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1 Team Taylor: John, Lori, Casey, Tonia, Joey, Elizabeth, and Lazar
Pulsar Search Collaboratory Project

2 Pulsars Pulsars are fast spinning neutron stars
They are formed from large stars at the end of their lives in a super nova They emit radio waves in beams from their poles

3 130 terabytes of data Astronomers surveyed 30% of the sky
After 3 days at Green Bank, we started finding new pulsars Our team was given 10 data sets, plots each We started analyzing our data and…

4 What we found: A lot of… RFI… And a bit more RFI With… Some noise
And finally… Some interference

5 The Plots Most of the plots looked like… RFI RFI

6 After many, many plots A few pulsars popped up (We got excited...)

7 The Pulsars In all, we found 6 pulsars
3 of them were already in the ATNF database The other 3 were unidentified pulsars

8 KC's Unidentified Pulsar
Broadband

9 Tonia's Space Noise Narrow Band

10 Liz's Pulsar

11 Conclusion: 94% of all the Pulsar data sheets were RFI and/or background noise. There were still a couple possible pulsars that we found. Of the possible Candidate Pulsars, there were 3 that were identified as already existing pulsars, while there were also 3 that were unidentified.

12 Duncan Lorimer & Maura McLaughlin
Thanks to… N.S.F. NRAO GBT Sue Ann Heatherly Astronomers Science teachers Duncan Lorimer & Maura McLaughlin John & Lori


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