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Parkes observations for project P1185 semester 2023APRS_42

Created 21/09/2025

Updated 21/09/2025

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Ultra-long period neutron stars (ULPNSs) are an emerging class of objects that have sparked interest and curiosity in the fast transient community. Along with standard magnetars, they have been theorised to be potential progenitors of the enigmatic fast radio bursts (FRBs). The MeerTRAP project at the MeerKAT radio telescope is uncovering several magnetar and ultra-long period neutron star candidates, an example of which is PSR J0901-4046 with a period of 76s. Continued long-term monitoring of PSR J0901-4046 has shown it to be potentially transitioning into radio quiescence. The proposed observations will enable us to continue to monitor and characterise the decline in flux density. We have also discovered two new candidates MTP0027 and MTP0068 with periods of ~10 seconds and ~5 seconds respectively. Both sources exhibit magnetar-like pulse morphology and have only been detected in one epoch with MeerKAT. We propose to continue monitoring these sources to re-detect pulses and study their spectro-temporal-polarimetric properties.

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Title Parkes observations for project P1185 semester 2023APRS_42
Language English
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/370fbd10-54a7-5433-863b-173272fb9acb
Contact Point
CSIRO Data Access Portal
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Reference Period 01/01/2000
Geospatial Coverage Australia
Data Portal CSIRO DAP

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This dataset was originally found on CSIRO DAP "Parkes observations for project P1185 semester 2023APRS_42". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://data.csiro.au/collection/csiro:65093