Targeted search for young radio pulsars in the SMC: discovery of two new pulsars
Targeted search for young radio pulsars in the SMC: discovery of two new pulsars
We report the first rotation powered pulsars discovered in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) in more than a decade. PSR J0043-73 and PSR J0052-72 were discovered during a Parkes Multi-Beam (PMB) survey of MCSNR J0127-7332, and five new, optically selected, supernova remnant (SNR) candidates identified by the XMM Newton survey. In addition to the candidates, we adjusted the PMB rotation to include an additional nine SNRs and pulsar wind nebulae. We searched for young pulsars (1-200 ms) employing a Fourier analysis with PRESTO, as well as a search for longer period pulsars (200ms-360 s) with a fast folding algorithm. Our targeted survey had a limiting flux density of 0.039 mJy for periods greater than 50 ms. Although not the main target of this search it was also sensitive to millisecond pulsars. PSR J0043-73 has a period and dispersion measure of 937.42937 (26) ms and 115.1 (3.4) pc cm^-3 respectively, and PSR J0052-72 has a period of 191.444328 (46) ms and a DM of 158.6 (1.6) pc cm^-3.
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Titus, N.
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Morello, V.
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Caleb, M.
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Filipovic, M.D.
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McBride, V.A.
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Ho, W.C.G.
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Buckley, D.A.H.
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August 2019
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Morello, V.
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Caleb, M.
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Filipovic, M.D.
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McBride, V.A.
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Ho, W.C.G.
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Buckley, D.A.H.
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Titus, N., Stappers, B. W., Morello, V., Caleb, M., Filipovic, M.D., McBride, V.A., Ho, W.C.G. and Buckley, D.A.H.
(2019)
Targeted search for young radio pulsars in the SMC: discovery of two new pulsars.
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 487 (3), .
(doi:10.1093/mnras/stz1578).
Abstract
We report the first rotation powered pulsars discovered in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) in more than a decade. PSR J0043-73 and PSR J0052-72 were discovered during a Parkes Multi-Beam (PMB) survey of MCSNR J0127-7332, and five new, optically selected, supernova remnant (SNR) candidates identified by the XMM Newton survey. In addition to the candidates, we adjusted the PMB rotation to include an additional nine SNRs and pulsar wind nebulae. We searched for young pulsars (1-200 ms) employing a Fourier analysis with PRESTO, as well as a search for longer period pulsars (200ms-360 s) with a fast folding algorithm. Our targeted survey had a limiting flux density of 0.039 mJy for periods greater than 50 ms. Although not the main target of this search it was also sensitive to millisecond pulsars. PSR J0043-73 has a period and dispersion measure of 937.42937 (26) ms and 115.1 (3.4) pc cm^-3 respectively, and PSR J0052-72 has a period of 191.444328 (46) ms and a DM of 158.6 (1.6) pc cm^-3.
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Accepted/In Press date: 4 June 2019
e-pub ahead of print date: 10 June 2019
Published date: August 2019
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