Survey DB

A listing of every major pulsar survey conducted since 1967.

Overview

Here we've provided two interactive tables. The first contains specifications for all major pulsar surveys conducted since 1967. The second (below the first) contains data/search pipleline information for the same surveys. Some surveys used multiple search pipelines (or parameters), and these are listed as separate entries. Bibtex citations for each survey can be obtained by simply clicking the reference(s) next to the survey name. We hope you find this resource useful. We've tried to make it as complete and accurate as possible. Note that the omission of a survey here should be treated as a mistake, as opposed to a judgement on its significance. If you notice any errors, or would like to add a new entry, please get in touch via or

Acknowledgement

If you wish to acknowledge use of the pulsar survey database, please refer to Lyon et al. 2016 using this bibtex entry.

Links to the Lyon et al. 2016 paper: arxiv, ads, MNRAS

Survey Specifications

Note that some values in the tables below have been rounded to 3.d.p. The unformatted values can be found in the database file, which can be downloaded above.
Survey Survey Year Telescope Centre Freq. (Mhz) Bandwidth (Mhz) Channel Width (Khz) Channels Sampling (μ sec) Integration time (secs) Beams Pointings Region Region Sq. Deg.
1st Cambridge Survey [1] 1967 IPS Array Interplanetary Scintillation Array 81.5 1 ? ? 100000 ? ? ? Whole sky -8° > δ > 44° ?
1st Molonglo Survey [2] 1968 Molonglo Molonglo 408 4 2000 2 5000 15 1 ? |b| < 10°,
|b| > 10°		 22980
Search at Low Galactic Latitudes [3,4] 1969 Jodrell Bank Lovell 408 4 ? ? 50000 819 1 431 b=-1°, b=0°, b=+1°,
11° ≤ l ≤ 125°		 ?
Arecibo Survey 1 [5] 197? Arecibo Arecibo 430 8 250 32 5600 198 1 ~1909 -5° ≤ b ≤ 5°,
35° ≤ l ≤ 75°,
170° ≤ l ≤ 210°		 52
Jodrell Survey A [6] 1972 Jodrell Bank Lovell 408 4 2000 2 40000 660 1 ? -10° ≤ b ≤ 10°,
0° ≤ l ≤ 200°		 ~4924
2nd Molonglo Survey [7] 1977 Molonglo Molonglo 408 4 800 4 20000 44.7 11 ? -85° < δ < +20° ~27576
Green Bank Northern Hemisphere Survey [8,9] 1977 GBT Green Bank 400 16 2000 8 16700 144 ? ? δ > +20° ?
Princeton-NRAO Survey [10] 1982-83 Arecibo Arecibo 390 16 2000 8 5555.566 138 24000 ? δ ≥ -18° ~5909
Green Bank Short-period Survey [11] 1983 GBT Green Bank 390 8 250 32 2000 132 ? ? |b| < 15°,
15° < l < 230°		 ~3725
Jodrell Survey B [12] 1983-84 Jodrell Bank Lovell 1400 40 5000 8 2000 540 ? ? |b| < 1°,
-4° ≤ l ≤ 105°		 200
Arecibo Survey 2 (a) Phase II Princeton-NRAO [13] 1983 GBT Green Bank 390 8 250 32 2000 132 1 14195 δ ≥ -18° ~3725
Arecibo Survey 2 (b) [13] 1984-85 Arecibo Arecibo 430 0.96 60 16 300 39 1 12830 |b| < 10°,
40° < l < 65°		 289
Survey for millisecond pulsars at Molonglo [14] 1985-86 Molonglo Molonglo 843 3.2 200 16 500 132 1 7000 -1° < |b| < +1°,
