Parkes observations for project P630 semester 2011APRS_10

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.

我们提出开展迄今为止最具雄心、覆盖最为全面的脉冲星与暂现源全天巡天计划。本巡天项目将借助20厘米多波束系统（20cm multibeam）与新型数字滤波器组阵列（digital filterbank array），生成覆盖全天的拍字节（petabyte）级数字存档，可供未来开展数据挖掘，并用于搜寻相对论双星脉冲星、毫秒脉冲星、旋转射电暂现源（RRATs）以及河外射电暴。该巡天计划有望发现数百个全新的毫秒脉冲星与普通脉冲星，助力确定脉冲星周期的下限、检验相对论引力理论、探测暂现源，并为引力波探测提供可用脉冲星。