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Search for and study of pulsars with the Nançay Radio Telescope

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 June 2018

Franck Octau ,
Grégory Desvignes ,
Ismaël Cognard ,
David Champion ,
Patrick Lazarus ,
David Smith  and
Gilles Theureau
Franck Octau
Affiliation:
Laboratoire de Physique et Chimie de l’Environnement et de l’Espace LPC2E CNRS-Université d’Orléans, F-45071 Orléans Cedex 02, France email: franck.octau@cnrs-orleans.fr
Grégory Desvignes
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie, Auf dem Hügel 69, D-53121 Bonn, Germany
Ismaël Cognard
Affiliation:
Laboratoire de Physique et Chimie de l’Environnement et de l’Espace LPC2E CNRS-Université d’Orléans, F-45071 Orléans Cedex 02, France email: franck.octau@cnrs-orleans.fr Station de radioastronomie de Nançay, Observatoire de Paris, CNRS/INSU, F-18330 Nançay, France
David Champion
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie, Auf dem Hügel 69, D-53121 Bonn, Germany
Patrick Lazarus
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie, Auf dem Hügel 69, D-53121 Bonn, Germany
David Smith
Affiliation:
Université Bordeaux 1, CNRS/IN2P3, CENBG Gradignan, F-33175 Gradignan, France
Gilles Theureau
Affiliation:
Laboratoire de Physique et Chimie de l’Environnement et de l’Espace LPC2E CNRS-Université d’Orléans, F-45071 Orléans Cedex 02, France email: franck.octau@cnrs-orleans.fr Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie, Auf dem Hügel 69, D-53121 Bonn, Germany Laboratoire Univers et Théories LUTh, Observatoire de Paris, CNRS/INSU, Université Paris Diderot, 5 place Jules Janssen, 92190 Meudon, France
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Abstract

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Since the discovery of the first pulsar in 1967, over 2500 pulsars have been discovered. Pulsars enable a broad range of studies: from the study of the properties of the interstellar medium and of pulsar magnetospheres to tests of gravity in the strong-field regime and the characterisation of the cosmological gravitation wave background. These reasons are the main drive for searching for more pulsars. A blind pulsar survey, named SPAN512, was initiated with the Nançay Radio Telescope in 2012. Conducted at 1.4 GHz with a sampling time of 64μs and 500-kHz frequency channels, SPAN512 was designed to search for fast and distant pulsars in the Galactic plane. Here we describe the current status of the survey and present the latest discovery, PSR J2055+3829, a 2.08-ms pulsar in a black widow system.

Keywords

surveys(stars:) pulsars: individual (PSR J2048+49, PSR J2205+60PSR J2055+3829)
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 13 , Symposium S337: Pulsar Astrophysics the Next Fifty Years , September 2017 , pp. 386 - 387
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2018 

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