Parkes observations for project P892 semester 2018APRS_BPSR_35

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.

SUPERBx项目聚焦于最高银纬区域，旨在搜寻脉冲星（pulsar）与快速射电暴（FRB）。我们采用优化的GPU代码与超级计算技术开展搜寻工作，实现实时发现。对于平方公里阵列射电望远镜（SKA）第一阶段而言，数据的实时处理至关重要，因此本研究可直接适配下一代望远镜的高数据率需求。我们发现的脉冲星通常为邻近的闪烁源、间歇性源以及处于特殊双星系统中的源。我们发现快速射电暴的延迟仅约1秒（而非数月或数年），并通过专用的虚拟天文台事件（VOEvent）格式与《天文学家电报》（Astronomer's Telegrams）向全球后续观测社区发送快速警报。此举旨在实现已发现快速射电暴的定位，这对于确定其宿主星系至关重要——进而解开其起源之谜，并将其作为精密宇宙学测量工具加以利用。