ALFA Arecibo Pulsar Surveys

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Dec 2004

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2004aas...205.7607f&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society Meeting 205, #76.07; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 36, p.1473

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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We report on the start of a long-term pulsar survey program at the Arecibo Observatory. This program uses the Arecibo L-band Feed Array (ALFA, a seven-beam system operating at 1.4 GHz with 0.3 GHz bandwidth, and fast-dump digital spectrometers) to achieve a sensitivity to faint pulsars that is unprecedented for any blind surveys of the Galactic disk. Over the next 5 years; the Arecibo ALFA surveys will discover hundreds of new pulsars along the Galactic plane, and significantly increase the number of known millisecond pulsars. Preliminary shallow observations of a small part of the Galactic plane has already yielded the detection of 29 known pulsars, the discovery of ten new pulsars through a standard periodicity search, and the discovery of an eleventh object through detection of isolated dispersed pulses.

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