Welcome! In May 2006 we shall be starting an active research program in radio astronomy at WVU. We use some of the largest radio telescopes in the world such as Arecibo, Parkes and the nearby Green Bank Telescope to study pulsars. Pulsars are rapidly rotating, highly magnetic neutron stars which have been formed in the supernova explosions of massive stars. They are amazing astrophysical laboratories for studying general relativity, the interstellar medium, gravitational waves and binary stellar evolution. Further information about pulsars can be found in this review article.
In addition to WVU undergraduate and graduate students, we are now looking for a postdoctoral research assistant to join our group. Click here for further details.
Please see the individual homepages of Drs. Lorimer and McLaughlin for more details of our research.
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Crab supernova remnant | Green Bank Telescope | Double pulsar |