New Wetware Project - Pulsar Seeking!
1 Nov 2023 20:12:10 UTC
Topic 230298
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Righto rank and file ! Head on over to Zooniverse.org and
- go to the Pulsar Seekers project
- sign up
- do the initial training by selecting Training Mode
- then you can go on to the Expert Mode
thus registering for much interesting work using your eyes and brain. This is a joint effort by Zooniverse and E@H, and you can play a vital part in the post-processing stage of our radio pulsar searches and help out our scientists.
You will learn about pulsars as you go along. There is help available, educational resources and a discussion board if you want to show others some plot and get opinion/advice. You might even be looking at the data from a work-unit that you home computer has been working on, who can say ?
SO I look forward to seeing you ALL over there clicking those signal plots !! ;-)
Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
Here are a few examples using
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Here are a few examples using live data.
Radio frequency interference ( or RFI, which you will see plenty of ) :
What I call a mish-mash :
A feint pulsar candidate IMHO, noting the vertical bands in the time ( bottom left ) plot and frequency ( top right ) plot at the same phase as the pulse profile's ( top left ) peaks :
Here is a better pulsar candidate :
You don't have to decide if some plot is a pulsar, just judge if a plot is worthy of closer attention by the scientists. Most of the time you will be vetoing. Given the subjectivity of the decisions, I'd bet that any given plot is shown to several volunteers and some quorum resolution applied. Of course if you do find a pulsar it may not be a new one, but again let the scientists deal with that. Search results are published in the usual way. You can get personal recognition for a new discovery!
Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
Thank you for posting
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Thank you for posting this intro. I'm looking forward to helping out with this.
Surely, this project is a
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Surely, this project is a perfect candidate for an AI?
Richard
Kavanagh wrote:Surely, this
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Already is AI. This is the step after that.
Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal