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Rapidly Rotating Neutron Stars (Pulsars) Joe Corrigan and Brandon Christmas
Pulsar (psr 1133 16) Brandon Christmas, Joe Corrigan Hampden Sydney College In Module 5B we observed pulsars. Pulsars are category neutron stars that spin severely rapidly causing them to have astrophysical jets that sweep across our line of site at … Continue reading
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Module 5A – Group 4 – Joshua Ferreira, John Glassner, & Jeremy Wehking
In this module, we first took pictures of the star-death region, Crab (M1, Tau A), which is a supernova remnant, using optical imaging. We did this by using Skynet and the Hampden-Sydney College telescope. We used the filters gprime, rprime, … Continue reading
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Module 5B
PSR_0329_54 Sonification This is the sonification of PSR_0329_54. This is the second hardest pulsar that was on the list. The hardest one wasn’t on there so we went with this one. This is a graph showing the period folding … Continue reading
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Module 5A: Star Death Imaging
Module 5A: Star Death Imaging Matthew Toman, Abram Rodriguez, Joseph Corrigan This is an optical image of the planetary nebula NGC 5189. It was taken with the Prompt 5 telescope and G prime, I prime, R prime filters, as well … Continue reading
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