Eight New Radio Pulsars in the Large Magellanic Cloud

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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.