Arecibo Pulsar Survey Using ALFA. III. Precursor Survey and Population Synthesis

J. K. Swiggum, D. R. Lorimer, M. A. McLaughlin +33

The Pulsar Arecibo L-band Feed Array (PALFA) Survey uses the ALFA 7-beam receiver to search both inner and outer Galactic sectors visible from Arecibo ($32^{\circ}\lesssim \ell \le…