Thursday July 21
- FRB Lecture:
- Fast Radio Bursts which took a bunch of turns in science lots of people doubted what they were for a while, now stuff is starting to work so it is pretty new and no one really knows why they exist but they look very much like a pulse on a single pulse plot, but only a single pulse that has every indicator it is a pulsar other than other same size pulses
- Fast Radio Bursts which took a bunch of turns in science lots of people doubted what they were for a while, now stuff is starting to work so it is pretty new and no one really knows why they exist but they look very much like a pulse on a single pulse plot, but only a single pulse that has every indicator it is a pulsar other than other same size pulses
- Fun With Electronics:
- We Built our own circuit thing that made these 4 red LEDs blink when attached to a 9 volt battery, we soldered the stuff to the circuit board and had a really good time, didn’t think it would work so when the lights blinked I was really surprised
- We Built our own circuit thing that made these 4 red LEDs blink when attached to a 9 volt battery, we soldered the stuff to the circuit board and had a really good time, didn’t think it would work so when the lights blinked I was really surprised
- Project Work:
- Checked the skynet results and thank, we added in a 1800 seconds one observation for one more piece of data
- Checked the skynet results and thank, we added in a 1800 seconds one observation for one more piece of data
- Quiet Skies Activity:
- It involved walking around with a handheld radio and holding it up to things to see if it made any noise, it was really cool because when we held it up to a battery powered lantern, it made noises that either sounded like a teapot boiling, or the noises ECHO made (the disney alien thing)
- It involved walking around with a handheld radio and holding it up to things to see if it made any noise, it was really cool because when we held it up to a battery powered lantern, it made noises that either sounded like a teapot boiling, or the noises ECHO made (the disney alien thing)
- Observing with the GBT!
- We got to see the control room in action and got to see it observe a binary pulsar, not actually very much to see, mostly numbers going up indicating a file getting bigger and a clock counting down to the end of the observation
- We got to see the control room in action and got to see it observe a binary pulsar, not actually very much to see, mostly numbers going up indicating a file getting bigger and a clock counting down to the end of the observation
- College Meeting:
- Most of the mentors are in college and most of the students are in high school so they gave us college advice and we asked questions
- Most of the mentors are in college and most of the students are in high school so they gave us college advice and we asked questions
- Project work:
- Mostly scrambling to complete the poster, reviewed some new data from the telescope and compared with some research done. We found a really interesting article about the specific pulsar we were researching