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The Bologna submillisecond pulsar survey

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Nichi D’Amico
Nichi D’Amico*
Affiliation:
Bologna Astronomical Observatory, via Ranzani 1, 40127 Bologna, Italy

Abstract

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Since the discovery of the original millisecond pulsar, no pulsars with a shorter spin period (P<1.56 ms) were found. However, according to the most popular equations of state, the theoretical limiting spin period of a neutron star can be much shorter. On the other hand, most of the large scale searches for millisecond pulsars carried out so far were strongly biased against the detection of ultrashort periodicities. In this paper we describe a new large scale pulsar survey with a minimum detectable period much shorter than previous searches.

Type
Part 1. Searching for Pulsars
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 177: Pulsar Astronomy - 2000 and Beyond , 2000 , pp. 27 - 30
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2000

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