The Large European Array for Pulsars (LEAP) is a European Pulsar Timing Array project that combines the Lovell, Effelsberg, Nan\c{c}ay, Sardinia, and Westerbork radio telescopes into a single tied-array, and makes monthly observations of a set of millisecond pulsars (MSPs). The overview of our experiment is presented in Bassa et al. (2016). Baseband data are recorded at a central frequency of 1396 MHz and a bandwidth of 128 MHz at each telescope, and are correlated offline on a cluster at Jodrell Bank Observatory using a purpose-built correlator, detailed in Smits et al. (2017). LEAP offers a substantial increase in sensitivity over that of the individual telescopes, and can operate in timing and imaging modes (notably in observations of the galactic centre radio magnetar; Wucknitz 2015). To date, 4 years of observations have been reduced. Here, we report on the scientific projects which have made use of LEAP data.
@article{arxiv.1712.02343,
title = {Pulsar science with data from the Large European Array for Pulsars},
author = {J. W. McKee and C. G. Bassa and S. Chen and M. Gaikwad and G. H. Janssen and R. Karuppusamy and M. Kramer and K. J. Lee and K. Liu and D. Perrodin and S. A. Sanidas and R. Smits and B. W. Stappers and L. Wang and W. W. Zhu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1712.02343},
year = {2018}
}
Comments
2 pages, 1 figure, accepted for publication in the proceedings of IAU Symposium 337 - Pulsar Astrophysics: The Next Fifty Years