Parkes observations for project P892 semester 2018APRS_BPSR_50

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项目针对最高银纬区域开展脉冲星与快速射电暴（FRBs）的搜寻工作。我们采用优化的GPU代码与超级计算技术进行搜索，实现实时发现。对于平方公里阵列射电望远镜（SKA）第一阶段时代而言，实时处理传入数据至关重要，因此这项工作可直接适用于下一代望远镜的高数据率场景。我们发现的脉冲星通常为近邻闪烁源、间歇性源以及处于特殊双星系统中的源。我们发现FRB的滞后时间约为1秒（而非数月或数年），并通过专用的VOEvent格式与《天文学家电报》向全球后续观测社群发送快速警报。此举旨在实现已发现FRB的定位，这对于确定FRB的宿主星系至关重要——进而解开其起源天体的谜团，并利用它们作为工具开展精密宇宙学测量。