ARCC Angel: Deliverance from the Tedium of Pulsar Candidate Viewing
Abstract
The Arecibo Remote Command Center (ARCC) was established at the University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College (UTB/TSC) to involve minority students in current astrophysics research. One of the main objectives of the program is to find new radio pulsars. Pulsar survey observations, many of which are done by the group, yield a large number of possible pulsar candidates. Potential candidates are gone through and rated with the use of the ARCC Explorer, a viewer that displays the profiles and observables of the pulsar candidate. A recent addition to the ARCC Explorer is a pulsar plotter ARCC Angel. The new tool plots candidates from any survey in the ARCC Explorer database according to a specified attribute of the candidate versus other specified attributes. We present the plotting tool as well as a subset of the many ways of plotting the large number of pulsar candidates currently stored in the ARCC Explorer database.
- Publication:
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American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts #215
- Pub Date:
- January 2010
- Bibcode:
- 2010AAS...21545308M