255° < l < 360°		 210
Jodrell Survey C (610 MHz) [15] 1985-87 Jodrell Bank Lovell 610 4/8 125/250 32 300 79 1 ? Region furthest from Galactic centre, northern galactic plane ~1500
Jodrell Survey C (925 MHz) [15] 1985-87 Jodrell Bank Lovell 925 8 250 32 300 79 1 ? ? See Jodrell Survey C (610 MHz)
Jodrell Survey C (928 MHz) [15] 1985-87 Jodrell Bank Lovell 928 8 250 32 300 79 1 ? 1° < |b| < 2° See Jodrell Survey C (610 MHz)
Jodrell Survey C (1420 MHz) [15] 1985-87 Jodrell Bank Lovell 1420 32 1000 32 300 79 1 ? |b| < 1°,
0° < l < 60°		 See Jodrell Survey C (610 MHz)
Parkes Globular Cluster Survey (20cm) [16,17] 1989-90 Parkes Parkes 1491 80/320 1000/5000 80/64 300 3000 ? ? ? ?
Parkes Globular Cluster Survey (50cm) [16,17] 1988-90 Parkes Parkes 640 32 250 128 300 3000/4500 ? ? ? ?
Arecibo Survey 3 [18] 198? Arecibo Arecibo 430 10 78.125 128 516.625 67.7 1 10300 |b| < 8° ~260
Parkes 20-cm Survey (System I) [19] 1988 Parkes Parkes 1434 800 1000 80 300 78.6 ? ? |b| < 4°,
20° ≤ l ≤ 270° 		800 (Systems I and II)
Parkes 20-cm Survey (System II) [19] 1988 Parkes Parkes 1520 320 5000 64 1200 157.3 ? ? |b| < 4°,
20° ≤ l ≤ 270° 		See Parkes 20-cm Survey (System I)
Arecibo 430 MHz Intermediate Galactic Latitude Survey [20] 1989-91 Arecibo Arecibo 430 10 78.125 128 506.625 66.4 1 6121 7° < |b| < 20° 130
High Galactic Latitude Pulsar Survey of the Arecibo Sky (H1) [21] 1990 Arecibo Arecibo 430 10 250 128 506 ~40 ? ~91000 Primarily covering northern latitudes |b| > 15° to the Galactic pole (H1-H5) 146
High Galactic Latitude Pulsar Survey of the Arecibo Sky (H2) [21] 1991 Arecibo Arecibo 430 8 250 32 250 ~40 ? See High Galactic Latitude Pulsar Survey of the Arecibo Sky (H1) See High Galactic Latitude Pulsar Survey of the Arecibo Sky (H1) 228
High Galactic Latitude Pulsar Survey of the Arecibo Sky (H3) [21] 1992 Arecibo Arecibo 430 8 250 32 250 ~40 ? See High Galactic Latitude Pulsar Survey of the Arecibo Sky (H1) See High Galactic Latitude Pulsar Survey of the Arecibo Sky (H1) 214
High Galactic Latitude Pulsar Survey of the Arecibo Sky (H4) [21] 1993 Arecibo Arecibo 430 8 250 32 250 ~40 ? See High Galactic Latitude Pulsar Survey of the Arecibo Sky (H1) See High Galactic Latitude Pulsar Survey of the Arecibo Sky (H1) 240
High Galactic Latitude Pulsar Survey of the Arecibo Sky (H5) [21] 1994-95 Arecibo Arecibo 430 8 250 32 250 ~40 ? See High Galactic Latitude Pulsar Survey of the Arecibo Sky (H1) See High Galactic Latitude Pulsar Survey of the Arecibo Sky (H1) 527
Arecibo Survey 4 Phase I [22] 1991 Arecibo Arecibo 430 10 78.125 128 516.625 67.7 1 ? -8° < b < 8°,
35° < l < 65°		 235
Arecibo Survey 4 Phase II [23] 1992 Arecibo Arecibo 429 8 250 64 250 ~40 1 ? -50° < b < -25°,
70° < l <130°		 162
Parkes Southern Pulsar Survey [24] 1991-93 Parkes Parkes 436 32 1250 256 300 157.3 1 44299 Entire southern hemisphere ~20626.5
