To assist with the commissioning (Jiang et al. 2019) of the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST), we performed a pulsar search, with the primary goal of developing and testing the pulsar data acquisition and processing pipelines. We tested and used three pipelines, two (P1 and P2 hereafter) searched for the periodic signature of pulsars whereas the other one was used to search for bright single pulses (P3 hereafter). A pulsar candidate was discovered in the observation on the 22nd August, 2017, and later confirmed by the Parkes radio telescope on the 10th September, 2017. This pulsar, named PSR J1900-0134, was the first pulsar discovered by FAST. The pulsar has a pulse period of 1.8 s and a dispersion measure (DM) of 188\,pc\,cm−3.
@article{arxiv.1903.06318,
title = {The First Pulsar Discovered by FAST},
author = {Lei Qian and Zhichen Pan and Di Li and George Hobbs and Weiwei Zhu and Pei Wang and Zhijie Liu and Youling Yue and Yan Zhu and Hongfei Liu and Dongjun Yu and Jinghai Sun and Peng Jiang and Gaofeng Pan and Hui Li and Hengqian Gan and Rui Yao and Xiaoyao Xie and Fernando Camilo and Andrew Cameron and Lei Zhang and Shen Wang and FAST Project},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1903.06318},
year = {2019}
}