The survey for pulsars and extragalactic radio bursts - I. Survey description and overview

E. F. Keane; E. D. Barr; A. Jameson; V. Morello; M. Caleb; S. Bhandari; E. Petroff; A. Possenti; M. Burgay; C. Tiburzi; M. Bailes; N. D.R. Bhat; S. Burke-Spolaor; R. P. Eatough; C. Flynn; F. Jankowski; S. Johnston; M. Kramer; L. Levin; C. Ng; W. van Straten; V. Venkatraman Krishnan

doi:10.1093/mnras/stx2126

The survey for pulsars and extragalactic radio bursts - I. Survey description and overview

E. F. Keane
, E. D. Barr
, A. Jameson
, V. Morello
, M. Caleb
, S. Bhandari
, E. Petroff
, A. Possenti
, M. Burgay
, C. Tiburzi
, M. Bailes
, N. D.R. Bhat
, S. Burke-Spolaor
, R. P. Eatough
, C. Flynn
, F. Jankowski
, S. Johnston
, M. Kramer
, L. Levin
, C. Ng

W. van Straten, V. Venkatraman Krishnan

University of Manchester
Swinburne University of Technology
ARC Centre of Excellence for All-Sky Astrophysics (CAASTRO)
Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie
Australian National University
Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy
Commonwealth Scientific Industrial and Research Organization
Osservatorio Astronomico di Cagliari
Bielefeld University
Curtin University
National Radio Astronomy Observatory Socorro
University of British Columbia

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We describe the Survey for Pulsars and Extragalactic Radio Bursts (SUPERB), an ongoing pulsar and fast transient survey using the Parkes radio telescope. SUPERB involves real-time acceleration searches for pulsars and single-pulse searches for pulsars and fast radio bursts. We report on the observational set-up, data analysis, multiwavelength/messenger connections, survey sensitivities to pulsars and fast radio bursts and the impact of radio frequency interference. We further report on the first 10 pulsars discovered in the project. Among these is PSR J1306-40, a millisecond pulsar in a binary system where it appears to be eclipsed for a large fraction of the orbit. PSR J1421-4407 is another binary millisecond pulsar; its orbital period is 30.7 d. This orbital period is in a range where only highly eccentric binaries are known, and expected by theory; despite this its orbit has an eccentricity of 10^-5.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	116-135
Number of pages	20
Journal	Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Volume	473
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx2126
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2018
Externally published	Yes

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Methods: data analysis
Methods: observational
Surveys

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Keane, E. F., Barr, E. D., Jameson, A., Morello, V., Caleb, M., Bhandari, S., Petroff, E., Possenti, A., Burgay, M., Tiburzi, C., Bailes, M., Bhat, N. D. R., Burke-Spolaor, S., Eatough, R. P., Flynn, C., Jankowski, F., Johnston, S., Kramer, M., Levin, L., ... Venkatraman Krishnan, V. (2018). The survey for pulsars and extragalactic radio bursts - I. Survey description and overview. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 473(1), 116-135. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx2126

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