2nd Cambridge Survey [25] 1993-94 IPS Array Interplanetary Scintillation Array 81.5 ? ? 256 256 ? ? ? -20° > δ > 86° ?
Jodrell Millisecond Pulsar Survey [26] 1993-94 Jodrell Bank Lovell 418 8 125 64 300 315 ? ? 35° > δ > 90° ?
A search for pulsars in supernova remnants [64] 1994-96 Lovell Lovell 606 8 125 64 1000 2100 1 129 supernova remnants where δ > 30°
Green Bank Fast Pulsar Survey [27] 1994-96 GBT Green Bank 370 40 78.125 512 256 134 ? ? ~77% of Northern Hemisphere 17400
Parkes Multibeam Pulsar Survey [28,29] 1997 Parkes Parkes 1374 288 3000 96 250 2100 13 2670 |b| < 5°,
50° < l < 260°		 1550
The Bologna submillisecond pulsar survey [30] 1998-99 Parkes Northern Cross 408 4 32 128 64 67 ? ? 4° < δ < 42° ?
A 1400-MHz pilot search for young pulsars [65] 1994-96 Effelsberg Effelsberg 1402 16 4000 4 500 2100 ? ? 28° < l < 30°,
|b| < 0.5°
The Effelsberg 1.4 GHz Medium Galactic Latitude Survey (EMLS) [66] 1994-2002 Effelsberg Effelsberg 1395/1402/1408 10/20 ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Swinburne Intermediate-lat Pulsar Survey [31] 1998-99 Parkes Parkes 1374 288 3000 96 125 265 13 4764 5° < b < 15°,
-100° < l < 50°		 1191
Parkes High-lat Multibeam Pulsar Survey [32] 2000-03 Parkes Parkes 1374 288 3000 96 125 265 13 6456 |b| < 60°,
220° < l < 260°		 ?
Survey of The Magellanic Clouds [33] 2000-01 Parkes Parkes 1374 288 3000 96 1000 8400 13 209 Magellanic Clouds ?
1.4 GHz Arecibo Survey (DM < 100) [34] 2001-02 Arecibo Arecibo 1175 100 0.390 256 64 7200 1 ? Every known Galactic globular cluster visible from Arecibo, within 70 kpc of the Sun without any selection bias toward larger or denser clusters. ?
1.4 GHz Arecibo Survey (DM > 100) [34] 2001-02 Arecibo Arecibo 1475 100 0.195 512 128 7200 1 ? Every known Galactic globular cluster visible from Arecibo, within 70 kpc of the Sun without any selection bias toward larger or denser clusters. ?
Large Area Survey for Radio Pulsars [35] 2001-02 Parkes Parkes 1374 288 3000 96 125 256 13 7232 15° ≤ b ≤ 30°,
-100° ≤ l ≤ 50°		 ~4150
EGRET 56 Pulsar Survey [36] 2002-03 Parkes Parkes 1374 288 3000 96 125 2100 13 232 5° < |b| < 73° ?
EGRET Error Box Survey [37] 2003 Arecibo Arecibo 327 25 48.828 512 125 260 1 224 |b|>5°,
2° < δ < 38°		 9.6
A0327 Pilot [38] 2003 Arecibo Arecibo 327 25 48.828 512 256 60 ? ? -1° < δ < 28°, excluding the region within 5° of the Galactic plane ?
The Perseus Arm Pulsar Survey [39] 2004-09 Parkes Parkes 1374 288 3000 96 125 2100 13 913 |b| < 5°,
200° < l < 260°		 ?
The 8gr8 Cygnus Survey [40,41] 2004-05 Westerbork Westerbork 328 10 19.531 512 819.2 6872 ? 144 The region of the Galactic plane between
-0.25° < b < 7.25°,
100° < l < 40°		 420
Parkes Deep Northern Galactic Plane Survey [42] 2004-05 Parkes Parkes 1374 288 3000 96 125 4200 13 120 |b| ≤ 2°,
50° ≤ l ≤ 60°		 ?
