We present the discovery of eight new radio pulsars located in the Large Magellanic Cloud ( LMC ) .
Five of these pulsars were found from reprocessing the Parkes Multibeam Survey of the Magellanic Clouds , while the remaining three were from an ongoing new survey at Parkes with a high resolution data acquisition system .
It is possible that these pulsars were missed in the earlier processing due to radio frequency interference , visual judgment , or the large number of candidates that must be analysed .
One of these new pulsars has a dispersion measure of 273 pc cm ^ { -3 } , almost twice the highest previously known value , making it possibly the most distant LMC pulsar .
In addition , we present the null result of a radio pulse search of an X-ray point source located in SNR J0047.2 - 7308 in the Small Magellanic Cloud ( SMC ) .
Although no millisecond pulsars have been found , these discoveries have increased the known rotation powered pulsar population in the LMC by more than 50 \% .
Using the current sample of LMC pulsars , we used a Bayesian analysis to constrain the number of potentially observable pulsars in the LMC to within a 95 % credible interval of 57000 ^ { +70000 } _ { -30000 } .
The new survey at Parkes is \sim 20 % complete and it is expected to yield at most six millisecond pulsars in the LMC and SMC .
Although it is very sensitive to short period pulsars , this new survey provides only a marginal increase in sensitivity to long periods .
The limiting luminosity for this survey is 125 mJy kpc ^ { 2 } for the LMC which covers the upper 10 % of all known radio pulsars .
The luminosity function for normal pulsars in the LMC is consistent with their counterparts in the Galactic disk .
The maximum 1400 MHz radio luminosity for LMC pulsars is \sim 1000 mJy kpc ^ { 2 } .