MeerTime - the MeerKAT Key Science Program on Pulsar Timing
- Bailes, M.
- Barr, E.
- Bhat, N.D. R.
- Brink, J.
- Buchner, S.
- Burgay, M.
- Camilo, F.
- Champion, D.J.
- Hessels, J.
- Janssen, G.H.
- Jameson, A.
- Johnston, S.
- Karastergiou, A.
- Karuppusamy, R.
- Kaspi, V.
- Keith, M.J.
- Kramer, M.
- Mclaughlin, M.A.
- Moodley, K.
- Oslowski, S.
- Possenti, A.
- Ransom, S.M.
- Rasio, F.A.
- Sievers, J.
- Serylak, M.
- Stappers, B.W.
- Stairs, I.H.
- Theureau, G.
- Van Straten, W.
- Weltevrede, P.
- Wex, N.
DOIAbstract
International audienceThe MeerKAT telescope represents an outstanding opportunity for radio pulsar timing science with its unique combination of a large collecting area and aperture efficiency (effective area $\sim$7500 m$^2$), system temperature ($T<20$K), high slew speeds (1-2 deg/s), large bandwidths (770 MHz at 20cm wavelengths), southern hemisphere location (latitude $\sim -30^\circ$) and ability to form up to four sub-arrays. The MeerTime project is a five-year program on the MeerKAT array by an international consortium that will regularly time over 1000 radio pulsars to perform tests of relativistic gravity, search for the gravitational wave signature induced by supermassive black hole binaries in the timing residuals of millisecond ...
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