The Green Bank North Celestial Cap Pulsar Survey: Status and Future

Abstract

The ongoing Green Bank North Celestial Cap pulsar survey is using the Green Bank Telescope to search for pulsars and transients over 85% of the celestial sphere. The survey has resulted in over 150 new pulsars, among which are high-precision millisecond pulsars, several binary pulsars, including at least one relativistic double neutron star system, nulling pulsars, and several nearby millisecond pulsars. We find no fast radio bursts in the survey to date. We present these results and discuss the future prospects for the survey.

Radio Pulsar Populations

“…Our understanding of the Galactic population of MSPs and, more generally, recycled pulsars over the past decade has been significantly improved. This is thanks, in large part, to a great increase in sample size provided by a number of large-scale surveys of the Galactic disk at Parkes [46], Green Bank [47], Arecibo [48], Effelsberg [49] and the Low-Frequency Array [50]. These surveys have greatly increased the sample size such that the number of Galactic MSPs now outnumbers their counterparts in globular clusters.…”