From Simon.Johnston@atnf.csiro.au Sat Feb 10 18:23:37 2007 Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 10:56:39 +1100 (EST) From: Simon Johnston To: smith@cenbg.in2p3.fr Subject: my notes from Stanford meeting FEB 2007 -------- Progress report from the ATNF - Parkes 64-m Johnston, Weltevrede, Manchester, Hobbs Recently employed Patrick Weltevrede to work on this project. He'll start on July 1 this year. Proposal submitted Dec 15 for observations July-October 2007. Should hear from the TAC soon. Major proposal needed on June 15 for Oct 07 - Apr 08 period. Note old P276 proposal active since around 1990 looking at young and interesting pulsars. Initial test time requested 1 day April, May, June 5 days July 3 days August, September Initial quick analysis Took Roger's t.1.list and t.3.list = 215 pulsars Parkes observed 124 of these during 2006. Computed time required to get 1mP accuracy OR 1000 pulses. Total time = 60 hrs observing BUT 23 hrs taken up by 1210-5226, 6 hrs with 1124-5916 and 3 hrs with 1747-2958 = 1/2 the time !! --> 1 mP way too optimistic for these guys. Estimate that 2x16 hr sessions plenty to observe all pulsars (except 1210-5226). Haven't yet really considered the RATE at which these will need to be observed (and that's crucial). But there should be enough info in the database to be able to do this. 27 pulsars south of -30 declination not observed: 9 are MSPs (6 from 47Tuc) 2 are the LMC pulsars 16 are normal pulsars, 12 are PM pulsars need to look up in the database but I can't imagine that any of these will prove too painful (they all have timing solutions). Simon Johnston