The LOFAR pilot surveys for pulsars and fast radio transients

© 2014 ESO .We have conducted two pilot surveys for radio pulsars and fast transients with the Low-Frequency Array (LOFAR) around 140 MHz and here report on the first low-frequency fast-radio burst limit and the discovery of two new pulsars. The first survey, the LOFAR Pilot Pulsar Survey (LPPS), ob...

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Main Authors: Coenen, T., Van Leeuwen, J., Hessels, J., Stappers, B., Kondratiev, V., Alexov, A., Breton, R., Bilous, A., Cooper, S., Falcke, H., Fallows, R., Gajjar, V., Grießmeier, J., Hassall, T., Karastergiou, A., Keane, E., Kramer, M., Kuniyoshi, M., Noutsos, A., Oslowski, S., Pilia, M., Serylak, M., Schrijvers, C., Sobey, Charlotte, Ter Veen, S., Verbiest, J., Weltevrede, P., Wijnholds, S., Zagkouris, K., Van Amesfoort, A., Anderson, J., Asgekar, A., Avruch, I., Bell, M., Bentum, M., Bernardi, G., Best, P., Bonafede, A., Breitling, F., Broderick, J., Brüggen, M., Butcher, H., Ciardi, B., Corstanje, A., Deller, A., Duscha, S., Eislöffel, J., Fender, R., Ferrari, C., Frieswijk, W., Garrett, M., De Gasperin, F., De Geus, E., Gunst, A., Hamaker, J., Heald, G., Hoeft, M., Van Der Horst, A., Juette, E., Kuper, G., Law, C., Mann, G., McFadden, R., McKay-Bukowski, D., McKean, J., Munk, H., Orru, E., Paas, H., Pandey-Pommier, M., Polatidis, A., Reich, W., Renting, A., Röttgering, H., Rowlinson, A., Scaife, A., Schwarz, D., Sluman, J., Smirnov, O., Swinbank, J.
Format: Journal Article
Published: EDP Sciences 2014
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/52279