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 (=LAT. PKS may think otherwise) are proposing a) all MSPs, please ; b) drop Edot > 1E34 pulsars showing no hint of gammas after 5 years ; c) maybe drop pulsars that can be observed by Northern telescopes ; d) add some low Edot pulsars, especially in the Deathline Edot range ; e) 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.
File name |
Purpose |
Cuts |
N pulsars |
---|---|---|---|
Folded 5 years, never a hint of pulsations, south. |
dec < -35, Edot > 1E34, HTS < 20 |
62 |
|
Northgt1E34noPulsar_zotz.data |
ditto, north. |
ditto, dec > -35 |
|
All_gt1E34unfolded.txt |
Two dozen Edot > 1E34 not-gamma-folded pulsars |
|
51 boil down to 24 boil down to 19 |
Lucas phase-folding of >800 pulsars |
Anything we can get our hands on. |
826 includes the 2PC pulsars. |
|
DeathSouthNoTime.dat |
Focus on the deathline region |
1E33 < Edot < 1E34, dec < -35, abs(b) > 3, Dist1 < 5 |
46 |
Not much -- only one or three not phase-folded. |
|
27 boils down to <4. |