"Hittin' the Pulsar Jackpot in Terzan 5 with the GBT"
Scott Ransom (NRAO) - Oct. 6 Joint RAL seminar at 12:00 noon
Terzan 5 is a dense globular cluster near the Galactic center that
has been predicted for >15 years to contain tens or even hundreds
of millisecond pulsars (MSPs). But deep searches with the Parkes
and Lovell telescopes had only managed to uncover 3 pulsars
over the same period of time. This July, a single observation
at S-band with the Green Bank Telescope significantly changed all
that with the discovery of more than a dozen new MSPs, most of which
are in binary systems. In this talk I'll discuss the reasons
behind the project, the observation itself, and some of the
implications of the new discoveries.
The seminar will be held in 544 Campbell Hall.
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