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We present an overview and the first results from a large-scale pulsar timing programme that is part of the UTMOST project at the refurbished Molonglo Observatory Synthesis Radio Telescope (MOST) near Canberra, Australia. We currently…

We report the first radio interferometric search at 843 MHz for fast transients, particularly Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs). The recently recommissioned Swinburne University of Technology's digital backend for the Molonglo Observatory Synthesis…

The UTMOST-NS pulsar timing programme operated at the Molonglo Observatory Synthesis Telescope from April 2021 to June 2023, observing 173 pulsars with an average cadence of 50 pulsars per day. An overview of the programme is presented,…

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Before and after every 12 hour synthesis observation, the Molonglo Observatory Synthesis Telescope (MOST) measures the flux densities of ~5 compact extragalactic radio sources, chosen from a list of 55 calibrators. From 1984 to 1996, the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 B. M. Gaensler , R. W. Hunstead

The Molonglo Observatory Synthesis Telescope, operating at 843 MHz with a 5 square degree field of view, is carrying out a radio imaging survey of the sky south of declination -30 deg. This survey (the Sydney University Molonglo Sky Survey,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 D. C. -J. Bock , M. I. Large , Elaine M. Sadler

We report a new Fast Radio Burst (FRB) discovered in real-time as part of the UTMOST project at the Molonglo Observatory Synthesis Radio Telescope (MOST). FRB170827 is the first detected with our low-latency ($< 24$ s),…

The Bustling Universe Radio Survey Telescope in Taiwan (BURSTT) is a new-generation wide-angle radio telescope specifically designed to survey Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs), energetic millisecond-duration pulses of unknown extragalactic origin.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-23 Kai-Yang Lin , Chih-Yi Wen , Homin Jiang , Jen-Hung Wang , Sujin Eie , Shih-Hao Wang , Yao-Huan Tseng , Hsien-Chun Tseng , Daniel Baker , Ue-Li Pen

Dedicated surveys using different detection pipelines are being carried out at multiple observatories to find more Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs). Understanding the efficiency of detection algorithms and the survey completeness function is…

An FPGA based digital signal processing (DSP) system for biasing and reading out multiplexed bolometric detectors for mm-wavelength telescopes is presented. This readout system is being deployed for balloon-borne and ground based cosmology…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-05-13 Matt Dobbs , Eric Bissonnette , Helmuth Spieler

We detail a new fast radio burst (FRB) survey with the Molonglo Radio Telescope, in which six FRBs were detected between June 2017 and December 2018. By using a real-time FRB detection system, we captured raw voltages for five of the six…

We report the first detection of a glitch in the radio pulsar PSR J0908$-$4913 (PSR B0906$-$49) during regular timing observations by the Molonglo Observatory Synthesis Telescope (MOST) as part of the UTMOST project.

The 4MOST consortium is currently halfway through a Conceptual Design study for ESO with the aim to develop a wide-field (>3 square degree, goal >5 square degree), high-multiplex (>1500 fibres, goal 3000 fibres) spectroscopic survey…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Roelof S. de Jong , Olga Bellido-Tirado , Cristina Chiappini , Éric Depagne , Roger Haynes , Diane Johl , Olivier Schnurr , Axel Schwope , Jakob Walcher , Frank Dionies , Dionne Haynes , Andreas Kelz , Francisco S. Kitaura , Georg Lamer , Ivan Minchev , Volker Müller , Sebastián E. Nuza , Jean-Christophe Olaya , Tilmann Piffl , Emil Popow , Matthias Steinmetz , Uğur Ural , Mary Williams , Roland Winkler , Lutz Wisotzki , Wolfgang R. Ansorgb , Manda Banerji , Eduardo Gonzalez Solares , Mike Irwin , Robert C. Kennicutt , David King , Richard McMahon , Sergey Koposov , Ian R. Parry , Nicholas A. Walton , Gert Finger , Olaf Iwert , Mirko Krumpe , Jean-Louis Lizon , Mainieri Vincenzo , Jean-Philippe Amans , Piercarlo Bonifacio , Mathieu Cohen , Patrick Francois , Pascal Jagourel , Shan B. Mignot , Frédéric Royer , Paola Sartoretti , Ralf Bender , Frank Grupp , Hans-Joachim Hess , Florian Lang-Bardl , Bernard Muschielok , Hans Böhringer , Thomas Boller , Angela Bongiorno , Marcella Brusa , Tom Dwelly , Andrea Merloni , Kirpal Nandra , Mara Salvato , Johannes H. Pragt , Ramón Navarro , Gerrit Gerlofsma , Ronald Roelfsema , Gavin B. Dalton , Kevin F. Middleton , Ian A. Tosh , Corrado Boeche , Elisabetta Caffau , Norbert Christlieb , Eva K. Grebel , Camilla Hansen , Andreas Koch , Hans-G. Ludwig , Andreas Quirrenbach , Luca Sbordone , Walter Seifert , Guido Thimm , Trifon Trifonov , Amina Helmi , Scott C. Trager , Sofia Feltzing , Andreas Korn , Wilfried Boland

The first epoch Molonglo Galactic Plane Survey (MGPS1) is a radio continuum survey made using the Molonglo Observatory Synthesis Telescope (MOST) at 843 MHz with a resolution of 43" X 43" cosec |delta|. The region surveyed is 245 deg < l <…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. J. Green , L. E. Cram , M. I. Large , Taisheng Ye

With a collecting area of 70 000 m^2, the Five hundred metre Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) will allow for great advances in pulsar astronomy. We have performed simulations to estimate the number of previously unknown pulsars FAST will…

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Multi-Application Solar Telescope (MAST) is a 50 cm off-axis Gregorian telescope and started operational recently at Udaipur Solar Observatory (USO). For understanding the evolution and dynamics of solar magnetic and velocity fields, an…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-07 Alok Ranjan Tiwary , Shibu K. Mathew , A. Raja Bayanna , P. Venkatakrishnan , Rahul Yadav

The Mingantu Spectral Radioheliograph (MUSER), a new generation of solar dedicated radio imaging-spectroscopic telescope, has realized high-time, high-angular, and high-frequency resolution imaging of the sun over an ultra-broadband…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-17 Zhichao Zhou , Yihua Yan , Linjie Chen , Wei Wang , Suli Ma

We report the detection of a glitch event in the pulsar J1709$-$4429 (also known as B1706$-$44) during regular monitoring observations with the Molonglo Observatory Synthesis Telescope (UTMOST). The glitch was found during timing…

We present the first interferometric detections of Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs), an enigmatic new class of astrophysical transient. In a 180-day survey of the Southern sky we discovered 3 FRBs at 843 MHz with the UTMOST array, as part of…

While pulsars possess exceptional rotational stability, large scale timing studies have revealed at least two distinct types of irregularities in their rotation: red timing noise and glitches. Using modern Bayesian techniques, we…

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