P-ALFA Survey (intial) (WAPP) [43,44] 2004 Arecibo Arecibo 1420 100 390.625 256 64 134 7 1784 |b| ≤ 5°,
32° ≤ l ≤ 77°,
168° ≤ l ≤ 214°		 ?
P-ALFA Survey (anticipated) (WAPP) [43,44] 2004-10 Arecibo Arecibo 1420 300 390.625 1024 64 134 7 ? |b| ≤ 5°,
32° ≤ l ≤ 77°,
168° ≤ l ≤ 214°		 ?
6.5 Ghz Multibeam Pulsar Survey [45] 2006-07 Parkes Parkes 6591 576 3000 192 125 1055 7 2560 |b| ≤ 0.25°,
-60° ≤ l ≤ 30°		 ?
Green Bank 350 MHz Drift Scan [46] 2007 GBT Green Bank 350 50 24.414 2048 81.92 140 ? ? Azimuth restrictions allowed access to declination ranges of -7°.72 < δ < 38°.43,
-20°.66 < δ < 38°.43,
for azimuths of 229° and 192° 		?
GBT350 (Spigot) [38] 2007 GBT Green Bank 350 50 24.414 2048 82 140 ? ? ? 10300
P-ALFA Survey (MOCK) [44,47,48] 2009-present Arecibo Arecibo 1375 322.6 336.042 960 65.5 120-300 7 ~5045 |b| ≤ 5°,
30° ≤ l ≤ 78°,
162° ≤ l ≤ 214°		 ?
GBNCC (GUPPI) [38,49] 2009-14 GBT Green Bank 350 100 24.414 4096 82 120 ? ~30000 δ > -40°,
(Sky visible to Green Bank)		 >13500
Southern HTRU (LOW) [50] 2010-12 Parkes Parkes 1352 340 390.625 870 64 4300 13 1230 |b| ≤ 3°.5,
-80° < l < 30°		 ~840
Southern HTRU (MED) [50,51] 2010-12 Parkes Parkes 1352 340 390.625 870 64 540 13 7312 |b| ≤ 15°,
-120° < l < 30°		 ~4500
Southern HTRU (HIGH) [50] 2010-12 Parkes Parkes 1352 340 390.625 870 64 270 13 34099 δ < +10° ?
A0327 (MOCK) [38] 2010 Arecibo Arecibo 327 57 55.664 1024 125 60 ? ? -1° < δ < 28°, excluding the region within 5° of the Galactic plane ?
LPPS [52] 2010 LOFAR LOFAR 142 6.8 12.143 560 655 3420 7 246 ? ?
LOTAS [52] 2010-11 LOFAR LOFAR 143 48 12.295 3904 1300 1020 19 206 ? ?
Northern HTRU (LOW) [53,54] 2010-14 EffelsbergEffelsberg 1360 240 585.9 410 54.61 1500 7 12485 |b| < 3°.5 ?
Northern HTRU (MED) [53,54] 2010-14 EffelsbergEffelsberg 1360 240 585.9 410 54.61 180 7 53581 |b| < 15° ?
Northern HTRU (HIGH) [53,54] 2010-14 EffelsbergEffelsberg 1360 240 585.9 410 54.61 90 7 152305 |b| > 15° ?
SPAN512 [55] 2012 NancyNançay 1486 512 500 1024 64 1080 2 5800 3.5° < |b| <5°,
74°≤ l <150°		 230
A0327 (PUPPI) [38] 2014 Arecibo Arecibo 327 69 24.503 2816 82 60 ? ? -1° < δ < 28°, excluding the region within 5° of the Galactic plane ?
LOTAAS [56,57,58] 2013 LOFAR LOFAR 135.248 94.9219 12.207 2592 491.52 3600 222 1950 All-Northern-sky survey 20625.5
SUPERB [59] 2014 Parkes Parkes 1374 340 332.031 1024 32 540 13 6644 -25° ≤ |b| ≤ 25° ?
GMRT High Resolution Southern Sky Survey (MID) [60] 2014 GMRT GMRT 322 32 15.625 2048 60 1200 1 682 5° < |b| < 20°,
-40° < δ < -54°		 1212
GMRT High Resolution Southern Sky Survey (HIGH) [60] 2014 GMRT GMRT 322 32 31.25 1024 30 720 1 911 |b| > 20°,
-40° < δ < -54°		 1620
FAST* [61] 2016 FAST FAST 1315 400 42.105 9500 100 600 19 ? ? ?
SKA** (Configuration A 3000 Dishes) [62] 2020-22 SKA SKA 1250 500 50 9500 64 1800 ? ? ? 35000
SKA** (Configuration B Aperture Array) [62] 2020-22 SKA SKA 650 300 50 9500 64 1800 ? ? ? 35000

