The Arecibo Remote Command Center: Inspiring the Next Generation of Astrophysicists

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Dec 2007

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American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #211, #05.17; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 39, p.735

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At the Center for Gravitational Wave Astronomy at the University of Texas-Brownsville (UTB) we have developed the first Arecibo Remote Command Center (ARCC). The ARCC is a virtual control room where researchers and students from the high school level and higher have real time control of the world's largest single dish radio telescope at the Arecibo observatory. Here we give an overview of the project and the progress made over the past year. Several notable accomplishments include 1) the direct involvement of high school students in the PALFA pulsar search project at the Arecibo Observatory; 2) the first remote observations conducted with the Parkes Observatory in New South Wales, Australia; 3) development of a web-based pulsar search interface which students have used to identify potential pulsar candidates; 4) completion of the ARCC room facility at the UTB campus, a state of the art professionally designed room that looks like the bridge of a starship; 5) building the second ARCC project at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (ARCC@UWM).

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