2024-01-25 14:29:39
lecturer:
Dotan Gazit – Weizmann Institute of Science.
Summary:
Pulsars are neutron stars that radiate in our direction in a cyclical manner, thus constituting cosmic clocks. The property of their periodicity makes it possible to measure many properties that are not accessible in ordinary stars, such as their age, the magnetic field near them, the binary orbit they are in and even to challenge the theory of general relativity.
This wealth of accessible information leads to difficulty in finding them which has limited the search for them using the Fermi Space Telescope. In the lecture I will explain how, under the guidance of Dr. Barak Zakai, I search for such pulsars.
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