Speaker
Ben Stappers
Description
Pulsars in binary systems provide us with excellent
opportunities to
understand their formation and evolution. Over the last few
years
there has been a staggering increase in the number of these
systems
as discovered in radio searches, either blind and
particularly guided
by Fermi. On the near horizon there are a number of
facilities that
provide us with even greater sensitivity to reveal more of these
source types, and those that are predicted and perhaps even
those
that aren’t. I will review some recent discoveries and look
forward to
the prospects for LOFAR, MeerKAT through TRAPUM and MeerTRAP
and then on to the Square Kilometer Array.
