A SEARCH FOR FAST PULSARS ALONG THE GALACTIC PLANE

We present results from a survey for fast pulsars at the Arecibo Obser vatory. Approximately 260 deg(2) of sky were searched, primarily at Ga lactic latitude \b\ < 8 degrees. Signals were sampled at intervals of 517 mu s, allowing for the possibility of detecting pulsars with perio ds as short as 1 ms or less. Sensitivity varied as a function of sky p osition. In a typical direction, long-period pulsars with flux densiti es of order 0.9 mJy at 430 MHz could be detected, although sensitivity to the fastest pulsars was somewhat curtailed. Sixty-one pulsars were detected, 24 of which were previously unknown. Four of the pulsars, t wo newly discovered, have millisecond periods.