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written by
Laurence Marschall, Glenn Snyder, P. Richard Cooper, Michael Hayden, and Rhonda Good
educational validator:
HelenMarie Hofman
The software for this exercise presents students with a radio telescope they can point at a source in the sky, viewing the output of the radio receiver on a graphic display that resembles a digital oscilloscope. The student manual describes an exercise in which students measure the signals from several pulsars at various frequencies, learning about the appearance of pulsar signals, the strength and period of the signal as a function of frequency, pulsar period, age of the pulsar and use interstellar dispersion to estimate the distance to the pulsar.
Please note that this resource requires
at least version 95 of MS-Windows.
<a href="https://www.compadre.org/astronomy/items/detail.cfm?ID=3147">Marschall, L, G. Snyder, P. Cooper, M. Hayden, and R. Good. CLEA: Radio Astronomy of Pulsars.</a>
L. Marschall, G. Snyder, P. Cooper, M. Hayden, and R. Good, CLEA: Radio Astronomy of Pulsars, <http://public.gettysburg.edu/~marschal/clea/plsrlab.html>.
Marschall, L., Snyder, G., Cooper, P., Hayden, M., & Good, R. (n.d.). CLEA: Radio Astronomy of Pulsars. Retrieved October 11, 2026, from http://public.gettysburg.edu/~marschal/clea/plsrlab.html
Marschall, L, G. Snyder, P. Cooper, M. Hayden, and R. Good. CLEA: Radio Astronomy of Pulsars. http://public.gettysburg.edu/~marschal/clea/plsrlab.html (accessed 11 October 2026).
Marschall, Laurence, Glenn Snyder, P. Richard Cooper, Michael Hayden, and Rhonda Good. CLEA: Radio Astronomy of Pulsars. 11 Oct. 2026 <http://public.gettysburg.edu/~marschal/clea/plsrlab.html>.
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}
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