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Team Taylor: John, Lori, Casey, Tonia, Joey, Elizabeth, and Lazar

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

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

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