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Invited Talk: Wednesday 22 May 2019 - Ms Sarah Buchner
Title: Introduction to Pulsars
Author: Ms Sarah Buchner
Commissioning Scientist
South African Radio Astronomy Observatory (SARAO)
Abstract:
Pulsars, rotating neutron stars, are excellent laboratories for investigating extreme gravity and for probing the interstellar medium. Earlier this year Meertime, a collaboration of pulsar astronomers across the world, began collecting data from MeerKAT. In this talk I will give an introduction to pulsars and show some of the early results from the Meertime observations with MeerKAT.
More about the author:
Sarah Buchner completed an MSc at Rhodes University using the HartRAO 26 m for small area mapping. She then worked at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) as a lecturer in the Augmented science programme and then as the Antarctic Research Officer. In 2001 she joined HartRAO and ran the pulsar timing programme. Her research interests focused on observing glitches in the Vela pulsar. She moved to Cape Town in 2014, joining SARAO as a commissioning scientist. At SARAO she has worked on pulsar timing commissioning for MeerKAT.