Pulsars at the Arecibo Observatory

What is a pulsar?

Recent highlights of pulsar research at Arecibo:

• An eccentric binary millisecond pulsar in the Galactic plane! (see the Science paper). This is the First Millisecond Pulsar Found by P-ALFA!
• A Massive Neutron Star in the Globular Cluster M5!
• Arecibo finds a dozen new millisecond pulsars in globular clusters!
• Best Limits Ever on Dipolar Gravitational Wave Emission!
• ALFA Finds the Youngest Binary Pulsar Ever!
• Testing Gravitational Theories with Pulsar Timing at Arecibo
• First New ALFA Pulsar!
• ALFA Pulsar surveys start!

ALFA Pulsar Surveys.

General AO observing site, which contains the remote and pulsar observing sites.

Pulsar Instrumentation

Control Interface Module for Arecibo (CIMA)

Useful files and software.

• time_ao.dat - Latest clock correction files for the Arecibo Observatory - updated to 2008 June 11.
• ut1.dat - Earth rotation updated to end of 2008 June (includes up to IAU bulletin B 244).

Catalogs and publications, people, research groups and telescopes.