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 distinguish between interference signals and pulsars. We have developed a new method of scoring candidates using a series of heuristics which test for pulsar-like properties of the signal. This significantly increases the sensitivity to weak pulsars and pulsars with periods close to interference signals. By applying this and other techniques for ranking candidates from a previous processing of the Parkes Multi-beam Pulsar Survey, 28 previously unknown pulsars have been discovered. These include an eccentric binary system and a young pulsar which is spatially coincident with a known supernova remnant.
The Pulsar backend of the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) has monitored hundreds of known pulsars in the northern sky since Fall 2018, providing a rich data set for the study of temporal variations in pulsar emission. Using a matched filtering technique, we report, for the first time, nulling behaviour in five pulsars as well as mode switching in nine pulsars. Only one of the pulsars is observed to show both nulling and moding signals. These new nulling and mode switching pulsars appear to come from a population with relatively long spin periods, in agreement with previo…
帕克斯多波束脉冲星巡天的再处理发现了五颗以前未知的脉冲星和几颗尚未确认的候选者。PSR J 0922 -52的周期为9.68 ms,DM为122.4 pc cm^-3。PSR J1147-66的周期为3.72 ms,DM为133.8 pc cm^-3。PSR J1227-6208的周期为34.53 ms,DM为362.6 pc cm^-3,处于一个6.7天的双星轨道上,桑顿等人在进行中的高分辨率帕克斯巡天中独立探测到了它,爱因斯坦@Home志愿者也在独立处理中探测到了它。PSR J1546-59的周期为7.80 ms,DM为168.3 pc cm^-3。PSR J1725-3853是一颗孤立的4.79 ms脉冲星,DM为158.2 pc cm^-3。这些候选人可能在早期的处理工作中被遗漏,因为他们的DM很高,周期很短,而且需要浏览的候选人数量很大。这些发现表明,在多波束勘测数据中,还有待发现更多的类星体。
We present the discovery of 37 pulsars from $\sim$ 20 years old archival data of the Parkes Multibeam Pulsar Survey using a new FFT-based search pipeline optimised for discovering narrow-duty cycle pulsars. When developing our pulsar search pipeline, we noticed that the signal-to-noise ratios of folded and optimised pulsars often exceeded that achieved in the spectral domain by a factor of two or greater, in particular for narrow duty cycle ones. Based on simulations, we verified that this is a feature of search codes that sum harmonics incoherently and found that many promising pulsar candida…
Discovery of Millisecond Pulsars in the Globular Cluster Omega Centauri
半人马座球状星团是银河系中质量最大、亮度最高的星团。$γ$射线源FL8 Y J1326.7 $-$ 4729与星团的核心重合,这导致人们猜测星团核心可能存在迄今未知的射电暴或湮灭性暗物质。在这里,我们报告发现五毫秒半人马座欧米茄以下的观测与帕克斯射电望远镜。其中四颗星的自转周期分别为4.1、4.2、4.6和6.8毫秒,第五颗星的自转周期为4.8毫秒,属于食双星系统,轨道周期为2.1小时。澳大利亚望远镜紧凑阵列拍摄的星团中心的深射电连续图像显示了一小部分紧凑的射电源,这使得其他的射电星可能正在等待发现。我们认为,毫秒级双星极有可能是$γ$射线的发射源。这些恒星的长期定时为探索星团的动力学和星际介质提供了机会。
The Green Bank North Celestial Cap (GBNCC) survey is a 350-MHz all-sky survey for pulsars and fast radio transients using the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope. To date, the survey has discovered over 190 pulsars, including 33 millisecond pulsars (MSPs) and 24 rotating radio transients(RRATs). Several exotic pulsars have been discovered in the survey, including PSR J1759+5036, a binary pulsar with a 176-ms spin period in an orbit with a period of 2.04 days, an eccentricity of 0.3,and a projected semi-major axis of 6.8 light seconds. Using seven years of timing data, we are able to measure on…
Why Gravitational Wave Science Needs Pulsar Timing Arrays And Why Pulsar Timing Arrays Need Both Arecibo and the GBT: A Response to the NSF-AST Portfolio Review from the NANOGrav Collaboration
Globular clusters contain a unique pulsar population, with many exotic systems that can form only in their dense stellar environments. The leap in sensitivity of the upgraded Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (uGMRT) in India, especially at low radio frequencies ($<$ 1 GHz) has motivated a new search for radio pulsars in a group of eight Southern globular clusters. We discovered PSR J1835$-$3259B, a 1.83-ms pulsar in NGC 6652; this is in a near-circular wide orbit of 28.7 hr with a low-mass ($ \sim 0.2 \, M_{\rm \odot}$) companion, likely a Helium white dwarf. We derived a 10-year timing solutio…