Ryan S. Lynch, Anne M. Archibald, Shawn Banaszak, Alison Becker, Aaron Berndsen, Chris Biwer, Jason Boyles, Rogerio F. Cardoso, Angus Cherry, Louis P. Dartez, David Day, Courtney R. Epstein, Joe Flanigan, Anthony Ford, Alejandro Garcia, Jason W. T. Hessels, Fredrick A. Jenet, David L. Kaplan, Chen Karako-Argaman, Victoria M. Kaspi, Vladislav I. Kondratiev, Duncan R. Lorimer, Grady Lunsford, Jose Martinez, Maura A. McLaughlin, Christie A. McPhee, Tim Pennucci, Scott M. Ransom, Mallory S. E. Roberts, Matt Rohr, Xavi Siemens, Ingrid H. Stairs, Kevin Stovall, Joeri van Leeuwen, Arielle Walker, Brad Wells
The Green Bank Telescope (GBT) is the largest fully steerable radio telescope in the world and is one of our greatest tools for discovering and studying radio pulsars. Over the last decade, the GBT has successfully found over 100 new pulsars through large-area surveys. Here I discuss the two most recent---the GBT 350 MHz Drift-scan survey and the Green Bank North Celestial Cap survey. The primary science goal of both surveys is to find interesting individual pulsars, including young pulsars, rotating radio transients, exotic binary systems, and especially bright millisecond pulsars (MSPs) suitable for inclusion in Pulsar Timing Arrays, which are trying to directly detect gravitational waves. These two surveys have combined to discover 85 pulsars to date, among which are 14 MSPs and many unique and fascinating systems. I present highlights from these surveys and discuss future plans. I also discuss recent results from targeted GBT pulsar searches of globular clusters and Fermi sources.
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http://arxiv.org/abs/1303.5316
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