* Projected.

** Simulation and best guess estimate.

Data Processing Information

Survey Survey Year Telescope Samples per second Bits DM Trials DM Trial lower limit DM Trial upper limit Candidates Notes
1st Cambridge Survey [1] 1967 IPS Array Interplanetary Scintillation Array ? ? ? ? ? ?
1st Molonglo Survey [1] 1968 Molonglo Molonglo 400 ? ? ? ? ? Square degree value obtained from [6]
Search at Low Galactic Latitudes [2,3] 1969 Jodrell Bank Lovell ? ? ? ? ? ? Survey year estimated from publication date, reports 2^14 samples.
Arecibo Survey 1 [4] 197? Arecibo Arecibo 5714.286 ? 64 0 1240 ? 0.5 sq degrees searched per hour. Pointings derived from Sq degrees searched & fact that a point in the sky remained in the beam for 3.3 minutes.
Jodrell Survey A [5] 1972 Jodrell Bank Lovell 50 ? ? 0 ~500 ? 1.5 sr searched
2nd Molonglo Survey [6] 1977 Molonglo Molonglo 200 4 ? 0 130/520/800 2500 8.4 sr searched. 105 days of total observations.
Green Bank Northern Hemisphere Survey [7,8] 1977 GBT Green Bank 479.042 ? 8 0 120 ?
Princeton-NRAO Survey [9] 1982-83 Arecibo Arecibo 1439.997 3 8 0 117 ?
Green Bank Short-period Survey [10] 1983 GBT Green Bank 16000 3 ? ? ? ?
Jodrell Survey B [11] 1983-84 Jodrell Bank Lovell 4000 3 ? 0 17000 ?
Arecibo Survey 2 (a) Phase II Princeton-NRAO [12] 1983 GBT Green Bank 16000 3 ? ? ? 5405 2x10^6 combinations of period and DM tried.
Arecibo Survey 2 (b) [12] 1984-85 Arecibo Arecibo 53333.333 3 ? ? ? ? 2x10^6 combinations of period and DM tried.
Survey for millisecond pulsars at Molonglo [13] 1985-86 Molonglo Molonglo 32000 ? 12 11/175 400/1750 ?
Jodrell Survey C (610 MHz) [14] 1985-87 Jodrell Bank Lovell 106666.667 1 39 32/64/85 373/746/995 ?
Jodrell Survey C (925 MHz) [14] 1985-87 Jodrell Bank Lovell 106666.667 1 39 114 1430 ?
Jodrell Survey C (928 MHz) [14] 1985-87 Jodrell Bank Lovell 106666.667 1 39 114 1430 ?
Jodrell Survey C (1420 MHz) [14] 1985-87 Jodrell Bank Lovell 106666.667 1 39 104 1770 ?
Parkes Globular Cluster Survey (20cm) [15,16] 1989-90 Parkes Parkes 266667/213333 1 100 0 309 ?
Parkes Globular Cluster Survey (50cm) [15,16] 1988-90 Parkes Parkes 426666.667 1 100 ? 309 ?
Arecibo Survey 3 [17] 198? Arecibo Arecibo 247761.916 4 256 0 507 ?
Parkes 20-cm Survey (System I) [18] 1988 Parkes Parkes 266666.667 1 100 0 2000 150000
Parkes 20-cm Survey (System II) [18] 1988 Parkes Parkes 53333.333 1 100 0 3000 150000
Arecibo 430 MHz Intermediate Galactic Latitude Survey [19] 1989-91 Arecibo Arecibo 252652.356 ? 163 0 200 ? 113 survey hours, each pointing was 2^17 samples
High Galactic Latitude Pulsar Survey of the Arecibo Sky (H1) [20] 1990 Arecibo Arecibo 252964.427 4 64 0 50 ? 91,000 points on sky observed during H1 to H5.
High Galactic Latitude Pulsar Survey of the Arecibo Sky (H2) [20] 1991 Arecibo Arecibo 128000 3 64 0 50 ?
High Galactic Latitude Pulsar Survey of the Arecibo Sky (H3) [20] 1992 Arecibo Arecibo 128000 3 64 0 50 ?
High Galactic Latitude Pulsar Survey of the Arecibo Sky (H4) [20] 1993 Arecibo Arecibo 128000 3 64 0 50 ?
