Year 6 Pulsar Timing

Everything is (will be) explained in the memo, titled "Radio Pulsar Timing for Fermi: The Second Half-decade". This page houses the lists referred to in the memo.

Lucas documents his recent folding of >800 PKS JBO NAN pulsars at https://confluence.slac.stanford.edu/display/SCIGRPS/PSUE+-+July+2013 and in particular, Dave S reads results_wSearchPulsation.xls into BigFile to make the memo plots and tables for all >2000 known pulsars.

For context, you should read https://confluence.slac.stanford.edu/display/GLAMCOG/Pulsar+Timing and https://confluence.slac.stanford.edu/display/GLAMCOG/Year+2+Pulsar+Timing .

Here are our milestones:

• Draft zero to co-authors Lucas, Matthew K, and DJT, 25/10.
• Version to radio principals Johnston, Manchester, Stappers, Kramer, Cognard the week after.
• Nançay "every six months" proposal deadline, 5/11. In the past it has evolved little or slowly from proposal to proposal. This year we may make more substantial changes.
• Discuss with Galactic group, PTC, and PSC in mid-November.
• Parkes proposal deadline is 15/12. We are proposing a) all MSPs, please ; b) drop Edot > 1E34 pulsars showing no hint of gammas after 5 years ; c) add some low Edot pulsars, especially in the Deathline Edot range ; d) add a smattering of e.g. interpulse pulsars ; pulsars spatially co-located with weak Fermi DC sources.

The Table, below, will get cleaned up once the memo is in better shape: will just copy the LaTeX to WikiMarkup.

Have a nice day.