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. |
Edot > 1E34, HTS < 20 |
62 south, 68 north. |
|
Track down stragglers |
Edot > 1E34 but no .par file. |
51 boil down to 24 boil down to 19 |
|
Lucas phase-folding of >800 pulsars |
Anything we can get our hands on. |
805 includes 2PC, misses some GBT, RXTE.. |
|
Focus on the deathline region |
1E33 < Edot < 1E34, dec < -35, abs(b) > 3, Dist1 < 5 |
37 south, 12 north |
|
Spatial coincidences with weak LAT sources |
angsep < error ellipse |
~30 boil down to ~10. |
|
Not much -- only one or three not phase-folded. |
Not MSP, with radio interpulse |
27 boils down to <4. |