Team Taylor:
John, Lori, Casey, Tonia, Joey, Elizabeth, and
Lazar
Pulsars
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Pulsars are fast spinning neutron stars
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They are formed from large stars at the
end of their lives in a super nova
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They emit radio waves in beams from their
poles
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,
30 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
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Most of the plots looked like…
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After many, many plots
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A few pulsars popped up
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(We got excited...)
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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Conclusion:
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94% of all the Pulsar data sheets were RFI
and/or background noise. There were still
a couple possible pulsars that we found.
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Of the possible Candidate Pulsars, there
were 3 that were identified as already
existing pulsars, while there were also 3
that were unidentified.
Thanks to…
N.S.F.
NRAO
GBT
Sue Ann Heatherly
Astronomers
Science teachers
Duncan Lorimer & Maura McLaughlin
John & Lori