The Green Bank Telescope 350 MHz Drift-scan survey. I. Survey Observations and the Discovery of 13 Pulsars
Abstract
Over the summer of 2007, we obtained 1191 hr of "drift-scan" pulsar search observations with the Green Bank Telescope at a radio frequency of 350 MHz. Here we describe the survey setup, search procedure, and the discovery and follow-up timing of 13 pulsars. Among the new discoveries, one (PSR J1623-0841) was discovered only through its single pulses, two (PSRs J1327-0755 and J1737-0814) are millisecond pulsars, and another (PSR J2222-0137) is a mildly recycled pulsar. PSR J1327-0755 is a 2.7 ms pulsar at a dispersion measure (DM) of 27.9 pc cm-3 in an 8.7 day orbit with a minimum companion mass of 0.22 M ⊙. PSR J1737-0814 is a 4.2 ms pulsar at a DM of 55.3 pc cm-3 in a 79.3 day orbit with a minimum companion mass of 0.06 M ⊙. PSR J2222-0137 is a 32.8 ms pulsar at a very low DM of 3.27 pc cm-3 in a 2.4 day orbit with a minimum companion mass of 1.11 M ⊙. It is most likely a white-dwarf-neutron-star system or an unusual low-eccentricity double neutron star system. Ten other pulsars discovered in this survey are reported in the companion paper Lynch et al.
- Publication:
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The Astrophysical Journal
- Pub Date:
- February 2013
- DOI:
- 10.1088/0004-637X/763/2/80
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1209.4293
- Bibcode:
- 2013ApJ...763...80B
- Keywords:
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- pulsars: general;
- pulsars: individual: PSR J1327–0755 PSR J1623–0841 PSR J1737–0814 PSR J1941–0121 PSR J2222–0137;
- stars: neutron;
- Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena;
- Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies
- E-Print:
- Companion paper to "The Green Bank Telescope 350 MHz Drift-scan Survey II: Data Analysis and the Timing of 10 New Pulsars, Including a Relativistic Binary", Submitted to ApJ, 29 pages, 7 figures, 8 tables