Status of a Parkes Survey of the Large Magellanic Cloud for Millisecond Pulsars and Transients
Abstract
To date, no millisecond radio pulsars have been discovered outside of our Galaxy. We are undertaking the first survey of the Large Magellanic Cloud that is sensitive to millisecond pulsars. For this search we are using the 1.4 GHz multibeam receiver on the Parkes 64-m telescope. We also hope to discover new source populations and probe the high-end of the pulsar luminosity function. We are searching our data over a wide range of dispersion measures for both single-pulse events and for accelerated pulsars. With about 40% of the survey completed, we have discovered three new long-period pulsars (all of which have been published) but have not yet confirmed any new millisecond pulsars.
- Publication:
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American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts #231
- Pub Date:
- January 2018
- Bibcode:
- 2018AAS...23133305C