Parkes observations for project P574 semester 2014APRS02

We request time to observe 180 pulsars on a regular basis in order to provide the accurate ephemerides necessary for the detection and characterisation of gamma-ray pulsars with the Fermi satellite. The main science goals are to increase the number of known gamma-ray pulsars (both radio loud and radio quiet), to determine accurate pulse profiles, and to characterise their high energy (phase-resolved) spectra. In the radio, the observations will also allow us to find glitches, characterise timing noise, investigate dispersion and rotation measure variability, and enhance our knowledge of single pulse phenomenology. To date, we are (co-)authors on 45 papers arising from the collaboration and P574 data. The data have contributed to the PhD theses of Lucas Guillemot and Damien Parent from the Bordeaux Fermi group and Kyle Watters from Stanford. Currently four students have active projects using the radio datasets.

我们申请定期观测180颗脉冲星的时间，旨在为费米卫星（Fermi satellite）探测和表征伽马射线脉冲星提供所需的精确星历表（ephemerides）。主要科学目标包括增加已知伽马射线脉冲星（含射电亮和射电静两类）的数量、测定精确的脉冲轮廓，以及表征其高能（相位分辨）谱。在射电波段，这些观测还将帮助我们发现自转突变（glitches）、表征计时噪声（timing noise）、研究色散（dispersion）与旋转量度变化（rotation measure variability），并深化对单脉冲现象学（single pulse phenomenology）的认知。截至目前，我们作为（共同）作者参与了45篇基于该合作项目及P574数据的论文。这些数据已为波尔多费米小组的Lucas Guillemot、Damien Parent以及斯坦福大学的Kyle Watters的博士论文提供了支持。目前有四名学生正利用射电数据集开展在研项目。