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Team Taylor: John, Lori, Casey, Tonia, Joey, Elizabeth, and Lazar
Pulsar Search Collaboratory Project
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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
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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…
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What we found: A lot of… RFI… And a bit more RFI With… Some noise
And finally… Some interference
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The Plots Most of the plots looked like… RFI RFI
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After many, many plots A few pulsars popped up (We got excited...)
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The Pulsars In all, we found 6 pulsars
3 of them were already in the ATNF database The other 3 were unidentified pulsars
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KC's Unidentified Pulsar
Broadband
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Tonia's Space Noise Narrow Band
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Liz's Pulsar
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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.
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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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