Pulsars and neutron stars/Telescopes involved in pulsar research

Introduction Radio telescopes Observatory setup In this section we describe the Parkes observatory in detail. Receivers Backend instruments Observatory time standard The maser system at Parkes does not produce a signal such as a 1 second tick. Instead it produces an accurate 5 MHz waveform. This waveform is read by the clock system (known as the Australia Telescope Distributed Clock, ATDC). The actual day, month and year of that clock are set manually when the clock is started and continually updated with IERSA data. Calibration Arecibo Effelsberg FAST GMRT Green Bank Jodrell Bank Lofar Molonglo MWA Nancay Nanshan Parkes Qitai Sardinia Westerbork X-ray telescopes Gamma-ray telescopes Optical telescopes