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Timing the Parkes Multibeam Pulsars

Astrophysics 2007-05-23 v2

Abstract

Measurement of accurate positions, pulse periods and period derivatives is an essential follow-up to any pulsar survey. The procedures being used to obtain timing parameters for the pulsars discovered in the Parkes multibeam pulsar survey are described. Completed solutions have been obtained so far for about 80 pulsars. They show that the survey is preferentially finding pulsars with higher than average surface dipole magnetic fields. Eight pulsars have been shown to be members of binary systems and some of the more interesting results relating to these are presented.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9911319,
  title  = {Timing the Parkes Multibeam Pulsars},
  author = {R. N. Manchester and A. G. Lyne and F. Camilo and V. M. Kaspi and I. H. Stairs and F. Crawford and D. J. Morris and J. F. Bell and N. D'Amico},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9911319},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

6 pages, 2 embedded EPS figures, to be published in proceedings of "Pulsar Astronomy - 2000 and Beyond", ASP Conf. Ser