The unique sensitivity of the Arecibo telescope at 430 MHz motivated a drift scan search of the visible sky divided up into eight declination strips. Based on an analysis of the data collected in the region assigned to us, eight new long-period pulsars have so far been discovered.
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9911012,
title = {Slow pulsars from the STScI/NAIC drift scan search},
author = {K. Xilouris and A. Fruchter and D. R. Lorimer and J. Eder and A. Vazquez},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9911012},
year = {2007}
}
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2 pages, 1 figure, to appear in the proceedings of the IAU 177 meeting - Pulsar Astronomy 2000 and beyond, replaced typos