Parkes observations for project P630 semester 2009APRS_25

We propose to carry out the most ambitious and comprehensive all-sky survey for pulsars and transient sources to date. Using the 20cm multibeam and a new digital filterbank array this survey will create a petabyte digital record of the sky that can be data mined in the future and used to search for relativistic binary and millisecond pulsars, RRATs, and extragalactic radio bursts. The survey should discover 100s of new millisecond and normal pulsars and help define the lower limit to pulsar periods, test theories of relativistic gravity, find transients and provide pulsars for gravitational wave detection. With all the hardware in place, and our first new pulsar discovery made, we request a substantial time allocation this semester.

我们提议开展迄今为止最具雄心且最全面的脉冲星（pulsar）与暂现源全天空巡天。该巡天将利用20厘米多波束设备及新型数字滤波器组阵列，生成1拍字节（petabyte）的天空数字记录，这些数据未来可用于挖掘，以搜寻相对论性双星脉冲星、毫秒脉冲星、RRATs及河外射电暴。该巡天预计将发现数百颗新型毫秒脉冲星与普通脉冲星，助力确定脉冲星周期的下限、检验相对论性引力理论、搜寻暂现源，并为引力波探测提供脉冲星样本。目前所有硬件已部署到位，且我们已发现首颗新型脉冲星，因此我们请求本学期分配充足的观测时间。