The 43m telescope at the NRAO site in Green Bank, WV has recently been outfitted with a clone of the Green Bank Ultimate Pulsar Processing Instrument (GUPPI \cite{Ransom:2009}) backend, making it very useful for a number of pulsar related studies in frequency ranges 800-1600 MHz and 220-440 MHz. Some of the recent science being done with it include: monitoring of the Crab pulsar, a blind search for transient sources, pulsar searches of targets of opportunity, and an all-sky mapping project. For the Crab monitoring project, regular observations are searched for giant pulses (GPs), which are then correlated with γ-ray photons from the \emph{Fermi} spacecraft. Data from the all-sky mapping project are first run through a pipeline that does a blind transient search, looking for single pulses over a DM range of 0-500 pc~cm−3. These projects are made possible by MIT Lincoln Labs.
@article{arxiv.1101.6024,
title = {Pulsar Science with the Green Bank 43m Telescope},
author = {M. B. Mickaliger and M. A. McLaughlin and D. R. Lorimer and G. I. Langston and A. V. Bilous and V. I. Kondratiev and S. M. Ransom and F. Crawford},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1101.6024},
year = {2015}
}
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2 pages, 1 figure, to appear in AIP Conference Proceedings of Pulsar Conference 2010 "Radio Pulsars: a key to unlock the secrets of the Universe", Sardinia, October 2010