A Search for Sub-Millisecond Pulsars

Details A Search for Sub-Millisecond Pulsars A Search for Sub-Millisecond Pulsars

2001-06-20

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0106353v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

8 pages, 3 figures, to appear in ApJ

Scientific paper

10.1086/322772

We have conducted a search of 19 southern Galactic globular clusters for sub-millisecond pulsars at 660 MHz with the Parkes 64-m radio telescope. To minimize dispersion smearing we used the CPSR baseband recorder, which samples the 20 MHz observing band at the Nyquist rate. By possessing a complete description of the signal we could synthesize an optimal filterbank in software, and in the case of globular clusters of known dispersion measure, much of the dispersion could be removed using coherent techniques. This allowed for very high time resolution (25.6 us in most cases), making our searches in general sensitive to sub-millisecond pulsars with flux densities greater than about 3 mJy at 50 cm. No new pulsars were discovered, placing important constraints on the proportion of pulsars with very short spin periods in these clusters.

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