Re: [casper] Pulsar backends

Spot on Justin. Documentation is still a little scarce and what we have (requirements specifications, etc.) may be hard to interpret. What exists to date is a boresight single beam system, soon to be upgraded to the four beam system Justin mentioned. We are open to setting up calls to discuss

Re: [casper] Pulsar backends

At the risk of speaking on behalf of my far more knowledgeable colleagues: The entry-level “MeerKAT beamformer” is embedded in the correlator/beamformer and will provide a maximum of 4, currently 1, tied array beams using CASPER SKARAB hardware and firmware. Currently provides a tied array

Re: [casper] Pulsar backends

Hi All, I had a discussion with Rich and Omar yesterday. I think they are interested in slightly more than what is being called a "pulsar backend", but more like the whole system to allow fast sampled observations in general: i.e. beam formers or fast-dump correlators and how they are

Re: [casper] Pulsar backends

..or (along with Scott Ransom) contact Emmanual Fonseca or Ingrid Stairs to ask about the pulsar timing back end for CHIME. Mark On 2018-01-25 10:10 AM, Dan Werthimer wrote: hi rich, i know a bit about the meerkat pulsar search. (i'm not on the team, but we've been working with those

Re: [casper] Pulsar backends

Hi Rich Likewise you should contact Ben Stappers at Manchester who is a key person developing the MeerKAT and SKA PSS (transient search) engines. Matthew Bailes (Swinburne) and others have developed the MeerKAT timing backend for MeerKAT. Cheers J > On 25 Jan 2018, at 8:10 PM, Dan

Re: [casper] Pulsar backends

hi rich, i know a bit about the meerkat pulsar search. (i'm not on the team, but we've been working with those guys...). i don't know much about meerkat pulsar timing (the timing and search are different groups). scott ransom knows a bit about SKA pulsar search design team at oxford. i know a

Re: [casper] Pulsar backends

Hi Rich, you might want to look at the SKA CSP CDR documents on Pulsar Search and Timing. cheers Kris On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 3:38 PM, Rich Lacasse wrote: > Hi All, > > A few of us are starting to think about the pulsar backend for the ngVLA. > We were wondering if someone

[casper] Pulsar backends

Hi All, A few of us are starting to think about the pulsar backend for the ngVLA.  We were wondering if someone on this list might be able to point us to publicly available documentation on what is being done and being planned for MeerKat and SKA.  This would give us an excellent starting