PFT Projects

PFT Projects

Primary "Object"

PSR Pulsars

FRB Fast Radio Bursts

Cosmic Rays Cosmic Rays

ISM The interstellar medium, etc.

Table of active projects

PFT contact

Student project?

SMART project?

Project title

Primary "Object"

Date started (approx.)

PFT contact

Student project?

SMART project?

Project title

Primary "Object"

Date started (approx.)

@Ramesh Bhat
(with Jim Cordes) 

No

No

Frequency dependence of pulse broadening function

PSRISM

October 2023

@Ramesh Bhat

No

Yes

SMART first-pass++ pulsar data release (plus easy-to-access science)

PSRISM

~2024

@Christopher Lee

Yes

Yes

Millisecond pulsar census

PSR

September 2023

@Christopher Lee

Yes

No

Pulsar monitoring with AAVS2

PSR

March 2022

@Garvit Grover 

Yes

Yes

Nulling pulsar census

PSR

September 2023

@Garvit Grover 

Yes

Yes

Discovery and follow-up of SMART pulsar #5

PSR

January 2023

@Gayatri Aniruddha (Unlicensed) 

@Marcin Sokolowski (Deactivated)

Yes

No

FRB test searches with GPU imager (EDA2)

FRB

 

@Marcin Sokolowski (Deactivated)

No

No

GPU imager development

 

 

@Cristian Di Pietrantonio

Yes

Maybe

GPU FRB search pipeline (MWA VCS)

FRB

June 2023

@Cristian Di Pietrantonio

Yes

Maybe

Development of GPU FRB search pipeline (MWA VCS)

FRBPSR

June 2023

@Zhongli Zhang 

No

No

Scattering of multiple pulsars

PSRISM

~2019

@Zhongli Zhang + students?

?

Yes

Globular cluster pulsar search

PSR

~2021

@Zhongli Zhang + students?

?

?

Gum Nebula?? (Conflict with Mengyao's project?)

PSRISM

??

@Mengyao Xue

No

No

ISM & polarisation study towards Gum Nebula - stalled?

ISMPSR

~2020

@Mengyao Xue

@Ramesh Bhat

No

No

Scintillation of high-|b| pulsars (MWA+uGMRT+Parkes) - stalled?

 

 

@Bradley Meyers

No

No

Scintillation of bright pulsars at low frequencies

ISM

PSR

 

@Bradley Meyers

@Chia Min Tan

No

Yes

SMART second pass (planning + benchmarking) and first discoveries

 

August 2022

@Bradley Meyers

Arash B.

No

No

Improving localisations with tied-array beams (freq. dependence included)

 

November 2023

@Bradley Meyers

No

No

Real-time coherent beamforming (MWAX)

 

~2024

@Chia Min Tan

No

Yes

Updating ML classifier/integrate into workflow

 

January 2024

@Pratik Kumar

No

No

AAVS2 pulsar detections (upgraded BW)

PSR

December 2023

 

Completed projects

PFT contact

Student project?

SMART project?

Project title

Date started (approx.)

Date completed (approx.)

PFT contact

Student project?

SMART project?

Project title

Date started (approx.)

Date completed (approx.)

@Garvit Grover 

Yes

Yes?

Increasing the sensitivity for long-period and nulling pulsars in next-gen surveys (simulations)

Aug 2022

Jun 2023

@Marcin Sokolowski (Deactivated)

No

No

Incoherent beam FRB searches

 

?? (waiting for PASA)