A MeerKAT view of pulsars in globular clusters: exotic systems, magnetic fields and non-luminous masses
The presence of a large population of exotic pulsars within globular clusters (GCs) presents a unique opportunity to study the properties of the pulsars and of the GCs themselves. The high concentration of these pulsars and the beamforming capabilities of the backends at MeerKAT allow us to observe all the pulsars in a GC simultaneously. Thanks to this, multiple scientific avenues in different fields can be explored at once.
Within the large survey project MeerTIME, an important number of hours have been devoted to these objects with significant results. The results cover a wide range of topics like the determination of orbital parameters for exotic binary systems, the study of giant pulse emitting pulsars, the first study of multiple consecutive eclipses, the detection of a magnetic field within the gas of a GC and the modeling of the non-luminous mass content in the cores of GCs.