Further searches for Rotating Radio Transients in the Parkes Multi-beam Pulsar Survey
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| Publication date | 2010 |
| Journal | Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society |
| Volume | Issue number | 401 | 2 |
| Pages (from-to) | 1057-1068 |
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| Abstract |
We describe the steps involved in performing searches for sources of transient radio emission such as Rotating Radio Transients (RRATs), and present 10 new transient radio sources discovered in a re-analysis of the Parkes Multi-beam Pulsar Survey. Followup observations of each new source as well as one previously known source are also presented. The new sources suggest that the population of transient radio-emitting neutron stars, and hence the neutron star population in general, may be even larger than initially predicted. We highlight the importance of radio frequency interference excision for single-pulse searches. Also, we discuss some interesting properties of individual sources and consider the difficulties involved in precisely defining a RRAT and determining where they fit in with the other known classes of neutron stars.
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| Document type | Article |
| Note | ID: 569 |
| Language | English |
| Published at | https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2966.2009.15693.x |
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