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Parkes observations for project P892 semester 2018APRS_BPSR_11

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Title Parkes observations for project P892 semester 2018APRS_BPSR_11
 
Creator Evan Keane
 
Subject Astronomical and Space Sciences not elsewhere classified
 
Description SUPERBx looks at the highest Galactic latitudes in a search for pulsars and fast radio bursts (FRBs). We use optimised GPU codes and supercomputing to search for these, making discoveries in real time. Handling our data as it comes in is essential for the SKA Phase I era so this work applies directly to the high-data rates of next generation telescopes. Our pulsar discoveries are typically nearby scintillating sources, intermittent sources and those in interesting binary systems. Our FRB discoveries have discovery lags of ~1 second, rather than months/years and these feed rapid alerts to the world-wide follow-up community via a dedicated VOEvent format an Astronomer's Telegrams. The goal of this is to allow localisation of the discovered FRBs. This is key for identifying FRB host galaxies, so as to solve the mystery of their progenitors and to exploit their many uses as tools for precision cosmology measurements.
 
Publisher CSIRO
 
Contributor Andrea Possenti
James Green
Simon Johnston
Michael Kramer
Marta Burgay
Matthew Bailes
Ramesh Bhat
Ralph Eatough
Willem van Straten
Benjamin Stappers
Lina Levin
Andrew Jameson
Cherry Ng
Caterina Tiburzi
Emily Petroff
Ewan Barr
Chris Flynn
Fabian Jankowski
Manisha Caleb
Vincent Morello
Shivani Bhandari
Vivek Venkatraman Krishnan
Renee Spiewak
Wael Farah
 
Date 2018-05-14
 
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Identifier csiro:31914
 
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