PALFA Survey and Confirmations at F&M

Summary of PALFA survey data processing and analysis work done at F&M.

PALFA Pulsars Discovered by F&M Students

  • PSR J2000+19 (discovered by Dan Mix '17 in November 2015)
  • FRB 141113 (discovered by Ben Nguyen '18 in May 2016)
  • PSR J1919+04 (MSP) (discovered by Ben Nguyen '18 in July 2019)
  • PSR J1940+25 (MSP) (discovered by Issac Lin '22 in September 2019)

    Dedicated PALFA Confirmation Sessions 

    Project P3058

DATE          MJD   

20200105      58853
20180905a     58366
20180406a     58214
20180321      58198
20180311      58188
20160507      57515
20141104      56965
20140826      56896
20140511      56788
20140429      56776
20140330      56746
20140325      56741
20130920      56555
20130714      (not done - some done on 56555)
20130704a     56477
20130602      56445
20130601      56444
20130518a     56430
20130504      56416
20130211      56334

"a" indicates anti-center

    Links to Main PALFA Pages

  • CyberSKA web page
  • Arecibo Telescope Schedule
  • PALFA Survey on Wikipedia
  • Arecibo ALFA Pulsar Studies
  • Arecibo PALFA Homepage
  • Cornell PALFA Homepage
  • New PALFA Pulsars
  • Cornell PALFA Data Portal/Request
  • Pulsar Survey Scraper (Deneva script)

    Archived F&M Processing Statistics, Candidates, and Detections (up through April 2011)

  • Processed Beams Summary
  • Candidate Classifications Summary
  • Status Report and Graphs for Processing
  • Known Pulsars Within Area of Processed Beams
  • Processing Notes
  • Complete List of Pulsars Detected in F&M Processing
  • palfa_single_pulse_viewer.py (a PALFA single pulse plot viewer and rater script)

  • CLASS1 candidates (almost certainly a pulsar)
  • CLASS2 candidates (possibly a pulsar)
  • CLASS 6 candidates (known pulsar)
  • CLASS 7 candidates (harmonic of known pulsar)
  • Single Pulse candidates (single pulse/burst candidates)

    Below: The PALFA logo.