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Description
Millisecond pulsars (MSPs) are exquisite astrophysical tools which provide unique opportunities to advance fundamental physics. The MWA is playing an important role in preparing for SKA science, having recently completed data collection for the Southern-sky MWA Rapid Two-metre (SMART) pulsar survey. With a dwell time of 4800 s and high time/frequency resolutions, SMART will be the most sensitive southern pulsar survey at frequencies below 300 MHz. Several pulsar discoveries have been made, as well as re-detections of over 200 pulsars. To date, very few southern MSPs have been observed at such low frequencies. The SMART data provide a valuable resource for studying the low-frequency characteristics of MSPs, including their spectral properties and profile evolution. Motivated by this, we are performing a census of known MSPs in the SMART data. The census will inform pulsar population simulations to assess the detectable population of MSPs in the SKA-Low band and will feed into plans for performing targeted, high-sensitivity searches for such pulsars. I will present the progress to date from these efforts, including the updated MSP census and initial results from the ongoing searches.
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