PuMA Collaboration

         Pulsar Monitoring in Argentina

Research

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About PuMA

First pulsar observations in South America

PuMa, Pulsar Monitoring in Argentina, is a scientific collaboration dedicated to pulsar observation from the south hemisphere. The team, integrated by scientist and technicians from the Argentine Institute of Radioastronomy (IAR) and the Rochester Institute of Technolgy (RIT), is currently working with the two 30 meters single-dish radio antennas in the Institute. Our main goal is to perform long-term observational campaign of pulsars -rapidly-rotating and highly-magnetized neutron stars- to gain a better understanding of their nature. In particular, we observe milisecond pulsars used in pulsar timing arrays and glitching pulsars.

Papers published in international journals

Glitch-induced pulse profile change of PSR J0742−2822 observed from the IAR

E. Zubieta, F. García, S. del Palacio, C. M. Espinoza, S. B. Araujo Furlan, G. Gancio, C. O. Lousto, J. A. Combi and E. Gügercinoğlu.

Timing irregularities and glitches from the pulsar monitoring campaign at IAR

E. Zubieta, F. García, S. del Palacio, S. B. Araujo Furlan, G. Gancio, C. O. Lousto, J. A. Combi, and C. M. Espinoza.

First results of the glitching pulsars monitoring program at the Argentine Institute of Radioastronomy

Ezequiel Zubieta, Ryan Missel, Valentina Sosa Fiscella, Carlos O. Lousto, Santiago del Palacio, Federico G. López Armengol, Federico García, Jorge A. Combi, Linwei Wang, Luciano Combi, Guillermo Gancio, Carolina Negrelli and Eduardo M. Gutiérrez.

Vela pulsar: single pulses analysis with machine learning techniques

Carlos O Lousto, Ryan Missel, Harshkumar Prajapati, Valentina Sosa Fiscella, Federico G López Armengol, Prashnna Kumar Gyawali, Linwei Wang, Nathan D Cahill, Luciano Combi, Santiago del Palacio, Jorge A Combi, Guillermo Gancio, Federico García, Eduardo M Gutiérrez and Fernando Hauscarriaga.

PSR J0437-4715: The Argentine Institute of Radioastronomy 2019–2020 Observational Campaign

V. Sosa Fiscella, S. del Palacio, L. Combi, C. O. Lousto, J. A. Combi, G. Gancio, F. García, E. Gutiérrez, F. Hauscarriaga, P. Kornecki, F. G. López Armengol, G. C. Mancuso, A. L. Müller and A. Simaz Bunzel.

Upgraded antennas for pulsar observations in the Argentine Institute of Radio astronomy

G. Gancio, C.O. Lousto, L. Combi, S. del Palacio, F.G. López Armengol, J.A. Combi, F. García, P. Kornecki, A.L. Müller, E. Gutierrez, F. Hauscarriaga and G. C.Mancuso.

Proceedings

Updates on the Glitching Pulsar Monitoring Campaign Performed from IAR

Zubieta, E. ; del Palacio, S. ; García, F. ; Araujo Furlan, S. B. search by orcid ; Gancio, G. ; Lousto, C. O. and Combi, J. A.

Prospects for Detecting Fast Transients with the Radio Telescopes of the Argentine Institute of Radio Astronomy

Araujo Furlan, Susana Beatriz; Zubieta, Ezequiel ; Gancio, Guillermo ; Esteban Romero, Gustavo ; del Palacio, Santiago ; García, Federico search by orcid ; Lousto, Carlos Oscar and Combi, Jorge Ariel

Pulsar Observations at low latitudes and low frequencies

Carlos O. Lousto, R. Missel, E. Zubieta, S. del Palacio, F. Garcia, G. Gancio, L. Wang, S.B. Araujo Furlan and J.A. Combi

Telegrams

Detection of a new giant glitch in the Vela Pulsar observed from the Argentine Institute of Radio astronomy

ATel #16608; E. Zubieta, S. B. Araujo Furlan, S. del Palacio, F. Garcia, G. Gancio, C. O. Lousto, J. A. Combi, on behalf of the PuMA Collaboration.

Detection of a new glitch in PSR J1048-5832 observed from the Argentine Institute of Radio astronomy

ATel #16580; E. Zubieta, S. B. Araujo Furlan, S. del Palacio, F. Garcia, G. Gancio, C. O. Lousto, J. A. Combi, on behalf of the PuMA Collaboration.

