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The PULSE@Parkes Project: a New Observing Technique for Long-Term Pulsar Monitoring

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 March 2013

G. Hobbs ,
R. Hollow ,
D. Champion ,
J. Khoo ,
D. Yardley ,
M. Carr ,
M. Keith ,
F. Jenet ,
S. Amy  and
M. Burgay
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G. Hobbs
Affiliation:
Australia Telescope National Facility, CSIRO, P.O. Box 76, Epping, NSW 1710
R. Hollow
Affiliation:
Australia Telescope National Facility, CSIRO, P.O. Box 76, Epping, NSW 1710
D. Champion
Affiliation:
Australia Telescope National Facility, CSIRO, P.O. Box 76, Epping, NSW 1710
J. Khoo
Affiliation:
Australia Telescope National Facility, CSIRO, P.O. Box 76, Epping, NSW 1710
D. Yardley
Affiliation:
Australia Telescope National Facility, CSIRO, P.O. Box 76, Epping, NSW 1710 Sydney Institute for Astronomy (SIfA), School of Physics, The University of Sydney, NSW 2006
M. Carr
Affiliation:
Australia Telescope National Facility, CSIRO, P.O. Box 76, Epping, NSW 1710
M. Keith
Affiliation:
Australia Telescope National Facility, CSIRO, P.O. Box 76, Epping, NSW 1710
F. Jenet
Affiliation:
Center for Gravitational Wave Astronomy, University of Texas at Brownsville, 80 Fort Brown, Brownsville, TX 78520, USA
S. Amy
Affiliation:
Australia Telescope National Facility, CSIRO, P.O. Box 76, Epping, NSW 1710
M. Burgay
Affiliation:
Università di Cagliari, Dipartimento di Fisica, SP Monserrato-Sestu km 0.7, 09042 Monserrato (CA), Italy
S. Burke-Spolaor
Affiliation:
Australia Telescope National Facility, CSIRO, P.O. Box 76, Epping, NSW 1710 Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, Swinburne University of Technology, PO Box 218, Hawthorn, Vic 3122
J. Chapman
Affiliation:
Australia Telescope National Facility, CSIRO, P.O. Box 76, Epping, NSW 1710
L. Danaia
Affiliation:
Charles Sturt University, Panorama Avenue, Bathurst, NSW 2795
B. Homewood
Affiliation:
Braemar College, Mt Macedon Road, Woodend, Vic 3442
A. Kovacevic
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109
M. Mao
Affiliation:
Australia Telescope National Facility, CSIRO, P.O. Box 76, Epping, NSW 1710 Anglo-Australian Observatory, PO Box 296, Epping, NSW 1710 School of Mathematics and Physics, University of Tasmania, Private Bag 37, Hobart, Tas 7001
D. McKinnon
Affiliation:
Charles Sturt University, Panorama Avenue, Bathurst, NSW 2795
M. Mulcahy
Affiliation:
Australia Telescope National Facility, CSIRO, P.O. Box 76, Epping, NSW 1710
S. Oslowski
Affiliation:
Australia Telescope National Facility, CSIRO, P.O. Box 76, Epping, NSW 1710 Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, Swinburne University of Technology, PO Box 218, Hawthorn, Vic 3122
W. van Straten
Affiliation:
Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, Swinburne University of Technology, PO Box 218, Hawthorn, Vic 3122
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The PULSE@Parkes project has been designed to monitor the rotation of radio pulsars over time spans of days to years. The observations are obtained using the Parkes 64-m and 12-m radio telescopes by Australian and international high school students. These students learn the basis of radio astronomy and undertake small projects with their observations. The data are fully calibrated and obtained with the state-of-the-art pulsar hardware available at Parkes. The final data sets are archived and are currently being used to carry out studies of 1) pulsar glitches, 2) timing noise, 3) pulse profile stability over long time scales and 4) the extreme nulling phenomenon. The data are also included in other projects such as gamma-ray observatory support and for the Parkes Pulsar Timing Array project. In this paper we describe the current status of the project and present the first scientific results from the Parkes 12-m radio telescope. We emphasise that this project offers a straightforward means to enthuse high school students and the general public about radio astronomy while obtaining scientifically valuable data sets.

Keywords

pulsars: general
Type
Research Article
Information
Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia , Volume 26 , Issue 4 , 2009 , pp. 468 - 475
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of Australia 2009

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