The Thousand-Pulsar-Array programme on MeerKAT III: Giant pulse characteristics of PSR J0540$-$6919

Understand

PSR J0540$-$6919 is the second-most energetic radio pulsar known and resides in the Large Magellanic Cloud.

• Like the Crab pulsar it is observed to emit giant radio pulses (GPs).
• We used the newly-commissioned PTUSE instrument on the MeerKAT radio telescope to search for GPs across three observations.
• In a total integration time of 5.7 hrs we detected 865 pulses above our 7$\sigma$ threshold.