The Cagliari pulsar group is part of the Cagliari Astronomical Observatory. We study many aspects of pulsar astronomy including pulsar timing, the origin and evolution of pulsars, pulsar emission properties and mechanisms and the connection between radio pulsars and other neutron stars.

In the last decade we have been heavily involved in searches for pulsars using the Parkes radio telescope: using the 21cm multibeam receiver, the PM survey has more than doubled the number of known pulsars; in the PH survey we found the first double pulsar system J0737-3039A/B (Burgay et al. 2003, Nature; Lyne et al. 2004, Science).

Major collaborations involve the Jodrell Bank pulsar group in Manchester (England), the ATNF pulsar group, in Sydney (Australia) and the Swinburne pulsar group, in Melbourne (Australia). We are also part of the European Pulsar Timing Array collaboration.