Team Unlocks New Insights on Pulsar Signals PRESS RELEASE DATE November 26, 2024 CONTACT Rebecca McDonald Director of Communications SETI Institute rmcdonald@SETI.org 650-960-4526 November 26, 2024, Mountain View, CA – Dr. Sofia Sheikh from the SETI ONLINE...
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Team Unlocks New Insights on Pulsar Signals PRESS RELEASE DATE November 26, 2024 CONTACT Rebecca McDonald Director of Communications SETI Institute rmcdonald@SETI.org 650-960-4526 November 26, 2024, Mountain View, CA – Dr. Sofia Sheikh from the SETI ONLINE Institute led a study that sheds new light on how pulsar signals—the spinning Press release: remnants of massive stars—distort as they travel through space. This study, https://bit.ly/3Z4z4Tl published in The Astrophysical Journal, was performed by a multi-year cohort of undergraduate researchers in the Penn State branch of the Pulsar Search Collaboratory student club. Maura McLaughlin, Chair, Eberly Distinguished Professor of Physics and Astronomy, West Virginia University, created the Pulsar Search Collaboratory to engage high schoolers and undergraduates in pulsar science, and she helped facilitate access to the data used in this study. Using archival data from the Arecibo Observatory, the student team found patterns that show how
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