More than 800 new Pulsar discovered by
2023-07-26
The reporter learned from the FAST Operation and Development Center on the 25th that up to now, the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST), known as the "Chinese Celestial Eye", has found more than 800 new Pulsar. On July 25th, the staff worked in the main control room of "China Tianyan". Xinhua News Agency reporter Ou Dongqu, executive deputy director and chief engineer of FAST Operation and Development Center, Jiang Peng, introduced that "China's Celestial Eye" is the world's largest and most sensitive single aperture Radio telescope. At present, the number of new Pulsar discovered by "China's Celestial Eye" is more than three times the total number of Pulsar discovered by all other telescopes at the same time in the world. In recent years, "China's heavenly eye" has continued to produce achievements in the origin and physical mechanism of rapid radio bursts, research on neutral hydrogen universe, Pulsar search and physical research, which has greatly expanded the limits of human vision of observing the universe. The panoramic view of the "China Sky Eye" (drone photo) taken on June 23rd. According to Ou Dongqu, a reporter from Xinhua News Agency, "China's Celestial Eye" has entered a period of achievement explosion. Since this year, many important achievements have been released, including the discovery of Pulsar binary system with a Orbital period of only 53 minutes, the detection of key evidence of the existence of Gravitational wave at the nanosecond frequency, and so on, which continue to maintain China's international leading position in low-frequency Radio astronomy. (New News Agency)
Edit:XiaoWanNing Responsible editor:YingLing
Source:Xinhua News Agency
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