The Pulsar Search Collaboratory

Abstract

The Pulsar Search Collaboratory [PSC, NSF #0737641] is a joint project between the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) and West Virginia University (WVU) designed to interest high school students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics [STEM] related career paths by helping them to conduct authentic scientific research. The 3- year PSC program, which began in summer 2008, teaches students to analyze astronomical radio data acquired with the 100-m Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope for the purpose of discovering new pulsars. We present the results of the first complete year of the PSC, which includes two astronomical discoveries.

18 pages, 7 figures

References in corpus (4)

• Transient radio bursts from rotating neutron stars
• Galaxy Zoo: The properties of merging galaxies in the nearby Universe - local environments, colours, masses, star-formation rates and AGN activity
• Galaxy Zoo: the fraction of merging galaxies in the SDSS and their morphologies
• The PULSE@Parkes project: A new observing technique for long-term pulsar monitoring

Cited by in corpus (13)

• Fifty Years of Pulsar Candidate Selection: From simple filters to a new principled real-time classification approach
• The Green Bank Telescope 350 MHz Drift-scan Survey II: Data Analysis and the Timing of 10 New Pulsars, Including a Relativistic Binary
• The Green Bank Telescope 350 MHz Drift-scan Survey I: Survey Observations and the Discovery of 13 Pulsars
• The High Time Resolution Universe Survey VI: An Artificial Neural Network and Timing of 75 Pulsars
• PSR J1930-1852: a pulsar in the widest known orbit around another neutron star
• Gravitational wave research using pulsar timing arrays
• The Pulsar Search Collaboratory: Discovery and Timing of Five New Pulsars
• The Pulsar Search Collaboratory: Current Status and Future Prospects
• The Pulsar Search Collaboratory: Expanding Nationwide
• The Pulsar Science Collaboratory: Multi-Epoch Scintillation Studies of Pulsars
• On-the-Fly Mapping of New Pulsars
• The hunt for new pulsars with the Green Bank Telescope
• Radio Searches for Pulsars and Short-Duration Transients