Title: Pulsar science with the CHIME telescope,
Abstract: The CHIME telescope (the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment)
recently built in Penticton, Canada, is currently being commissioned.
Originally designed as a cosmology experiment, it was soon recognized that
CHIME has the potential to simultaneously serve as an incredibly useful radio
telescope for pulsar science. CHIME operates across a wide bandwidth of 400-800
MHz and will have a collecting area and sensitivity comparable to that of the
100-m class radio telescopes. CHIME has a huge field of view of ~250 square
degrees. It will be capable of observing 10 pulsars simultaneously, 24-hours
per day, every day, while still accomplishing its missions to study Baryon
Acoustic Oscillations and Fast Radio Bursts. It will carry out daily monitoring
of roughly half of all pulsars in the northern hemisphere, including all
NANOGrav pulsars employed in the Pulsar Timing Array project. It will cycle
through all pulsars in the northern hemisphere with a range of cadence of no
more than 10 days.