Minority Student Scientists Searching for Pulsars

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Dec 2007

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2007aas...211.0701r&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #211, #07.01; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 39, p.739

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Modern astronomy offers the means to excite students about science. At the Arecibo Remote Command Center (ARCC) part of University of Texas at Brownsville's Center for Gravitational Wave Astronomy (CGWA), high school and undergraduate students experience what it is like to be a scientist by assisting in the international effort to identify pulsars as part of the P-ALFA survey. By participating in the ARCC, students start their contribution to the P-ALFA project by remotely controlling the Arecibo telescope for data collection. Then, using a web-based software instrument developed by researchers at the CGWA, students analyze the data to identify potential pulsar candidates. These early career students have become a vital part of this data analysis pipeline. Here we discuss this implementation as a case study of authentic research experiences for minority students.

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