Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0450173

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0450173

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

New Pulsar Instrumentation for Gravitation Wave Detection and Understanding the Emission Mechanism. Millisecond pulsar timing currently provides the most sensitive method of detecting long-period gravitational waves which permeate the Universe. Parkes leads the world in the discovery and timing of millisecond pulsars. This has motivated the development of three new advanced instruments including a cyrogenic dual-band receiver, a very wide-band correlator and a baseband recorder with an in-built supercomputer. We aim to exploit these new technologies to systematically study the pulsar population. We will establish a timing array which can detect gravitational waves, enable GLAST to identify over 100 gamma-ray pulsars and study the pulsar emission mechanism at sub-microsecond time resolution.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2004

End Date: 31-12-2009

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $1,185,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Astronomy And Astrophysics | Astronomical and Space Sciences | Baseband Technology |

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Physical sciences | Scientific instrumentation

Other Keywords

Astronomical and Space Sciences | Astronomy And Astrophysics | Baseband Technology | Physical sciences | Scientific instrumentation

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