Parkes observations for project P630 semester 2013APRS

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规模最大、覆盖最全面的全天脉冲星与暂现源巡天观测项目。本项目将依托20cm多波束系统与新型数字滤波器组阵列，生成拍字节量级的全天数字化观测档案，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（Rotating Radio Transients，RRATs）以及河外射电暴。本次巡天将发现数百颗新的毫秒脉冲星与常规脉冲星，有助于确定脉冲星周期的下限，验证相对论引力理论，探测暂现源，并为引力波探测提供可用脉冲星标的。