th3-black-jackal/pulsars_detection

"Pulsars are a rare type of Neutron star that produce radio emission detectable here on Earth. As pulsars rotate, their emission beam sweeps across the sky, and when this crosses our line of sight, produces a detectable pattern of broadband radio emission. As pulsars rotate rapidly, this pattern repeats periodically. Thus pulsar search involves looking for periodic radio signals with large radio telescopes. Each pulsar produces a slightly different emission pattern, which varies slightly with each rotation. Thus a potential signal detection known as a 'candidate', is averaged over many rotations of the pulsar, as determined by the length of an observation. In the absence of additional info, each candidate could potentially describe a real pulsar. However in practice almost all detections arecaused by radio frequency interference (RFI) and noise, making legitimate signals hard to find." By Dr Robert Lyon

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