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| Paper: |
Early Pulsar Observations in Australia |
| Volume: |
466, Electromagnetic Radiation from Pulsars and Magnetars |
| Page: |
261 |
| Authors: |
Wielebinski, R. |
| Abstract: |
The news about the discovery of the pulsar CP1919 reached Australia
soon after the Hewish et al. publication in Nature came out at the end
of February 1968. Immediately the Parkes radio telescope was transferred
from scheduled observations to observe this new exciting object. Since
pulsars have steep spectra, low radio frequency receivers were needed
that were not supported by the Radiophysics Division of the CSIRO. As a
result I, a staff member of the School of Electrical Engineering, Sydney
University, was asked to come with my low-frequency receivers to Parkes
and join in the first observations. Later the Molonglo Mills Cross radio
telescope showed its suitability to pulsar discoveries and became
involved in a number of important discoveries. New additional equipment
aimed for the reception of pulsating signals had to be constructed in a
hurry. In my talk I will cover the period 1968 to 1970 when I left Sydney
for the Max-Planck-Institute in Bonn with its 100-m radio telescope. |
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