The green bank northern celestial cap pulsar survey. I. survey description, data analysis, and initial results

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 791, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Stovall, K ^a,b,c   Lynch, R S ^d   Ransom, S M ^e   Archibald, A M ^d,f   Banaszak, S ^g   Biwer, C M ^g,h   Boyles, J ⁱ   Dartez, L P ^a   Day, D ^g   Ford, A J ^a   Flanigan, J ^g   Garcia, A ^a   Hessels, J W T ^f,j   Hinojosa, J ^a   Jenet, F A ^a   Kaplan, D L ^g,k   Karako Argaman, C ^d   Kaspi, V M ^d   Kondratiev, V I ^f,l   Leake, S ^a   Lorimer, D R ^m   Lunsford, G ^a   Martinez, J G ^a   Mata, A ^a   McLaughlin, M A ^m   Roberts, M S E ⁿ   Rohr, M D ^g   Siemens, X ^g   Stairs, I H ^o   Van Leeuwen, J ^f   Walker, A N ^g   Wells, B L ^g,p   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT BROWNSVILLE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^d MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e NATIONAL RADIO ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^f ASTRON   (Netherlands)

^g UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^h SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^k UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^l LEBEDEV PHYSICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^m WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁿ Eureka Scientic   (United States)

^o UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^p Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering and School of Biomedical Engineering   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

binaries: close; binaries: eclipsing; binaries: general; pulsars: general; pulsars: individual; surveys

Indexed keywords

EID: 84905179778     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/791/1/67     Document Type: Article

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