Galactic transient discoveries of the MeerTRAP commensal survey
Description
The more Transients and Pulsars (MeerTRAP) survey has been carrying out a commensal MeerKAT survey continuously for over four years. In that time, we have amassed thousands of hours observing with the FBFUSE beamformer as well as our custom back-end, TUSE, performing a search for transient single pulses in real time. This has led to the discovery of over 100 new fast radio transient sources such as pulsars, RRATs, magnetars, and extragalactic FRBs.
In this talk, I will outline our discoveries of sources within the Galaxy, amounting to about two new transients per month of observing. I will also describe the results of ongoing follow-up efforts of these sources using various telescopes.
Finally, I will showcase some of our most notable discoveries, such as the
exceptionally intermittent PSR J1710-3452, as well as the renowned 76-second pulsar, J1901-4046.
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