Parkes observations for project P574 semester 2013OCTS

We request time to observe 170 pulsars on a regular basis in order to provide accurate ephemerides necessary for the detection of gamma-ray pulsars with the Fermi and AGILE satellites. 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, to characterise their high energy spectra and phase resolved spectroscopy of the brightest pulsars. 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 43 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 five students have active projects using the radio datasets.

我们申请观测时长以定期观测170颗脉冲星，以此获取精准的星历表——这是利用费米（Fermi）与阿吉尔（AGILE）卫星探测γ射线脉冲星的必要前提。本项目的核心科学目标包括：扩充已知γ射线脉冲星的数量（涵盖射电亮脉冲星与射电静默脉冲星两类）、获取精准的脉冲轮廓、刻画其高能能谱特征，以及对最明亮的脉冲星开展相分辨光谱分析。在射电波段的观测中，我们还将借此发现脉冲星自转突跳（glitch）、刻画计时噪声特征、研究色散与旋转量的变化特性，并加深对单脉冲现象学的认知。截至目前，依托本合作项目与P574数据集产出的研究成果已发表43篇论文，我们均为这些论文的（共同）作者。该数据集助力了波尔多费米小组的Lucas Guillemot、Damien Parent以及斯坦福大学的Kyle Watters完成其博士学位论文。目前有五名学生正依托该射电数据集开展在研项目。