Detection of a new glitch in the pulsar PSR J1740-3015Detection of a new glitch in the pulsar PSR J1740-3015

ATel #15838; E. Zubieta, S. B. Araujo Furlan, S. del Palacio, F. Garcia, G. Gancio, C. O. Lousto, J. A. Combi, L. Combi, on behalf of the PuMA Collaboration.

Confirmation of glitch event observed in PSR J0742-2822 at the Argentine Institute of Radioastronomy (IAR)

ATel #15638; E. Zubieta, S. del Palacio, F. Garcia, G. Gancio, C. O. Lousto, J. A. Combi, L. Combi, E. Gutierrez, F. A. Lopez-Armengol, A. Simaz Bunzel, V. Sosa-Fiscella, on behalf of the PuMA Collaboration.

A new Glitch in the Vela Pulsar (PSR B0833-45/PSR J0835-4510)

ATel #14806; V. Sosa-Fiscella, E. Zubieta, S. del Palacio, F. Garcia, F. A. Lopez-Armengol, J. A. Combi, C. O. Lousto, G. Gancio, L. Combi, E. Gutierrez, A. Simaz Bunzel, F. Hauscarriaga, on behalf of the PuMA Collaboration.

Follow up of the radio flare from the magnetar XTE J1810-197 at 1.4 GHz

ATel #12323; S. del Palacio, F. Garcia, L. Combi, F. Lopez Armengol, G. Gancio, A. L. Muller, P. Kornecki,on behalf of the PuMA Collaboration.


Project

Science

We are the first group dedicated to pulsar science in Argentina. This includes studies on glitching pulsars, milisecond pulsars, dynamics of the interestellar medium, magnetars, and more. We are also interested in radio transients like Fast Radio Burst and magnetar burst.

Technical developments

The IAR is a pioneer center for develpoments in radio astronomy and radio communications in Argentina. In the last two years, in collaboration with the Rochester Institue of Technology, we have refurbished and upgrade the Antennas for high-quality science in pulsar physics.

Collaborations

We are actively working with members from international collaboration such as NANOGrav, Parkes, and LIGO.


People

Jorge Combi

Researcher
Argentine Institute of Radioastronomy, Arg

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Federico Garcia

Researcher
Argentine Institute of Radioastornomy, Arg

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Carlos Lousto

Researcher
Rochester Institute of Technology, USA

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Guillermo Gancio

Chief Technician
Argentine Institute of Radioastronomy, Arg

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Santiago del Palacio

Posdoc
Chalmers University of Technology, Swe

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Ezequiel Zubieta

PhD student
Argentine Institute of Radioastronomy, Arg

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S. B. Araujo Furlan

PhD student
National University of Cordoba, Arg

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Valentina Sosa Fiscella

PhD student
Rochester Institute of Technology, USA

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Fernando Hauscarriaga

Software Development
Argentine Institute of Radioastronomy, Arg


Argentine Institute of Radioastronomy Observatory.

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Brief history of IAR

The Argentine Institute of Radio Astronomy (IAR; Instituto Argentino de Radioastronom{\'i}a) was founded in 1966 as a radio observatory with two 30-meter parabolic single-dish radio antenna (Antenna II was built later in 1977). Initially, the IAR's main goal was to make a high sensitivity neutral hydrogen survey of the southern sky; this survey ended satisfactorily in 2000 with a high-impact publication. Even though the Institute has been the center of intense scientific and technological activity since its creation, its radio antennas have not been employed in any scientific project since 2001. For the first time in over fifteen years, the IAR Antennas are being tuned-up to match the requirements of a newly formed team dedicated to observational pulsar astronomy. The development of tools and know-how from scratch makes it a very defying yet promising project.

Antennas Varsavsky (I) and Bajaja (II)

The IAR has two 30 m single-dish antennas, Antenna I and Antenna II. We are currently performing observations using Antenna I with the same receiver used for the HI mapping survey. These radio telescopes cover a declination range from -90 degrees to -9 degrees and an hour angle range 4 hours. The angular resolution at 1420 MHz is 30 arcminutes. Since 2004, several updates and repairs were made, including a complete Front-End repairing in 2009 and a new set of positional encoders installed in 2014 to keep the tracking system up to date. The last addition was a Software Defined Radio (SDR) that allows to perform pulsar measurements from 2015. Antenna II has a newly developed receiver that would be fully operating in the early 2019.


Observational campaigns