A search for extragalactic pulsars in the Local Group galaxies IC 10 and
  Barnard's Galaxy
  As of today, more than 2500 pulsars have been found, nearly all in the Milky
Way, with the exception of ~28 pulsars in the Small and Large Magellanic
Clouds. However, there have been few published attempts to search for pulsars
deeper in our Galactic neighborhood. Two of the more promising Local Group
galaxies are IC 10 and NGC 6822 (also known as Barnard's Galaxy) due to their
relatively high star formation rate and their proximity to our galaxy. IC 10 in
particular, holds promise as it is the closest starburst galaxy to us and
harbors an unusually high number of Wolf-Rayet stars, implying the presence of
many neutron stars. We observed IC 10 and NGC 6822 at 820 MHz with the Green
Bank Telescope for ~15 and 5 hours respectively, and put a strong upper limit
of 0.1 mJy on pulsars in either of the two galaxies. We also performed single
pulse searches of both galaxies with no firm detections.
