Parkes observations for project P1050 semester 2022OCTS_16

This is a request for the observation time for the timing campaign of new pulsars discovered in the reprocessing of the low-latitude Galactic plane section of the HTRU-S survey (HTRU-S LowLat) and the Parkes Multibeam Pulsar Survey (PMPS). We have completed 90 % of the HTRU-S LowLat survey and completed zero acceleration PMPS search with GPU-based coherent acceleration search, template bank, and fast folding algorithm pipelines and now have discovered 115 previously unknown pulsars among which 20 were found in the PMPS. Interesting science can usually only be derived from a new pulsar after confirmation, and a follow-up timing campaign is carried out. At least one year of initial timing is the minimum timespan required to fully characterise any newly-discovered pulsars, essential for deriving pulsar parameters such as the characteristic age, magnetic field strength, and spin-down rate, as well as for detecting any unexpected behaviour of the pulsar which might result from emission instabilities. This project is necessary for the timing of several interesting pulsars, including binary pulsars, high DM pulsars, scattered profile pulsars, and bright ones that show emissions in larger bandwidths in the UWL band. The follow-up timing in OCTS22 will assist in completing many exciting large-term science goals. In addition, the data obtained from this timing project will allow us to obtain many auxiliary scientific results which would help us understand the nature of the interstellar medium, spectral properties as well as pulsar emission mechanism.

本申请旨在为HTRU-S巡天（HTRU-S LowLat）银道面低纬度区域与帕克斯多波束脉冲星巡天（Parkes Multibeam Pulsar Survey, PMPS）的重新处理数据中发现的新脉冲星，申请对应计时观测计划所需的观测时长。我们已完成HTRU-S LowLat巡天90%的数据处理工作，并基于GPU加速的相干加速搜索、模板库及快速折叠算法流程，完成了PMPS巡天的零加速脉冲星搜索任务，目前已发现115颗此前未被记录的脉冲星，其中20颗来自PMPS巡天。新发现的脉冲星通常需经确认并开展后续计时观测后，才能产出具有科学价值的研究成果。对新脉冲星开展至少一年的初始计时观测，是完整表征其物理特性的最低时长要求，同时也是获取脉冲星特征年龄、磁场强度及自转减速率等关键参数，以及探测由辐射不稳定性引发的脉冲星异常行为的必要前提。本项目需对多类极具科学意义的脉冲星开展计时观测，包括双星脉冲星、高色散量（Dispersion Measure, DM）脉冲星、轮廓散射展宽脉冲星，以及在UWL波段拥有更宽辐射带宽的亮脉冲星。本次OCTS22周期内的后续计时观测，将助力我们达成多项极具科学价值的长期观测目标。此外，本计时项目获取的观测数据还将衍生出多项辅助科学成果，帮助我们深入理解星际介质的物理特性、脉冲星的光谱属性及其辐射机制。