High Galactic Latitude Pulsar Survey of the Arecibo Sky (H5) [21] 1994-95 Arecibo Arecibo 128000 3 64 0 50 ?
Arecibo Survey 4 Phase I [22] 1991 Arecibo Arecibo 247761.916 3 ? ? ? ? Assumed same as Phase II.
Arecibo Survey 4 Phase II [23] 1992 Arecibo Arecibo 256000 3 192 0 300 ?
Parkes Southern Pulsar Survey [24] 1991-93 Parkes Parkes 853333.333 4 738 0 777 40000 210 MB of data per observation
2nd Cambridge Survey [25] 1993-94 IPS Array Interplanetary Scintillation Array ? ? 640 0 102.55 ?
Jodrell Millisecond Pulsar Survey [26] 1993-94 Jodrell Bank Lovell 213333.333 1 182 0 770 ?
A search for pulsars in supernova remnants [64] 1994-96 Lovell Lovell 6400 1 90 0 995 ?
Green Bank Fast Pulsar Survey [27] 1994-96 GBT Green Bank 2000000 1 512 0 20 ? 4GB of data collected every 4.8 hours.
Parkes Multibeam Pulsar Survey [28,29] 1997 Parkes Parkes 384000 1 325 0 2203 8000000
Bologna submillisecond pulsar survey [30] 1998-99 Parkes Northern Cross 2000000 1 ? ? ? ?
A 1400-MHz pilot search for young pulsars [65] 1994-96 Effelsberg Effelsberg 8000 ? 36 0 10000 ?
The Effelsberg 1.4 GHz Medium Galactic Latitude Survey (EMLS) [66] 1994-2002 Effelsberg Effelsberg ? ? ? ? ? ?
Swinburne Intermediate-lat Pulsar Survey [31] 1998-99 Parkes Parkes 768000 1 375 0 562.5 > 200000 Four pointings gives roughly 1 degree so 4764/4 = 1191. 30GB candidate data even after filtering. 1.6TB total data set.
Parkes High-lat Multibeam Pulsar Survey [32] 2000-03 Parkes Parkes 768000 1 ? 0 1088 ?
Survey of The Magellanic Clouds [33] 2000-01 Parkes Parkes 96000 1 228 0 2200 ? Different DM searches: 102 trials between 0 and 277 cm-3 (1 ms time res), 42 between 0 and 550 cm-3 (2 ms time res), 42 between 0 and 1100 cm-3 (4 ms time res), 42 between 0 and 2200 cm-3 (8 ms time res).
1.4 GHz Arecibo Survey (DM < 100) [34] 2001-02 Arecibo Arecibo 4000000 16 ? ? ? ? 8MB-1 or 30GB per hour, 4 TB in total
1.4 GHz Arecibo Survey (DM > 100) [34] 2001-02 Arecibo Arecibo 4000000 16 ? ? ? ? Same as 1.4 GHz Arecibo Survey (DM < 100).
Large Area Survey for Radio Pulsars [35] 2001-02 Parkes Parkes 768000 1 375 0 562.5 9307584 2.4TB of data in total.
EGRET 56 Pulsar Survey [36] 2002-03 Parkes Parkes 768000 1 150 0 542 ? 200 MB of data per beam and 600GB in total.
EGRET Error Box Survey [37] 2003 Arecibo Arecibo 4096000 ? 392 0 491.2 ?
A0327 Pilot [38] 2003 Arecibo Arecibo 2000000 16 (4 scaled) 6358 0 1000 ?
The Perseus Arm Pulsar Survey [39] 2004-09 Parkes Parkes 768000 1 325/183 0 1088/1500 ? Two pipelines, HTRU and PMFind so different DM trial parameters.
The 8gr8 Cygnus Survey [40,41] 2004-05 Westerbork Westerbork 625000 ? 488 0 340 ?
Parkes Deep Northern Galactic Plane Survey [42] 2004-05 Parkes Parkes 768000 1 496 1.1 4931 ?
P-ALFA Survey (intial) (WAPP) [43,44] 2004 Arecibo Arecibo 4000000 16 96 0 980 See P-Alfa Mock 0.3TB per hour.
P-ALFA Survey (anticipated) (WAPP) [43,44] 2004-10 Arecibo Arecibo 16000000 16 96/1272 0 980/1000 See P-ALFA Survey (MOCK). 0.3TB of data per hour. 2 byte integers stored at 64 microsecond intervals. Different DM trial values for periodicity search/single pulse search (see Deneva et al.).
