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 regular intervals, giving them a “pulsing” look . Neutron Stars are the stellar remnants of stars massive enough to collapse due to their own gravity however were not massive enough to collapse into a blackhole. Instead what is left is a ball of the most dense substance in the universe: Neutronium. Neutronium is made up of only neutrons. Neutron stars hold up against gravity using Neutron degeneracy pressure.
This data sheet is what we acquired after making our observations using pulsar Mode. Pulsar mode is a programmed technique that calculates a light curve, the period and does the period folding automatically. The most important information we obtain from this is the period of the pulsar, which is how long it takes to make one revolution. On our case this Pulsar takes 1158 ms which is pretty average.