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Young energetic pulsars will likely be the largest class of Galactic sources observed by GLAST, with many hundreds detected. Many will be unknown as radio pulsars, making pulsation detection dependent on radio and/or x-ray observations or…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Scott M. Ransom

Radio astronomy is part of radio science that developed rapidly in recent decades. In the research of radio astronomy, pulsars have always been an enduring popular research target. To find and observe more pulsars, large radio telescopes…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-24 Yuxiao Wu , Dejiang Yin , Yu Pan , Liyun Zhang , Zhichen Pan , Lei Qian , Baoda Li , Yinfeng Dai , Yaowei Li , Xingnan Zhang , Minghui Li , Yifeng Li

The Parkes multibeam pulsar survey has unlocked vast areas of the Galactic plane which were previously invisible to earlier low-frequency and less-sensitive surveys. The survey has discovered more than 600 new pulsars so far, including many…

Pulsars have traditionally been used for research into fundamental physics and astronomy. In this paper, we investigate the expanding applications of radio pulsars in societal and industrial domains beyond their conventional scientific…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-11 D. Kaur , G. Hobbs , A. Zic , J. R. Dawson , J. Morgan , W. Ling , S. Camtepe , J. Pieprzyk , M. C. M. Cheung

The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) is by far the largest telescope of any kind ever built. FAST produced its first light in September 2016 and it is now under commissioning, with normal operation to commence in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-15 Di Li , John M. Dickey , Shu Liu

We report five new fast radio bursts (FRBs) discovered from the Galactic Plane Pulsar Snapshot (GPPS) survey by the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST): FRB\,20210126, FRB\,20210208, FRB\,20210705, FRB\,20211005 and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-12 D. J. Zhou , J. L. Han , W. C. Jing , P. F. Wang , C. Wang , T. Wang , W. -Y. Wang , R. Luo , J. Xu , R. X. Xu , H. G. Wang

I discuss methods and current software packages for radio searches for pulsars and short-duration transients. I then describe the properties of the current pulsar population and the status of and predictions for ongoing and future surveys.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Maura McLaughlin

We have embarked on a survey for pulsars and fast transients using the 13-beam Multibeam receiver on the Parkes radio telescope. Installation of a digital backend allows us to record 400 MHz of bandwidth for each beam, split into 1024…

The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) is the most sensitive radio telescope for pulsar observations. We make polarimetric measurements of a large number of faint and distant pulsars using the FAST. We present the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-12-01 Jun Xu , Jinlin Han , Pengfei Wang , Yi Yan

We have used the Effelsberg 100-m radio telescope to conduct a 1400-MHz ($\lambda$ 21-cm) search for young and rapidly rotating radio pulsars along a 2 deg$^2$ strip of the northern Galactic plane defined by $28^{\circ} \leq l \leq…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. R. Lorimer , M. Kramer , P. Mueller , N. Wex , A. Jessner , C. Lange , R. Wielebinski

The radiative mechanism of coherent radio emission has remained an enigma since the discovery of pulsars, even the emergence of fast radio bursts (FRBs), which exhibit similarities to the single-pulse behavior of pulsars and have opened a…

The search of pulsars in monitoring observations being carried out for 5 years using LPA LPI radio telescope was done in 96 spatial beams covering daily 17,000 square degrees. Five new pulsars were detected. Candidates into pulsars were…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-04-21 S. A. Tyul'bashev , M. A. Kitaeva , V. S. Tyul'bashev , V. M. Malofeev , G. E. Tyul'basheva

Having achieved 'first-light' right before the opening ceremony on September 25, 2016, the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) is being busily commissioned. Its innovative design requires ~1000 points to be measured…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-09 Di Li , Pei Wang , Lei Qian , Marko Krco , Alex Dunning , Peng Jiang , Youling Yue , Chenjin Jin , Yan Zhu , Zhichen Pan , Rendong Nan

The Commensal Radio Astronomy Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) Survey (CRAFTS) utilizes the novel drift-scan commensal survey mode of FAST and can generate billions of pulsar candidate signals. The human experts…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-18 Hongfeng Wang , Weiwei Zhu , Ping Guo , Di Li , Sibo Feng , Qian Yin , Chenchen Miao , Zhenzhao Tao , Zhichen Pan , Pei Wang , Xin Zheng , Xiaodan Deng Zhijie Liu , Xiaoyao Xie , Xuhong Yu , Shanping You , Hui Zhang

We present phase-connected timing ephemerides, polarization pulse profiles and Faraday rotation measurements of 12 pulsars discovered by the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) in the Commensal Radio Astronomy FAST…

The Square Kilometre Array will be an amazing instrument for pulsar astronomy. While the full SKA will be sensitive enough to detect all pulsars in the Galaxy visible from Earth, already with SKA1, pulsar searches will discover enough…

Globular clusters are highly efficient radio pulsar factories. These pulsars can be used as precision probes of the clusters' structure, gas content, magnetic field, and formation history; some of them are also highly interesting in their…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-01-05 J. W. T. Hessels , A. Possenti , M. Bailes , C. G. Bassa , P. C. C. Freire , D. R. Lorimer , R. Lynch , S. M. Ransom , I. H. Stairs

Pulsar Timing Array (PTA) experiments exploit the clock-like behaviour of an array of millisecond pulsars, with the goal of detecting low-frequency gravitational waves. PTA experiments have been in operation over the last decade, led by…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-28 Caterina Tiburzi

We present the results of Green Bank Telescope (GBT) observations of two pulsars discovered with the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST) during the 19-beam Commensal Radio Astronomy FasT Survey (CRAFTS). We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-09 Victoria A. Blackmon , Maura A. McLaughlin , De Zhao , Jianping Yuan , Qingdong Wu , Chen-Chen Miao , Meng-Yao Xue , Di Li , Wei-Wei Zhu

The search for pulsars in a sample of pulsar candidates found based on a multi-year survey conducted with low (6 channels; sampling 0.1s) time-frequency resolution on declinations -9^o < \delta < +42^o was carried out. A Large Phased Array…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-10-26 S. A. Tyul'bashev , M. A. Kitaeva , G. E. Tyul'basheva