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Pilot pulsar surveys with LOFAR

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 March 2013

Thijs Coenen
Thijs Coenen*
Affiliation:
Anton Pannekoek Instituut, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Postbus 94249, Amsterdam, The Netherlands email: [email protected]
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Abstract

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We are performing two complementary pilot pulsar surveys as part of LOFAR commissioning. The LOFAR Pilot Pulsar Survey (LPPS) is a shallow all-sky survey using an incoherent combination of LOFAR stations. The LOFAR Tied-Array Survey (LOTAS) is a deeper pilot survey using 19 simultaneous tied-array beams. These will inform a forthcoming deep survey of the entire northern hemisphere, which is expected to discover hundreds of pulsars. Here we present early results from LPPS and LOTAS, among which are two independent pulsar discoveries.

Keywords

stars: neutronpulsars: generalsurveys
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 8 , Symposium S291: Neutron Stars and Pulsars: Challenges and Opportunities after 80 years , August 2012 , pp. 229 - 232
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2013

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