CHIME 脉冲星项目:系统概述
天体物理仪器与方法
2021-08-18 v2
摘要
我们介绍了为加拿大氢强度映射实验(CHIME)构建的数字后端的的设计、实现与性能,该后端利用加速计算观测射电脉冲星与瞬变射电源。运行时,CHIME 相关器为 CHIME/脉冲星后端输出 10 路独立的波束成形数据流,后者对指定天球位置进行数字跟踪。这 10 路独立数据流均由 CHIME/脉冲星后端系统处理,该系统可实时相干去色散,最大色散量度达 2500 pc/cm。跟踪波束与实时分析系统由一种基于优先级的算法自主控制,该算法以短至一天的观测节奏安排已知源与感兴趣位置的观测。鉴于已知脉冲星与射电瞬变源的分布,CHIME/脉冲星系统每个恒星日可监测多达 900 个位置,并每约 2 周观测一次所有赤纬大于 的源。我们还讨论了 CHIME/脉冲星当前数据采集模式所支撑的以计时与搜寻实验为核心的科学计划。
引用
@article{arxiv.2008.05681,
title = {The CHIME Pulsar Project: System Overview},
author = {Pulsar Collaboration and M. Amiri and K. M. Bandura and P. J. Boyle and C. Brar and J. F. Cliche and K. Crowter and D. Cubranic and P. B. Demorest and N. T. Denman and M. Dobbs and F. Q. Dong and M. Fandino and E. Fonseca and D. C. Good and M. Halpern and A. S. Hill and C. Höfer and V. M. Kaspi and T. L. Landecker and C. Leung and H. -H. Lin and J. Luo and K. W. Masui and J. W. McKee and J. Mena-Parra and B. W. Meyers and D. Michilli and A. Naidu and L. Newburgh and C. Ng and C. Patel and T. Pinsonneault-Marotte and S. M. Ransom and A. Renard and P. Scholz and J. R. Shaw and A. E. Sikora and I. H. Stairs and C. M. Tan and S. P. Tendulkar and I. Tretyakov and K. Vanderlinde and H. Wang and X. Wang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2008.05681},
year = {2021}
}
备注
18 pages, 9 figures, 1 table. Submitted to ApJS