J/MNRAS/427/1052 HTRU survey. Timing of 54 pulsars (Bates+, 2012)
The High Time Resolution Universe Pulsar Survey.
VI. An artificial neural network and timing of 75 pulsars.
Bates S.D., Bailes M., Barsdell B.R., Bhat N.D.R., Burgay M.,
Burke-Spolaor S., Champion D.J., Coster P., D'Amico N., Jameson A.,
Johnston S., Keith M.J., Kramer M., Levin L., Lyne A., Milia S., Ng C.,
Nietner C., Possenti A., Stappers B., Thornton D., Van Straten W.
<Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 427, 1052-1065 (2012)>
=2012MNRAS.427.1052B 2012MNRAS.427.1052B (SIMBAD/NED BibCode)
ADC_Keywords: Surveys ; Pulsars
Keywords: methods: data analysis - stars: neutron - pulsars: general
Abstract:
We present 75 pulsars discovered in the mid-latitude portion of the
High Time Resolution Universe survey, 54 of which have full timing
solutions. All the pulsars have spin periods greater than 100ms, and
none of those with timing solutions is in binaries. Two display
particularly interesting behaviour; PSR J1054-5944 is found to be an
intermittent pulsar, and PSR J1809-0119 has glitched twice since its
discovery.
In the second half of the paper we discuss the development and
application of an artificial neural network in the data-processing
pipeline for the survey. We discuss the tests that were used to
generate scores and find that our neural network was able to reject
over 99per cent of the candidates produced in the data processing, and
able to blindly detect 85per cent of pulsars. We suggest that
improvements to the accuracy should be possible if further care is
taken when training an artificial neural network; for example,
ensuring that a representative sample of the pulsar population is used
during the training process, or the use of different artificial neural
networks for the detection of different types of pulsars.
Description:
All the pulsars presented here were discovered in the HTRU
mid-latitude survey, which has now been fully processed. The survey
observed the Galactic plane in the region -120°<l<30° and
b≤15° (see Keith et al., 2010MNRAS.409..619K 2010MNRAS.409..619K, for more details).
After the discovery and subsequent confirmation observations with the
Parkes 64-m radio telescope, pulsars with declinations
δ>-35° were regularly observed using the 76-m Lovell
Telescope and those below this declination were observed as part of
the HTRU timing programme at Parkes.
File Summary:
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FileName Lrecl Records Explanations
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ReadMe 80 . This file
table3.dat 113 54 Observable parameters for each of the pulsars
with a full timing solution
table4.dat 51 54 Derived parameters for each of the pulsars with
a full timing solution, based on the values
in Table 3
tablea1.dat 61 725 Parameters and S/N ratios for detections of
previously-known pulsars by the processing
pipeline in the mid-latitude portion of the
HTRU survey
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See also:
J/MNRAS/423/1351 : Energy distribution in pulsars (Burke-Spolaor+, 2012)
J/MNRAS/450/2922 : HTRU survey new pulsars (Ng+, 2015)
http://www.atnf.csiro.au/research/pulsar/psrcat/ : ATNF Home Page
Byte-by-byte Description of file: table3.dat
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Bytes Format Units Label Explanations
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1- 10 A10 --- Pulsar Pulsar name (JHHMM-DDMM)
12- 13 I2 h RAh Right ascension (J2000)
15- 16 I2 min RAm Right ascension (J2000)
18- 23 F6.3 s RAs Right ascension (J2000)
25- 29 F5.3 s e_RAs rms uncertainty on RA (1σ) (1)
31 A1 --- DE- Declination sign (J2000)
32- 33 I2 deg DEd Declination (J2000)
35- 36 I2 arcmin DEm Declination (J2000)
38- 42 F5.2 arcsec DEs Declination (J2000)
44- 48 F5.2 arcsec e_DEs rms uncertainty on DE (1σ) (1)
50- 63 F14.12 s Per Period
65- 78 F14.12 s e_Per rms uncertainty on Per (1σ) (1)
80- 84 I5 d Epoch Period epoch (MJD)
86- 92 F7.4 10-15 dP/dt Period derivative
94- 99 F6.4 10-15 e_dP/dt rms uncertainty on dP/dt (1σ) (1)
102-107 F6.2 pc/cm3 DM Dispersion measure
109-113 F5.2 pc/cm3 e_DM rms uncertainty on DM (1σ) (1)
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Note (1): errors as reported by TEMPO2.
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: table4.dat
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Bytes Format Units Label Explanations
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1- 10 A10 --- Pulsar Pulsare name (JHHMM-DDMM)
12- 16 F5.1 deg GLON Galactic longitude
18- 22 F5.1 deg GLAT Galactic latitude
24 A1 --- l_d Limit flag on d
25- 29 F5.2 kpc d Distance (1)
31- 37 F7.2 Myr tauc Characteristic age
39- 43 F5.2 10+11gauss Bsurf Surface magnetic flux density
45- 51 F7.4 10+25W dE/dt Spin down energy loss rate (in 1032erg/s)
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Note (1): Estimates of the distance are based upon a Galactic electron density
model by Cordes & Lazio (2002, preprint (arXiv:astro-ph/0207156)).
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: tablea1.dat
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Bytes Format Units Label Explanations
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1- 11 A11 --- Pulsar Pulsar Name
(JHHMM+DDMM, JHHMM+DDMMA or JHHMM+DDMMm)
14- 21 F8.6 s Per Period
22 A1 --- n_Per [*] Note on Per (1)
24- 30 F7.2 pc/cm+3 DM Dispersion measure
31 A1 --- n_DM [*] Note on DM (1)
33- 39 F7.2 mJy S1400 ?=- Radio flux at 1.4GHz (2)
41- 47 F7.3 deg GLON Galactic longitude (2)
49- 55 F7.3 deg GLAT Galactic latitude (2)
57- 61 F5.1 --- S/N Signal-to-noise ratio
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Note (1): * indicates that the pulsar was published with an incorrect period
or DM. The corrected value is shown here.
Note (2): Galactic coordinates and radio fluxes (for an observing frequency
of 1.4GHz) are taken from the pulsar catalogue, where possible.
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History:
From electronic version of the journal
References:
Keith et al., Paper I 2010MNRAS.409..619K 2010MNRAS.409..619K
Bates et al., Paper II 2011MNRAS.416.2455B 2011MNRAS.416.2455B
Burke-Spolaor et al., Paper III 2011MNRAS.416.2465B 2011MNRAS.416.2465B
Keith et al., Paper IV 2012MNRAS.419.1752K 2012MNRAS.419.1752K
Burke-Spolaor et al., Paper V 2012MNRAS.423.1351B 2012MNRAS.423.1351B, Cat. J/MNRAS/423/1351
Burgay et al., Paper VII 2013MNRAS.433..259B 2013MNRAS.433..259B
Levin et al., Paper VIII 2013MNRAS.434.1387L 2013MNRAS.434.1387L
Tiburzi et al., Paper IX 2013MNRAS.436.3557T 2013MNRAS.436.3557T
Ng et al., Paper X 2014MNRAS.439.1865N 2014MNRAS.439.1865N
Bates et al., Paper XI 2015MNRAS.446.4019B 2015MNRAS.446.4019B
Ng et al., Paper XII 2015MNRAS.450.2922N 2015MNRAS.450.2922N, Cat. J/MNRAS/450/2922
Cameron et al. Paper XIII 2018MNRAS.475L..57C 2018MNRAS.475L..57C
(End) Patricia Vannier [CDS] 09-Nov-2018