Parkes Multibeam Pulsar Survey
(PMPS)
(late 1990s radio survey in search of pulsars)
The Parkes Multibeam Pulsar Survey was a late 1990s
astronomical survey to identify pulsars. It was carried
out with the Parkes Observatory MB20 multibeam receiver, a
grid of thirteen feed horns that defined a pattern of thirteen
beams, which was developed for 21-cm line surveys. Detecting
pulsars requires teasing out pulsar-specific-characteristics of
their relatively weak signals from among all the sky's sources of
radio, the weak signals requiring far too much integration time
to discern pulses. The receiver, in addition to gathering data on
thirteen portions of the sky simultaneously, provided enough of a
spectral energy distribution (SED) to allow detection of pulsar candidates by their
spectral indexes. Analysis of the data extended into the 2000s.
Hundreds of pulsars were identified.
(pulsars,survey,radio)
Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkes_Observatory
https://www.atnf.csiro.au/pasa/18_1/manchester/paper/node3.html
https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/W3Browse/all/pmpulsar.html
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2000ASPC..202....3C/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2001MNRAS.328...17M/abstract
WaveL | Freq | Photon Energy | | |
21cm | 1.5GHz | 6.0μeV | | Parkes Multibeam Pulsar Survey |
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