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Description
The Southern-Sky MWA Rapid Two-Metre (SMART) pulsar survey is an ongoing project to search the whole southern sky for pulsars and fast transients with the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) telescope. The observing campaign for SMART has been completed, with 71 80-minute observations taken with the Voltage Capture System (VCS) covering the whole southern sky below 30deg declination. The second pass processing of the SMART observations begun in 2024, where the full 80-minute observations are being processed compared to 10-minute in the first pass, with thousands of tied-array beams being beamformed and searched for each observation. As of May 2025, we have processed 8% of the observation data, which has yielded the discovery of 11 new pulsars , including a 24ms binary pulsar in a long orbit of 833 days . In this talk, I will give an update on the progress of the second pass processing of SMART, including an updated pipeline that incorporates the Fast Folding Algorithm and the properties of the new pulsars discovered by SMART.
