PULSE@Parkes Links
- PULSE@Parkes documents & files
- Radio Astronomy
- Pulsars
- Applets, Activities and Software
- Media Articles about PULSE@Parkes
PULSE@Parkes documents and files
- Online Application for an Observing Slot for a School
- PULSE@Parkes pulsars for observation (.xls) Excel spreadsheet
- DM_Fit_Template (.xls) Excel spreadsheet
Radioastronomy
- Basics of Radio Astronomy is a NASA site where you can download a free introductory text book on radio astronomy.
- What is Radio Astronomy? This set of pages is from NRAO, the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, the American equivalent of Australia Telescope National Facility. It has some effective animations that show the different ways by which radio waves are produced plus answers to frequently asked questions.
Pulsars
- Cambridge Physics: Discovery of Pulsars is an excellent site that explains how pulsars were discovered in 1967. It includes animations.
- ATNF Pulsar Group
- ATNF Pulsar Catalog provides data on all known pulsars via a searchable interface.
- Center for Gravitational Wave Astronomy at the University of Texas at Brownsville.
- ATNF Pulsar Group
- NRAO GBT and UWV Pulsar Seach Collaboratory
Other Observations/Missions
- Official NASA Fermi website.
- Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope Education and Public Outreach, site at Sonoma State University, includes all the Fermi Education and Public Outreach material.
- Stellarium is an excellent open-source free sky simulator and planetarium program. It is available for Windows PCs, Mac OSX and Linux machines.
- Project CLEA have a (Windows only) free program Radio Astronomy of Pulsars that allows you to simulate radio observations of pulsars and the use of a radio telescope. The student manual has a structured sequence of activities.
- Google Sky. This is the web-based version. It currently has optical, infra-red. X-ray and Gamma ray overlays for some regions of the sky.
- Exploring to the Beat of Pulsars, Universe Today, 2 Dec 2009.
- Cardiff students take control..., Cardiff University, 3 Dec 2009.
- PULSEatParkes on twitter
- Students tweet telescope takeover, Computerworld, 12 Aug 2009.
- Aussie students use Twitter to report their telescope takover, The Tech Herald, 12 Aug 2009.
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