National Science Foundation Alan T. Waterman Award

Shrinivas Kulkarni博士正在接受Alan T.沃特曼奖 他的工作是研究恒星、星际介质和天文学 仪器仪表 他是第一个已知的 毫秒脉冲星 他的研究小组进行了调查， 发现球状星团中的双星， 已知例子的1/3。 他还调查了许多 个别的人。 这项工作包括检测x- 一颗毫秒脉冲星的射线发射， 已知最古老的与超新星有关的脉冲星例子 残留物 他证明了一种奇特的射电源是超新星 其边缘嵌有一颗脉冲星。 这意味着 超新星爆炸是高度不对称的， 高速运行的中子星星。 他对星际的研究 介质已经证明了磁离子盘的存在， 这个星系延伸到25千秒差距， 另一个星系的高分辨率图像， M51 在仪器仪表领域，他开发了脉冲星计时 具有宽带宽和快速信号处理器的仪器。 这 一种装置可以探测到较暗和较短周期的辐射 比以前更有可能。 他开发了一种光学 该干涉仪可以产生衍射极限图像， 星 用望远镜观测长周期变星星星Mira 200英寸望远镜在山。帕洛玛天文台显示这颗星星 不是圆形的，因此可能经历非径向的 振荡 他目前正在进行光学研究， 干涉测量旨在将这些技术与 自适应光学的发展。

Dr. Shrinivas Kulkarni is receiving the Alan T. Waterman award for his work on pulsars, the interstellar medium and astronomical instrumentation. He was co-discoverer of the first known millisecond pulsar. His research group has carried out surveys to discover pulsars in globular clusters and is responsible for about 1/3 of the known examples. He has also investigated many individual pulsars. This work has included the detection of x- ray emission from a millisecond pulsar and the discovery of one of the oldest known examples of a pulsar associated with a supernova remnant. He showed that a peculiar radio source was a supernova remnant with a pulsar embedded in its rim. This implies that supernova explosion was highly asymmetric and ejected the resulting neutron star at high velocity. His studies of the interstellar medium have demonstrated the existence of a magneto-ionic disk in the galaxy which extends out to 25 kpc while providing the first high-resolution images in the 3-mm line of CO for another galaxy, M 51. In the area of instrumentation he developed a pulsar timing instrument with a wide band width and fast signal processor. This device permits the detection of fainter and shorter period pulsars than had been possible previously. He has developed an optical interferometer which can produce diffraction limited images of stars. Observations of the long period variable star Mira with the 200 inch telescope at Mt. Palomar Observatory showed that the star is not round and is, thus, likely to be undergoing non-radial oscillations. He is currently carrying out studies of optical interferometry aimed at combining those techniques with developments in adaptive optics.