Pulsar Astronomy: An Out-of-this-World Program
Physics Professors Duncan Lorimer and Maura McLaughlin helped to discover one of the holy grails of radio astronomy - a double pulsar. Working with senior David Narkevic, they also detected a new astronomical phenomenon: a powerful, short-lived burst of radio waves. Most recently, Dr. McLaughlin earned a prestigious Sloan Research Fellowship and became the first to detect X-ray pulsations from a strange kind of neutron star known as a rotating radio transient (RRAT). "WVU is in an ideal position to become a world leader in pulsar astronomy," says Dr. Lorimer.
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January 22 & February 22, 2008
