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NSF RUI awarded to Joel Weisberg

September 9, 2013 at 11:10 am
By Dee Menning, CFR


Pulsars are the cores of dead stars, about the size of a city and containing more mass than the Sun, weighing a billion tons per teaspoonful, that spin at rates up to hundreds of times per second. In addition to studying pulsars own fascinating properties, the team will use pulsars to study other astronomical phenomena and theories.


[Pictures, right: Weisberg's Carleton-student faculty team at the largest radiotelescope in the southern hemisphere, the Parkes (Australia) 64-meter dish]