... The pulsar consortium met on 1-2 November 2002 in Arecibo. ... Preliminary parameters for the pulsar surveys will produce on the order of 1 Pbyte of raw data over the course of 3-5 years. ... Young canonical pulsars (galactic plane) . ... The Parkes Multibeam Pulsar Survey adopted an integration time of 2100 sec. Surveys with ALFA need only 20 sec to match this sensitivity, but we want 300 sec to go much deeper. ... For pulsar surveys, we require the following in a spectrometer: . ... Jim . ...

... 2.3 Data acquisition Spectra generated by the Multibeam correlator contain the usual structure seen in spectra from other H i instruments: a bandpass spectrum which is the sum of the sky , ground and receiver temperatures multiplied by the product of the filters in the receiver chain; superimposed on this is a noise ... Note also that sources extended much beyond ,40 arcmin can be imaged poorly in HIPASS images because of the bandpass sidelobe effect described in Section 3.3. ...