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A VLA Survey for Radio Pulsars in the Galactic Center

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

T. Joseph W. Lazio
Affiliation:
Naval Research Laboratory, Code 7213, Washington, DC 20375-5351, USA
James M. Cordes
Affiliation:
Department of Astronomy, Cornell University and National Astronomy & Ionosphere Center, Ithaca, NY 14853-6801, USA

Abstract

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A radio pulsar in the Galactic center will suffer 350 seconds of pulse broadening. An imaging search for compact sources is far less desensitized by angular broadening than a periodicity search is affected by pulse broadening. We have conducted an imaging survey of the GC using the VLA and have detected approximately 200 sources. Six compact, steep-spectrum sources have been identified; additional compact sources with no spectral information have also been identified. Additional observations are in progress.

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

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