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Title: No Dispersed Single Radio Pulses Detected in Archival Parkes Pulsar Observations Targeting Supernova Remnants and Anomalous X-Ray Pulsars
Abstract

Four supernova remnants and four anomalous X-ray pulsars were previously observed with the Parkes telescope in a campaign to detect pulsed radio emission from associated neutron stars. No signals were detected in the original searches of these data. I have reprocessed the data with the more recently developed HEIMDALL and FETCH software packages, which are optimized for single-pulse detection and classification. In this new analysis, no astrophysical pulses were detected having a signal-to-noise ratio above 7 from any of the targets at dispersion measures ranging from 0 to 104pc cm−3. I include calculated fluence limits on single radio pulses from these targets.

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Award ID(s):
2020265
PAR ID:
10501160
Author(s) / Creator(s):
Publisher / Repository:
Research Notes of the AAS
Date Published:
Journal Name:
Research Notes of the AAS
Volume:
7
Issue:
11
ISSN:
2515-5172
Page Range / eLocation ID:
238
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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