Team - MeerTime

Some of MeerTime's members visiting for a commissioning run in late 2017.

Meet Our Team

MeerTime brings together pulsar experts from South Africa and around the world and is comprised of eleven institutions from four continents. MeerTime has a chair, an institutional contact for each institution, four science themes with leaders, and various working groups and chairs.

MeerTime is on Slack

MeerTime Chair:

The current MeerTime chair is Professor Matthew Bailes (Swinburne University of Technology). His contact details are here.

MeerTime Member Representatives:

ASTRON: Dr. Gemma Janssen
Auckland University of Technology: Dr. Willem van Straten
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique & Université d'Orléans: Dr. Gilles Theureau
CSIRO Astronomy and Space Sciences: Dr. Simon Johnston
International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research - Curtin: Dr. Ramesh Bhat
Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy: Dr. Michael Kramer
National Institute for Astrophysics: Dr. Andrea Possenti
National Radio Astronomy Observatory: Dr. Scott Ransom
South African Radio Astronomy Observatory: Dr. Fernando Camilo
Swinburne University of Technology: Prof. Matthew Bailes
University of British Columbia: Professor Ingrid Stairs
University of Manchester: Professor Benjamin Stappers
University of Oxford: Professor Aris Karastergiou
West Virginia University: Professor Maura McLaughlin

Builders Working Group Leaders:

Scheduling Tools: Aditya Parthasarathy
Simulation: Renee Spiewak
DAQ Hardware: Andrew Jameson
DAQ Software: Andrew Jameson
Databases: Ewan Barr?

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Pipelines:

RFI Rejection: Aditya Parthasarathy?
Polarimetric Calibration: Willem van Straten & Aris Karastergiou?
Decimated data: Renee Spiewak?

Archiving:

Raw Data & Metadata: SARAO Staff???
Calibrated data: Aris Karastergiou???
Decimated data: Ryan Shannon???

Absolute Timing: Sarah Buchner
Data Distribution to Mirrors: Joeri van Leeuwen
International Mirror sites: Joeri van Leeuwen, +...
ToA Computation: Stefan Oslowski
Documentation: ???
Web Portals: ???
MeerTime Website: Matthew Bailes

Commissioning:

Observing Strategy: Ryan Shannon

Governance:

Policies: Matthew Bailes
Communications: Matthew Bailes
Finances: Matthew Bailes
Reporting: Matthew Bailes

Science Theme Leaders:

Millisecond Pulsars and Gravitational Wave Detection: Gemma Janssen, Ryan Shannon, Matthew Bailes?
Relativistic and Binary Pulsars: Michael Kramer, Ramesh Bhat, Ingrid Stairs?
Globular Cluster Timing: Scott Ransom, Andrea Possenti, Ingrid Stairs?
1000 Pulsar Array: Aris Karastergiou, Simon Johnston, Ramesh Bhat?

MeerTime Member Institutions:

ASTRON

ASTRON operates the Dutch radio astronomy facilities and are experts in pulsar discovery and timing

Auckland University of Technology

Meet Our Team

MeerTime Chair:

MeerTime Member Representatives:

Builders Working Group Leaders:

Commissioning:

Governance:

Science Theme Leaders:

MeerTime Member Institutions:

ASTRON

ASTRON operates the Dutch radio astronomy facilities and are experts in pulsar discovery and timing

Auckland University of Technology

AUT is leading efforts to design the SKA pulsar processor

CNRS and University of Orleans

CNRS operate the powerful Nancay Telescope and are experts at pulsar timing

CSIRO Astronomy and Space Sciences

CSIRO has been a world leader in pulsar astronomy since their discovery in the 1960s

ICRAR - Curtin

ICRAR are experts at low frequency pulsar astronomy and studies of giant pulses

Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy

The MPIfR is renowned for its work in timing relativistic binary pulsars

INAF

INAF operates the Sardinia 64m telescope and are experts in pulsar surveys

NRAO

NRAO pulsar astronomers are experts in observations of globular cluster pulsars

SARAO

SARAO hosts the MeerKAT
radio telescope

Swinburne University of Technology

Swinburne's pulsar group are world leaders in precision pulsar timing

University of British Columbia

UBC are renowned for their expertise in the timing of relativistic binary pulsars

University of Manchester

The University of Manchester operates the Lovell 76m telescope and have a proud tradition in radio pulsar timing

University of Oxford

The University of Oxford is known for its work on the pulsar emission mechanism

West Virginia University

WVU have played a leading role in the establishment of NANOgrav, the North American pulsar timing array

Meet Our Team

MeerTime Chair:

MeerTime Member Representatives:

Builders Working Group Leaders:

Commissioning:

Governance:

Science Theme Leaders:

MeerTime Member Institutions:

ASTRON

ASTRON operates the Dutch radio astronomy facilities and are experts in pulsar discovery and timing

Auckland University of Technology

AUT is leading efforts to design the SKA pulsar processor

CNRS and University of Orleans

CNRS operate the powerful Nancay Telescope and are experts at pulsar timing

CSIRO Astronomy and Space Sciences

CSIRO has been a world leader in pulsar astronomy since their discovery in the 1960s

ICRAR - Curtin

ICRAR are experts at low frequency pulsar astronomy and studies of giant pulses

Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy

The MPIfR is renowned for its work in timing relativistic binary pulsars

INAF

INAF operates the Sardinia 64m telescope and are experts in pulsar surveys

NRAO

NRAO pulsar astronomers are experts in observations of globular cluster pulsars

SARAO

SARAO hosts the MeerKAT​radio telescope

Swinburne University of Technology

Swinburne's pulsar group are world leaders in precision pulsar timing

University of British Columbia

UBC are renowned for their expertise in the timing of relativistic binary pulsars

University of Manchester

The University of Manchester operates the Lovell 76m telescope and have a proud tradition in radio pulsar timing

University of Oxford

The University of Oxford is known for its work on the pulsar emission mechanism

West Virginia University

WVU have played a leading role in the establishment of NANOgrav, the North American pulsar timing array

SARAO hosts the MeerKAT
radio telescope