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© LEAP collaboration
On 27 July 2013, the Sardinia Radio Telescope joined in for its very first LEAP observation. It also meant the first LEAP observation in which all 5 telescopes participated.
LEAP is the Large European Array for Pulsars, an ERC-funded project in which 5 powerful European radio telescopes are phased up to observe and time millisecond pulsars with Arecibo-like sensitivity. Its purpose is to detect and study the gravitational waves emitted from supermassive black hole binary mergers.
The image shows the 5 telescopes as they participated in the LEAP-run: the Lovell Telescope (top left), Effelsberg (top right), the WSRT (middle left), the Sardinia Radio Telescope (middle right) and the Nançay Radio Telescope (bottom). Except for Nançay, all pictures were taken during the first 5-telescope LEAP observation.
