Pulsar Searches with the SKA
Abstract
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 pulsars to increase the currently known population by a factor of four, no doubt including a range of amazing unknown sources. Real time processing is needed to deal with the 60 PB of pulsar search data collected per day, using a signal processing pipeline required to perform more than 10 POps. Here we present the suggested design of the pulsar search engine for the SKA and discuss challenges and solutions to the pulsar search venture.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1712.01008,
title = {Pulsar Searches with the SKA},
author = {L. Levin and W. Armour and C. Baffa and E. Barr and S. Cooper and R. Eatough and A. Ensor and E. Giani and A. Karastergiou and R. Karuppusamy and M. Keith and M. Kramer and R. Lyon and M. Mackintosh and M. Mickaliger and R van Nieuwpoort and M. Pearson and T. Prabu and J. Roy and O. Sinnen and L. Spitler and H. Spreeuw and B. W. Stappers and W. van Straten and C. Williams and H. Wang and K. Wiesner},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1712.01008},
year = {2018}
}
Comments
4 pages, 1 figure. To be published in Proceedings of IAU Symposium 337: Pulsar Astrophysics - The Next 50 Years