评述了射电脉冲星搜寻及观测研究的巨大贡献和重要意义，分析了影响脉冲星搜寻工作的几个关 键因素(如灵敏度、色散、观测频率及设备等)，着重介绍和分析了自发现脉冲星(特别是发现第一 颗毫秒脉冲星)以来所进行的卓有成效的脉冲星搜寻工作(包括脉冲星的早期搜寻、毫秒脉冲星的初 期搜寻、高银纬脉冲星搜寻、定向搜寻以及进一步的广域深空搜寻等)的情况、结果、意义和进展。
The great contribution and important significance of the radio pulsar search as well as related observations and studies are reviewed, some key factors in the pulsar search, such as sensitivity, dispersion effect, observing frequency and instrumentation, are analyzed, and the situation, achievement, significance and progress on the successful pulsar search conducted after the discovery of pulsars, especially after the discovery of the first millisecond-pulsar, including the high-latitude- pulsar search, the directed millisecond-pulsar search and the deep wide-range search, are mainly introduced and analyzed in this paper.