (drift rate OR subpulse phase)

• FFA/FFT/SPS simulations and paper (Ramesh? Garvit?); Moved to next meeting

• Dedispersion plans

  • Low and High Galactic latitude plans (Low = |b| < 15 deg , High = |b| > 15 deg )

  • What should be the max. searched DMs?

  • Should be just do FFT/FFA searches on a subset of the DM trials, SPS on all trials?

• Cluster pulsars? Could be on edge of detection threshold, but in principle not that much processing required. Previous experience showed only very marginal hints of detection.