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Parkes observations for project P944 semester 2017APRS_BPSR_04

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Title Parkes observations for project P944 semester 2017APRS_BPSR_04
 
Creator Naomi van Jaarsveld
 
Subject Astronomical and Space Sciences not elsewhere classified
 
Description We propose here to search for new young pulsars in the SMC. Our strategy is to target nine new, optically verified, SNR remnants from the XMM Newton survey of the SMC. Detecting a single pulsar associated with a SNR in the SMC will provide important insights about the nature of the pulsar population in the SMC and the progenitor stars that formed it. In addition finding a young pulsar in a binary with a massive star will contribute to our understanding of the evolution of high mass X-ray binaries (HMXBs) in different metallicity environments and different galaxies, as well as the formation rates of double neutron star binaries. Knowledge of the population of these sources will be crucial in the era of gravitational wave detections with Advanced Ligo and Virgo. Therefore it is essential that we make the deepest, most sensitive observations possible to either detect the young radio pulsars or place constraints on any radio emission associated with the candidate remnants. To achieve this we propose to take a nine hour integration per target, resulting in a limiting flux density of 0.016 mJy - ultimately improving the limiting flux density of previous SMC surveys by a factor of two.
 
Publisher CSIRO
 
Contributor Miroslav Filipovic
Michael Kramer
Benjamin Stappers
Tana Joseph
Vanessa McBride
David Buckley
 
Date 2017-12-18
 
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Identifier csiro:26621
 
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