ARCC@UWM: The Arecibo Remote Command Center at the University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee

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Jan 2011

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2011aas...21713908s&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #217, #139.08; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 43, 2011

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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A low frequency stochastic background of gravitational waves could be detected by pulsar timing experiments in the next five to ten years. Increasing the number of time of arrival data sets available for gravitational wave searches will improve the sensitivity of a pulsar based gravitational wave detector. To achieve this goal, a group of faculty, staff, postdoctoral researchers, and a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee are participating in a broad effort to increase the number of known stable pulsars collecting and analyzing the pulsar Arecibo L-band Feed Array (P-ALFA) survey data, and the Green Bank Northern Celestial Cap survey data. We have followed the pioneering model started at the University of Texas-Brownsville (UTB) to involve undergraduate and high school students in this research. In close collaboration with the group at UTB we have engaged two local high school teachers, several high school students, and about 15 UWM undergraduates in remotely commanding and observing using the Arecibo radio telescope and the Green Bank telescope, in searches in the collected data for new candidate pulsars, and follow-up observations of of potential pulsar candidates. In addition, the group is using its expertise in LIGO data analysis to improve gravitational wave searches in pulsar timing data.

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