first pulsar, was Are the SETI kooks still at it?
Brian Tung wrote:
Martin Brown wrote:
We would never have discovered pulsars without the advent of large
phase switched aerial arrays. A signal trace of regular pulses from the
Crab nebula pulsar that was initially labelled LGM after it was shown
to be keeping sidereal time .....
BTW, the pulsar Bell discovered was in Vulpecula, not Taurus.
Ooops! Yes - so it was.
30Hz would not have shown up at all on a chart recorder.
Cheers,
Martin Brown
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