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