Parkes observations for project P858 semester 2015APRS_BPSR_64

SUPERB is a large-scale survey for pulsars and extragalactic radio bursts. It will uses optimised GPU codes to search for pulsars and fast radio bursts (FRBs), 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. The pulsars discovered will enable studies of the interstellar medium, allow us to more accurately constrain the MSP luminosity function (which informs estimates of the SKA yield of MSPs), tests of theories of gravity and several will contribute to the precision timing projects of the PPTA. The FRBs discovered will have much more associated information than all previous detections. Firstly the discovery lag will be ~1 second, rather than months/years. The Parkes observations will be shadowed by the Molonglo telescope to allow, for the first time, localisation of FRBs, and a host of optical and high-energy telescopes will then be triggered as appropriate. This is key for identifying FRB host galaxies, so as to solve the mystery of their progenitors. The survey will discover ~20 MSPs, ~100 slower pulsars and ~10 FRBs.

SUPERB是一项针对脉冲星和河外射电暴的大规模巡天项目。该项目将采用优化的GPU代码搜索脉冲星和快速射电暴（FRBs），实现实时发现。在数据产生时进行处理对于平方公里阵列望远镜（SKA）第一阶段时代至关重要，因此这项工作可直接应用于下一代望远镜的高数据率场景。发现的脉冲星将助力星际介质研究，使我们能更精确地约束毫秒脉冲星（MSP）光度函数（该函数可为SKA的MSP探测量估算提供依据），还可用于引力理论检验，其中部分脉冲星将为脉冲星计时阵列（PPTA）的精密计时项目贡献力量。发现的快速射电暴（FRBs）将比以往所有探测结果包含更多关联信息。首先，发现延迟将缩短至约1秒，而非数月或数年。帕克斯望远镜（Parkes）的观测将由莫隆戈望远镜（Molonglo）同步跟踪，首次实现快速射电暴（FRBs）的定位；随后，大量光学及高能望远镜将根据情况被触发观测。这对于确定快速射电暴（FRB）的宿主星系至关重要，从而有望解开其起源之谜。该巡天项目预计将发现约20颗毫秒脉冲星（MSP）、约100颗慢速脉冲星及约10个快速射电暴（FRB）。