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| Arecibo - Costa Rica | |
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| Parkes - AU | |
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Which telescope has been the best Radio Pulsar chaser in the world so far? We have three candidates: Arecibo (300 m fixed antenna also featuring as guest actor in 'Contact' with Jody Foster), Green Banks (100 m swinging antenna in West Virginia) and Parkes (70 m swinging antenna in Australia).
Exercise to the reader: guess the winner!
A few hints:
- All of them are in quite - radio quiet location
- Two of them points towards the galactic center (more pulsars) one towards the galactic anticenter
- Two of them can follow sources one of them cannot
- One of them is run by the same people who run the ATNF Radio Pulsar catalogue.
Hey, don't forget Parkes' starring/title role in "The Dish" (2000)!
ReplyDelete-Derek