The Parkes Multibeam Pulsar Survey: preliminary results
Astrophysics
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
A high-frequency survey of the Galactic plane for radio pulsars is in progress, using the multibeam receiver on the 64-m Parkes radiotelescope. We describe the survey motivations, the observing plan and the inital results. The survey is discovering many pulsars, more than 500 so far. Eight of the new pulsars are binary, one with a massive companion. At least eight are young, with characteristic ages of less than 100 kyr. Two of these (Kaspi et al, this Conference) have surface dipole magnetic field strengths greater than any other known radio pulsar.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9911482,
title = {The Parkes Multibeam Pulsar Survey: preliminary results},
author = {N. D'Amico and A. G. Lyne and R. N. Manchester and F. M. Camilo and V. M. Kaspi and J. Bell and I. H. Stairs and F. Crawford and D. Morris and A. Possenti},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9911482},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
4 pages, 2 figures, to be published in proceedings of: "X-ray Astronomy '999", Bologna, Italy, 1999