Parkes observations for project P630 semester 2010APRS_09

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、覆盖最全面的全天域脉冲星与暂现源巡天项目。本项目将采用20厘米多波束系统（20cm multibeam）与新型数字滤波器组阵列（digital filterbank array），生成一份拍字节（petabyte）量级的全天数字化观测档案，可供未来开展数据挖掘，并用于搜寻相对论性双星脉冲星、毫秒脉冲星（millisecond pulsars）、旋转射电暂现源（RRATs）以及河外射电暴（extragalactic radio bursts）。本次巡天将有望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样本。