Parkes observations for project P574 semester 2014APRS01

We request time to observe 180 pulsars on a regular basis in order to provide the accurate ephemerides necessary for the detection and characterisation of gamma-ray pulsars with the Fermi satellite. 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, and to characterise their high energy (phase-resolved) spectra. 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 45 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 and Kyle Watters from Stanford. Currently four students have active projects using the radio datasets.

我们申请了观测时长以定期观测180颗脉冲星（pulsar），从而获取精确的计时星历，为利用费米卫星（Fermi satellite）探测与表征γ射线脉冲星（gamma-ray pulsar）提供必要支撑。本项目的主要科学目标为：扩充已知γ射线脉冲星的数量（涵盖射电亮型（radio loud）与射电宁静型（radio quiet）两类）、获取精确的脉冲轮廓（pulse profile），并对其（相位分辨（phase-resolved））高能光谱开展特性表征。在射电波段的观测还将助力我们发现脉冲星自转突变（glitch）、表征计时噪声（timing noise）、研究色散（dispersion）与旋转量（rotation measure）的变化特性，并加深我们对单脉冲现象学（single pulse phenomenology）的认知。截至目前，我们作为（共同）作者，参与了本合作项目与P574数据衍生出的45篇学术论文的撰写。该数据还支撑了波尔多费米团队（Bordeaux Fermi group）的Lucas Guillemot、Damien Parent以及斯坦福大学（Stanford）的Kyle Watters完成其博士学位论文。当前已有4名学生基于该射电数据集（radio dataset）开展在研项目。