Parkes observations for project P630 semester 2010OCTS_33

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.本研究提出开展迄今为止规模最为宏大、覆盖最为全面的针对脉冲星（pulsars）与暂现源（transient sources）的全天巡天（all-sky survey）项目。本项目将依托20厘米多波束系统（20cm multibeam）与新型数字滤波器组阵列（digital filterbank array），获取全天域的拍字节（petabyte）级数字化观测档案，该档案可供后续数据挖掘，并用于搜寻相对论双星脉冲星、毫秒脉冲星（millisecond pulsars）、旋转射电暂现源（Rotating Radio Transients，RRATs）以及河外射电暴。本次巡天将发现数百颗全新的毫秒脉冲星与普通脉冲星，有助于确定脉冲星周期的下限、验证相对论引力理论、搜寻暂现源，并为引力波探测提供可用脉冲星。