Parkes observations for project P630 semester 2010OCTS_16

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.本研究拟开展迄今为止规模最宏大、覆盖最全面的全天区脉冲星与暂现源巡天项目。本项目将依托20cm多波束系统与新型数字滤波器组阵列，获取拍字节量级的全天区数字化观测数据集，可用于后续数据挖掘，并开展相对论双星脉冲星、毫秒脉冲星（millisecond pulsar）、旋转射电暂现源（Rotating Radio Transients，简称RRATs）以及河外射电暴的搜寻工作。本次巡天将发现数百颗全新的毫秒脉冲星与普通脉冲星，助力确定脉冲星周期下限、验证相对论引力理论、探测暂现源，并为引力波探测提供可用脉冲星。