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A Search for Sub-millisecond Pulsations in Unidentified FIRST and NVSS Radio Sources

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Fronefield Crawford
Affiliation:
Center for Space Research, MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
Victoria M. Kaspi
Affiliation:
Center for Space Research, MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
Jon F. Bell
Affiliation:
ATNF, CSIRO, P.O. Box 76, Epping, NSW, Australia

Abstract

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We have searched 92 unidentified sources from the FIRST and NVSS radio catalogs for pulsations at 610 MHz. The selected sources are bright, have no identifications, are unresolved and have significant linear polarization. Our search was sensitive to sub-millisecond pulsations from pulsars with a large range of dispersion measures. We have detected no radio pulsations from these sources and conclude that they are unlikely to be a population of previously undetected pulsars.

Type
Part 1. Searching for Pulsars
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2000

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