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Title:
The GBT350 Survey of the Northern Galactic Plane for Radio Pulsars and Transients
Authors:
Hessels, J. W. T.; Ransom, S. M.; Kaspi, V. M.; Roberts, M. S. E.; Champion, D. J.; Stappers, B. W.
Affiliation:
AA(Astronomical Institute ``Anton Pannekoek'', University of Amsterdam, Kruislaan 403, 1098 SJ Amsterdam, The Netherlands), AB(National Radio Astronomy Observatory, 520 Edgemont Road, Charlottesville, VA 22903, U.S.A.), AC(Department of Physics, McGill University, Montreal, QC H3A 2T8, Canada), AD(Eureka Scientific, Inc., Oakland, CA 94602-3017, U.S.A.), AE(Department of Physics, McGill University, Montreal, QC H3A 2T8, Canada), AF(Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics, University of Manchester, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK)
Publication:
40 YEARS OF PULSARS: Millisecond Pulsars, Magnetars and More. AIP Conference Proceedings, Volume 983, pp. 613-615 (2008). (AIPC Homepage)
Publication Date:
02/2008
Origin:
AIP
PACS Keywords:
Pulsars, Radio telescopes and instrumentation; heterodyne receivers, Neutron stars, Accretion and accretion disks
DOI:
10.1063/1.2900310
Bibliographic Code:
2008AIPC..983..613H

Abstract

Using the Green Bank Telescope (GBT) and Pulsar Spigot at 350 MHz, we have surveyed the Northern Galactic Plane for pulsars and radio transients. This survey covers roughly 1000 square degrees of sky within 75°<l<165° and |b|<5.5°, a region of the Galactic Plane inaccessible to both the Parkes and Arecibo multibeam surveys. The large gain of the GBT along with the high time and frequency resolution provided by the Spigot make this survey more sensitive by factors of about 4 to slow pulsars and more than 10 to millisecond pulsars (MSPs), compared with previous surveys of this area. In a preliminary, reduced-resolution search of all the survey data, we have discovered 33 new pulsars, almost doubling the number of known pulsars in this part of the Galaxy. While most of these sources were discovered by normal periodicity searches, 5 of these sources were first identified through single, dispersed bursts. We discuss the interesting properties of some of these new sources. Data processing using the data's full-resolution is ongoing, with the goal of uncovering MSPs missed by our first, coarse round of processing.
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