Parkes observations for project P892 semester 2018APRS_BPSR_32

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，旨在搜寻脉冲星与快速射电暴（FRBs）。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。处理实时流入的数据对于平方公里阵列望远镜一期（SKA Phase I）时代至关重要，因此本研究可直接适配下一代望远镜的高数据率场景。我们发现的脉冲星通常为近邻闪烁源、间歇性源或处于特殊双星系统中的天体。我们发现FRB的延迟仅约1秒（而非数月至数年），并通过专用VOEvent格式与《天文学家电报》向全球后续观测社区发布快速警报。此举旨在实现对已发现FRB的精确定位，这是识别其宿主星系的关键，进而有望解开FRB起源之谜，并将其作为工具应用于精密宇宙学测量。