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Millisecond Pulsar Surveys

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

M. Bailes
M. Bailes*
Affiliation:
Physics Department, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria 3052, Australia. email: mbailes@physics.unimelb.edu.au

Abstract

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There are now more than 30 millisecond pulsars known to be associated with the Galactic disk. The majority of these have been discovered in just the last few years as the result of large-scale all-sky surveys. The properties of the population vary tremendously. One unique object hosts a planetary system, more than half of those discovered possess white dwarf companions, two have extremely low-mass companions that are undergoing mass-loss and several others appear to be solitary. In this review I discuss the methods employed to find these millisecond pulsars, the parallels with early surveys for “normal” pulsars, and possible strategies for future searches.

Type
Part 1 The Pulsar Population
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 160: Pulsars: Problems and Progress , 1996 , pp. 3 - 10
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1996

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