Parkes observations for project P574 semester 2011APRS

We request time to observe 170 pulsars on a regular basis in order to provide accurate ephemerides necessary for the detection of gamma-ray pulsars with the Fermi and AGILE satellites. 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, to characterise their high energy spectra and phase resolved spectroscopy of the brightest pulsars. 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 27 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 (submitted mid 2009) and Kyle Watters from Stanford.

本研究申请对170颗脉冲星开展常规观测，以获取精准的历表数据，为利用费米（Fermi）卫星与阿吉尔（AGILE）卫星探测伽马射线脉冲星提供必要支撑。本项目的核心科学目标包括：扩充已知伽马射线脉冲星的样本规模（涵盖射电活跃与射电静默两类源）；获取高精度的脉冲轮廓；刻画其高能辐射能谱，并针对最亮的脉冲星开展相分辨光谱分析。在射电波段的观测还将助力我们发现脉冲星自转突变现象，刻画其计时噪声特征，研究色散量与旋转量的变化特性，并深化对单脉冲现象学的认知。截至目前，本合作团队及P574项目数据已支撑发表（含共同署名）论文27篇。相关数据还助力了波尔多费米研究组的Lucas Guillemot、Damien Parent（2009年中期提交学位论文）以及斯坦福大学的Kyle Watters完成其博士学位论文。