Radio Observations of Pulsars

来自“脉冲星”的射电脉冲的计时对物理学和天文学的许多领域都很重要，包括计时标准的完整性、引力辐射效应的探测和测量、中子星外壳位移的测量，以及对脉冲星如何诞生、“重生”和随时间演化的理解。首席调查员(PI)被广泛认为领导着这个小组，在脉冲星脉冲的计时方面做了很多最精确的工作。他建议使用他在阿雷西博和绿岸射电天文台设计的改进设备来继续这些观测。预计这项工作将继续是将观测天体物理学和广义相对论测试联系起来的最基本的工作之一。

The timing of radio pulses from "pulsars" has become important to a number of areas in physics and astronomy, including the integrity of time-keeping standards, the detection and measurement of the effects of gravitational radiation, the measurement of shifts of the crusts of neutron stars, and the understanding of how pulsars are born, "reborn," and evolve with time. The Principal Investigator (PI) is widely regarded as heading the group doing much of the most precise work on the timing of pulsar pulses. He proposes to continue these observations using improved equipment that he has designed at Arecibo and Green Bank radio observatories. It is expected that this work will continue to be among the most fundamental in linking observational astrophysics and tests of General Relativity.