Nature<\/em>.<\/p>\nThe Arecibo Observatory, a National Science Foundation facility, is managed through a collaboration between UCF, Universidad Metropolitana in San Juan, and Yang Enterprises Inc. in Oviedo, FL. Arecibo\u2019s instrumentation gives hundreds of international scientists the opportunity to make observations and conduct research not easily done through other means.<\/p>\n
\u201cArecibo continues to be one of the most important telescopes to our research, due to its incredible sensitivity,\u201d Main says.<\/p>\n
Main, a Ph.D. astronomy student in the Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics and the Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics at the 海角直播 of Toronto, says Arecibo and the pulsar\u2019s location gave the team a unique opportunity.<\/p>\n
The observation was made possible by the rare geometry and characteristics of a stellar binary system in which a brown dwarf star and a pulsating neutron star, or pulsar, orbit each other. Gas, or plasma, from the brown dwarf acts like a lens, focusing radiation from the emission sites, Main described in a press release.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are essentially looking at the pulsar through a naturally occurring magnifying glass, which allows us to see the two regions separately,\u201d Main says. \u201cThe biggest advantage to Arecibo is its incredible sensitivity compared to other radio telescopes\u00a0since it has much more collecting area. Finding the effect of highly magnified pulses was only possible in Arecibo, since we already had the sensitivity to detect every pulse from this pulsar.\u201d<\/p>\n
Read more about the scientific findings.<\/a><\/p>\nMain is already working on furthering his findings with new observation times at Arecibo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Arecibo Observatory, managed by UCF, recently helped provide unprecedented details of a pulsar 6,500 light years from Earth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":82935,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"lazy_load_responsive_images_disabled":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[23,24],"tags":[16967,364,14916],"tu_author":[],"class_list":["post-82934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research","category-science-technology","tag-arecibo-observatory","tag-astronomy","tag-research"],"yoast_head":"\n
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