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High sensitivity radio searches of unassociated $\gamma$-ray sources have proven to be an effective way of finding new pulsars. Using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) during its commissioning phase, we have…

We have surveyed all 22 known Galactic globular clusters observable with the Arecibo radio telescope and within 70kpc of the Sun for radio pulsations at ~1.4GHz. Data were taken with the Wideband Arecibo Pulsar Processor, which provided the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. W. T. Hessels , S. M. Ransom , I. H. Stairs , V. M. Kaspi , P. C. C. Freire

Pulsar searching with next-generation radio telescopes requires efficiently sifting through millions of candidates generated by search pipelines to identify the most promising ones. This challenge has motivated the utilization of Artificial…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-11 Qiuyang Fu , Mengyao Xue , Weiwei Zhu , N. D. R. Bhat , Kaichao Wu , Zihan Zhang , B. W. Meyers , Chia Min Tan , Youling Yue , Jiarui Niu , Lingqi Meng , Ziwei Wu , Ziyao Fang , Yukai Zhou , Jiawei Jin

This catalog summarizes 117 high-confidence > 0.1 GeV gamma-ray pulsar detections using three years of data acquired by the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on the Fermi satellite. Half are neutron stars discovered using LAT data, through…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-09-25 LAT collaboration

The FAST All Sky H I survey (FASHI) will cover the entire observable sky ($\sim$22000 square degrees) with the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST). With the currently released data, we perform an untargeted survey…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-12-13 Chuan-Peng Zhang , Ming Zhu , Peng Jiang , Cheng Cheng , Jin-Long Xu , Nai-Ping Yu , Xiao-Lan Liu , Bo Zhang

The Murchison Widefield Array (MWA), and its recently-developed Voltage Capture System (VCS), facilitates extending the low-frequency range of pulsar observations at high-time and -frequency resolution in the Southern Hemisphere, providing…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-23 Mengyao Xue , N. D. R. Bhat , S. E. Tremblay , S. M. Ord , C. Sobey , N. A. Swainston , D. L. Kaplan , Simon Johnston , B. W. Meyers , S. J. McSweeney

The Green Bank Telescope (GBT) is the largest fully steerable radio telescope in the world and is one of our greatest tools for discovering and studying radio pulsars. Over the last decade, the GBT has successfully found over 100 new…

The existence of a population of millisecond pulsars in the Galactic bulge is supported, along with other evidence, by the Fermi GeV excess, an anomalous {\gamma}-ray emission detected almost 15 years ago in the direction of the Galactic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-19 J. Berteaud , F. Calore , M. Clavel , J. Marvil , S. Hyman , F. K. Schinzel , M. Kerr

Modern pulsar surveys produce many millions of candidate pulsars, far more than can be individually inspected. Traditional methods for filtering these candidates, based upon the signal-to-noise ratio of the detection, cannot easily…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. J. Keith , R. P. Eatough , A. G. Lyne , M. Kramer , A. Possenti , F. Camilo , R. N. Manchester

This paper details on the discovery of 21 pulsars using the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT) from targeted (Fermi directed search) and blind surveys (GMRT High Resolution Southern Sky - GHRSS) and results from the follow up studies.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-22 Bhaswati Bhattacharyya

We present the big-data challenges posed by the science operation of the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST). Unlike the common usage of the word `big-data', which tend to emphasize both quantity and diversity, the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-14 Youling Yue , Di Li

The Fermi Large Area Telescope (Fermi-LAT) has recently revealed a large population of gamma-ray emitting millisecond pulsars (MSPs) in our Galaxy. We aim to infer the properties of the Galactic population of gamma-ray emitting MSPs from…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-15 Tristan Grégoire , Jürgen Knödlseder

Analogously to globular clusters, the dense stellar environment of the Galactic center has been proposed to host a large population of as-yet undetected millisecond pulsars (MSPs). Recently, this hypothesis found support in the analysis of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-09-13 Francesca Calore , Mattia Di Mauro , Fiorenza Donato , Jason W. T. Hessels , Christoph Weniger

The turbulent ionized interstellar medium diffracts radio waves and makes them propagate in multiple paths. The pulse-broadening observed at low frequencies results from the scattering effect of interstellar clouds of ionized gas. During…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-18 W. C. Jing , J. L. Han , C. Wang , P. F. Wang , T. Wang , N. N. Cai , J. Xu , Z. L. Yang , D. J. Zhou , Yi Yan , W. Q. Su , X. Y. Gao , L. Xie

Radio pulsars are unique laboratories for a wide range of physics and astrophysics. Understanding how they are created, how they evolve and where we find them in the Galaxy, with or without binary companions, is highly constraining of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-02-26 Victoria M. Kaspi , Michael Kramer

The Fermi observatory was launched on June 11, 2008. It hosts the \emph{Large Area Telescope} (LAT), sensitive to $\gamma$-ray photons from 20 MeV to over 300 GeV. When the LAT began its activity, nine young and energetic pulsars were known…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-10-27 Lucas Guillemot

Distance measurements of gamma-ray pulsars are challenging questions in present pulsar studies. The Large Area Telescope (LAT) aboard the Fermi gamma-ray observatory discovered more than 70 gamma-ray pulsars including 24 new gamma-selected…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 W. Wang

Observations of pulsars with the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on the Fermi satellite have revolutionized our view of the gamma-ray pulsar population. For the first time, a large number of young gamma-ray pulsars have been discovered in blind…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-15 L. Guillemot

We have conducted a VLA search for radio pulsars at the positions of 44 nearby OB runaway stars. The observations involved both searching images for point sources of continuum emission and a time series analysis. Our mean flux sensitivity…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Colin J. Philp , Charles R. Evans , Peter J. T. Leonard , Dale A. Frail

We have conducted a search for radio pulsars in six Galactic stellar binary systems having unseen primary stars. All six systems have estimated primary masses in the range that could be consistent with neutron stars. We used the Green Bank…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-03 Melanie Ficarra , Fronefield Crawford , T. Joseph W. Lazio