6.5 Ghz Multibeam Pulsar Survey [45] 2006-07 Parkes Parkes 1536000 1 ~286 0 2000 >3500000 5TB of data collected. 170 candidates per beam = over 3.5 million for the survey.
Green Bank 350 MHz Drift Scan [46] 2007 GBT Green Bank 25000000 16 ? ? ? ? 1491 hours of data taken.
GBT350 (Spigot) [38] 2007 GBT Green Bank 24975609.756 ? ? ? ? ? Square degrees/survey year details found here.
P-ALFA Survey (MOCK) [44,47,48] 2009-present Arecibo Arecibo 14656488.550 16 5016 0 2038 >5000000 16-bit data reduced to 4 for data storage requirements. The ~5045 pointings are for the MOCK spectrometer between 2009-12 in the outer galaxy. Candidates numbers obtained here.
GBNCC (GUPPI) [38,49] 2009-14 GBT Green Bank 49951219.512 ? 17352/26532 0 500/3000 >1200000 Dispersion trials and range increased due to Thornton burst discovery, thus two sets of DM values.
Southern HTRU (LOW) [50] 2010-12 Parkes Parkes 13593750 8 ? ? ? 1600000 16GB of data per beam. 1PB data total.
Southern HTRU (MED) [50,51] 2010-12 Parkes Parkes 13593750 8 1436 0 2000 9509600 2 GB of data per beam.
Southern HTRU (HIGH) [50] 2010-12 Parkes Parkes 13593750 8 8000 0 800 44328700 1GB of data per beam.
A0327 (MOCK) [38] 2010 Arecibo Arecibo 8192000 ? 6358 0 1000 ?
LPPS [52] 2010 LOFAR LOFAR 854961.832 8 3487 0 3000 ?
LOTAS [52] 2010-11 LOFAR LOFAR 3003076.923 8 16845/18100 0 1000 ?
Northern HTRU (LOW) [53,54] 2010-14 EffelsbergEffelsberg 7507782.457 8 3240/406 0 978/3000 >80000000 13.4 GB of data per beam, ~38MBs-1. 5PB data total. Quick search pipeline searches 406 trial DM's up to 3000.
Northern HTRU (MED) [53,54] 2010-14 EffelsbergEffelsberg 7507782.457 8 3240/406 0 978/3000 >80000000 1.6 GB of data per beam. Quick search pipeline searches high DM range up to 3000.
Northern HTRU (HIGH) [53,54] 2010-14 EffelsbergEffelsberg 7507782.457 8 3240/406 0 978/3000 >80000000 0.8 GB of data per beam. Quick search pipeline searches high DM range up to 3000.
SPAN512 [55] 2012 NancyNançay 16000000 4 ? ? 1800 ? 50TB data in total.
A0327 (PUPPI) [38] 2014 Arecibo Arecibo 34341463.414 ? 6358 0 1000 ?
LOTAAS [56,57,58] 2013 LOFAR LOFAR 5273437.5 8 7000 0 500 39000000 Each 1-hour pointing produces 16 TB of raw data. Candidate numbers obtained via private communication.
SUPERB [59] 2014 Parkes Parkes 32000000 8 1448 0 400 ?
GMRT High Resolution Southern Sky Survey (MID) [60] 2014 GMRT GMRT 34133333.333 ? 6000 0.01 500/2000 ? 76GB of data per beam.
GMRT High Resolution Southern Sky Survey (HIGH) [60] 2014 GMRT GMRT 34133333.333 ? 6000 0.01 500/2000 ? 45GB of data per beam.
FAST* [61] 2016 FAST FAST 95000000 2 ? ? ? ? Simulation. For the initial 19-beam receiver, the data rate is just under 0.5 GB per second. For 100 beams it is about 2.4 GB per second.
SKA** (Configuration A 3000 Dishes) [62] 2020-22 SKA SKA 148437500 2 ? ? ? ?
SKA** (Configuration B Aperture Array) [62] 2020-22 SKA SKA 148437500 2 ? ? ? ?

* Projected.

** Simulation and best guess estimate.

Created by Rob Lyon, last updated March 2016.

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