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A radio pulsar in the Large Magellanic Cloud

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A high-sensitivity search for pulsars in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is in progress using the 64-m radio telescope at Parkes, New South Wales. About 7 square degrees have been searched to date, yielding the first extragalactic radio pulsar, PSR0529–66, and several promising but weaker candidates which require further observations. We report here that the new pulsar has a period of 0.9757141 s, a dispersion measure of 125 cm−3 pc, and a mean flux density of 1.4 mJy at 645 MHz. Its position is RA=05h 29min 30±1 s, dec=−66°57′±8′ (1950.0).

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  1. Department of Physics, University of Tasmania, PO Box 252C, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, 7001

    P. M. McCulloch & P. A. Hamilton

  2. CSIRO Division of Radiophysics, PO Box 76, Epping, New South Wales, Australia, 2121

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McCulloch, P., Hamilton, P., Ables, J. et al. A radio pulsar in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Nature 303, 307–308 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1038/303307a0

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