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Parkes observations for project P743 semester 2017APRS_BPSR_07

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Title Parkes observations for project P743 semester 2017APRS_BPSR_07
 
Creator Duncan Ross Lorimer
 
Subject Astronomical and Space Sciences not elsewhere classified
 
Description This proposal aims to extend our survey observations of the Magellanic Clouds already reported by (Ridley et al.~2013) which are primarily motivated by the promise of probing their millisecond pulsar population. From observations of the Large Magellanic Cloud so far, which cover about 20\% of its spatial extent, we have discovered and obtained preliminary timing solutions for 8 normal pulsars. In this coming semester, we wish to complete the timing of these pulsars, and bring the survey coverage to 50\%. Based on our results so far, we
anticipate the discovery of around 10 new normal pulsars and possibly a few millisecond pulsars. For the first time, we would be able to definitively probe the relative populations of normal and millisecond pulsars in an external galaxy which has a significantly different star formation history to the Milky Way. These observations pave the way for future surveys of the Magellanic Clouds with MeerKAT.
 
Publisher CSIRO
 
Contributor Fronefield Crawford
Joshua Ridley
 
Date 2017-10-22
 
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Identifier csiro:26172
 
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