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The Berkeley ATA Pulsar Processor (BAPP) was deployed by Peter McMahon and Joeri van Leeuwen to the Allen Telescope Array in March 2008, and had first light in April. The BAPP centrepiece is a 104MHz dual polarization, 2048-channel, fast-readout spectrometer that has a direct digital connection to the ATA beamformer. It is intended for incoherent dedispersion-based pulsar studies.

BAPP was developed as part of the Pulsar Machine Development At Berkeley CASPER program. Engineering was done by Peter McMahon, with advice and supervision from Don Backer, Joeri van Leeuwen and Dan Werthimer. Joeri is currently overseeing the science operations of BAPP.

Current Status

April 2008: BAPP currently receives a single beam, dual polarization, from the ATA beamformer. There are plans to expand the beamformer to output more beams - once this has been completed, we plan to correspondingly increase the capabilities of BAPP to handle more beams, with the ultimate aim of being able to carry out simultaneous multi-frequency pulsar observations.