Arecibo Pulsar Survey Using Alfa: Probing Radio Pulsar Intermittency And Transients
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2009
Abstract
We present radio transient search algorithms, results, and statistics from the ongoing Arecibo Pulsar ALFA (PALFA) Survey of the Galactic plane. We have discovered seven objects by detecting isolated dispersed pulses and one of the new discoveries has a duty cycle of 0.01%, the smallest known. The impact of selection effects on the detectability and classification of intermittent sources is discussed, and the relative efficiencies of periodicity vs. single pulse searches are compared for various pulsar classes. We find that scintillation, off-axis detection and few rotation periods within an observation may misrepresent normal periodic pulsars as intermittent sources. Finally, we derive constraints on transient pulse rate and flux density from the PALFA survey parameters and results.
Digital Commons Citation
Deneva, J. S.; McLaughlin, M. A.; Edel, S.; and Kondratiev, V. I., "Arecibo Pulsar Survey Using Alfa: Probing Radio Pulsar Intermittency And Transients" (2009). Faculty & Staff Scholarship. 1069.
https://researchrepository.wvu.edu/faculty_publications/1069
Source Citation
Deneva, J. S., McLaughlin, M. A., Edel, S., Kondratiev, V. I. (2009). Arecibo Pulsar Survey Using Alfa: Probing Radio Pulsar Intermittency And Transients. The Astrophysical Journal, 703(2), 2259-2274. http://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/703/2/2259