Pulsar physics and the application of pulsar timing
Beijing, May 2011
Main aims
• Develop international collaboration• Provide an introduction to pulsar astronomy• Introduce new methods for processing pulsars
What have we covered? Pulsars?
Quarks
Gravitational wavesGravitational waves
Atomic time standards
Rotation of EarthRotation of EarthMicro-lensingMicro-lensing
Planetary massesPlanetary masses
SupernovaeSupernovae
Supermassive black holesSupermassive black holes
X-ray binaries
Galactic magnetic fields
Magnetars
Interstellar plasmaInterstellar plasma
Superfluidity
Solar Wind
Wind nebulaeWind nebulae
What telescopes?
Fermi
ParkesParkes
Effelsberg
PushchinoPushchino
KalyazinKalyazin
Xinjiang Observatory
GreenBank Telescope
EffelsbergEffelsberg
Wilcox Solar ObservatoryWilcox Solar Observatory
FASTFAST
ChandraChandra
The tutorials• Listened to amazing science talks! • Data publically available from the Parkes data archive (huge
amount of research quality data – all can be downloaded) – Jonathan Khoo’s tutorial (referee’s comments on publication received today – only very minor changes required – paper should be on astro-ph within 1 week)
• For search mode data – can process using standard pulsar search software – Mike Keith’s tutorial
• For known-pulsar observations – can process using PSRCHIVE – Willem van Straten’s tutorial
• Can process arrival times using using TEMPO2 – 饺子’ s tutorial
Lots of people to thank …
• The SOC:• R.N. Manchester (CSIRO Astronomy and Space
Science)• JinLin Han (NAO)• Na Wang (UAO)• HaiTao Wu (NTSC)• Guojun Qiao (PKU)
Lots of people to thank …
• The LOC:• Ding Chen (NTSC,Chair)• Renxin Xu (PKU)• Chen Wang (NAO) • Yuanjie Du (NAO)• Chengshi Zhao (NTSC)• Thanks to all people who ran around with the
microphone, created the webpage, ran the registration, picked up international guests at the airport, helped with lunch, chaired sessions, played ping-pong …
International guests
• R. Manchester, J. Khoo, D. Yardley (Australia)• W. Coles (USA)• V. Potapov, O. Malov (Russia)
• Mike Keith, Paul Demorest (x2), David Champion and Willem van Straten
JinLin Han
• Thanks for all your work:• Organising the meeting• Organising the accommodation• Organising the food• Sending out invitation letters/emails• Running skype• Giving a talk• …
Chen Ding
• Providing the idea for the meeting• Organising the talks• Funding the meeting• Supporting many international guests
(including myself)• Giving a talk!• Giving the best gifts ever received in a pulsar
conference – ping-pong bats!!
Two reasons for working in China …
• (1) The pulsar community • and
Say ni hao to “Du Sha” tonight at the dinner!