Open AccessThe Parkes High‐Latitude pulsar survey
Author(s) -
Burgay M.,
Joshi B. C.,
D'Amico N.,
Possenti A.,
Lyne A. G.,
Manchester R. N.,
McLaughlin M. A.,
Kramer M.,
Camilo F.,
Freire P. C. C.
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
monthly notices of the royal astronomical society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.058
H-Index - 383
eISSN - 1365-2966
pISSN - 0035-8711
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2006.10100.x
Subject(s) - physics , pulsar , millisecond pulsar , sky , radio telescope , astrophysics , astronomy , pulsar planet , latitude , binary pulsar , telescope
The Parkes High‐Latitude pulsar survey covers a region of the sky enclosed by Galactic longitudes 220° < l < 260° and Galactic latitudes | b | < 60°. The observations have been performed using the 20‐cm multibeam receiver on the Parkes 64‐m radio telescope. A total of 6456 pointings of 265 s each have been collected. The system adopted provided a sensitivity limit, for long‐period pulsars with 5 per cent duty cycles, of ∼0.5 mJy. Data analysis resulted in the detection of 42 pulsars of which 18 were new discoveries. Four of these belong to the class of the millisecond – or recycled – pulsars; three of these four are in binary systems. The double pulsar system J0737−3039 is among those and has been presented elsewhere. Here, we discuss the other discoveries and provide timing parameters for the objects for which we have a phase‐connected solution.