Pilot pulsar surveys with LOFAR

Authors
Publication date 20-03-2013
Journal Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union
Event IAU Symposium S291: Neutron Stars and Pulsars: Challenges and Opportunities after 80 years
Volume | Issue number 8 | S291
Pages (from-to) 229-232
Organisations
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Anton Pannekoek Institute for Astronomy (API)
Abstract We are performing two complementary pilot pulsar surveys as part of LOFAR commissioning. The LOFAR Pilot Pulsar Survey (LPPS) is a shallow all-sky survey using an incoherent combination of LOFAR stations. The LOFAR Tied-Array Survey (LOTAS) is a deeper pilot survey using 19 simultaneous tied-array beams. These will inform a forthcoming deep survey of the entire northern hemisphere, which is expected to discover hundreds of pulsars. Here we present early results from LPPS and LOTAS, among which are two independent pulsar discoveries.
Document type Article
Note On behalf of the LOFAR Pulsar Working Group Proceedings title: Neutron stars and pulsars: challenges and opportunities after 80 years: proceedings of the 291st Symposium of the International Astronomical Union, held in Beijing, China, 20-24 August 2012 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Place of publication: Cambridge ISBN: 9781107033801 Editors: J. van Leeuwen
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1017/S1743921312023721
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