Pulsor observing system and data analysis procedure used at MRT

Abstract

The Mauritius Radio Telescope (MRT) was designed to operate mainly as an imaging instrument to carry out a southern sky survey at 150 MHz. However, it has also been successfully used it for pulsar observations. In this paper, we give an overview of the pulsar observing system we developed for use at MRT. Our pulsar receiver is of the 'direct-recording' type whereby most of the data processing, including dedispersion is done completely offline. The various steps involved in this data processing are also briefly described.