We report the first rotation powered pulsars discovered in the Small Magellanic Cloud ( SMC ) in more than a decade .
PSR J0043–73 and PSR J0052–72 were discovered during a Parkes Multi-Beam ( PMB ) survey of MCSNR J0127-7332 , and five new , optically selected , supernova remnant ( SNR ) candidates identified by the XMM Newton survey .
In addition to the candidates , we adjusted the PMB rotation to include an additional nine SNRs and pulsar wind nebulae .
We searched for young pulsars ( 1 – 200 ms ) employing a Fourier analysis with PRESTO , as well as a search for longer period pulsars ( 200 ms – 360 s ) with a fast folding algorithm .
Our targeted survey had a limiting flux density of 0.039 mJy for periods greater than 50 ms .
Although not the main target of this search it was also sensitive to millisecond pulsars .
PSR J0043–73 has a period and dispersion measure of 937.42937 ( 26 ) ms and 115.1 ( 3.4 ) pc cm -3 respectively , and PSR J0052–72 has a period of 191.444328 ( 46 ) ms and a DM of 158.6 ( 1.6 ) pc cm -3 .