Pulsar physics and the application of pulsar timing

Beijing, May 2011

Main aims

• Develop international collaboration• Provide an introduction to pulsar astronomy• Introduce new methods for processing pulsars

What have we covered? Pulsars?

Quarks

Gravitational wavesGravitational waves

Atomic time standards

Rotation of EarthRotation of EarthMicro-lensingMicro-lensing

Planetary massesPlanetary masses

SupernovaeSupernovae

Supermassive black holesSupermassive black holes

X-ray binaries

Galactic magnetic fields

Magnetars

Interstellar plasmaInterstellar plasma

Superfluidity

Solar Wind

Wind nebulaeWind nebulae

What telescopes?

Fermi

ParkesParkes

Effelsberg

PushchinoPushchino

KalyazinKalyazin

Xinjiang Observatory

GreenBank Telescope

EffelsbergEffelsberg

Wilcox Solar ObservatoryWilcox Solar Observatory

FASTFAST

ChandraChandra

The tutorials• Listened to amazing science talks! • Data publically available from the Parkes data archive (huge

amount of research quality data – all can be downloaded) – Jonathan Khoo’s tutorial (referee’s comments on publication received today – only very minor changes required – paper should be on astro-ph within 1 week)

• For search mode data – can process using standard pulsar search software – Mike Keith’s tutorial

• For known-pulsar observations – can process using PSRCHIVE – Willem van Straten’s tutorial

• Can process arrival times using using TEMPO2 – 饺子’ s tutorial

Lots of people to thank …

• The SOC:• R.N. Manchester (CSIRO Astronomy and Space

Science)• JinLin Han (NAO)• Na Wang (UAO)• HaiTao Wu (NTSC)• Guojun Qiao (PKU)

Lots of people to thank …

• The LOC:• Ding Chen (NTSC,Chair)• Renxin Xu (PKU)• Chen Wang (NAO) • Yuanjie Du (NAO)• Chengshi Zhao (NTSC)• Thanks to all people who ran around with the

microphone, created the webpage, ran the registration, picked up international guests at the airport, helped with lunch, chaired sessions, played ping-pong …

International guests

• R. Manchester, J. Khoo, D. Yardley (Australia)• W. Coles (USA)• V. Potapov, O. Malov (Russia)

• Mike Keith, Paul Demorest (x2), David Champion and Willem van Straten

JinLin Han

• Thanks for all your work:• Organising the meeting• Organising the accommodation• Organising the food• Sending out invitation letters/emails• Running skype• Giving a talk• …

Chen Ding

• Providing the idea for the meeting• Organising the talks• Funding the meeting• Supporting many international guests

(including myself)• Giving a talk!• Giving the best gifts ever received in a pulsar

conference – ping-pong bats!!

Two reasons for working in China …

• (1) The pulsar community • and

Say ni hao to “Du Sha” tonight at the dinner!