Arecibo Pulsar Survey Using ALFA. I. Survey Strategy and First Discoveries
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Arecibo Pulsar Survey Using Alfa. I. Survey Strategy and First Discoveries
We report results from the initial stage of a long-term pulsar survey of the Galactic plane using the Arecibo L-band Feed Array (ALFA), a seven-beam receiver operating at 1.4 GHz with 0.3 GHz bandwidth, and fastdump digital spectrometers. The search targets low Galactic latitudes, |b| . 5, in the accessible longitude ranges, 32 . l . 77 and 168 . l . 214. The instrumentation, data processing, i...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Astrophysical Journal
سال: 2006
ISSN: 0004-637X,1538-4357
DOI: 10.1086/498335