Pulsars are believed to be strongly magnetized, fast rotating neutron stars, with over 2000 discovered in our Galaxy so far. In the long march towards the elucidation of the mysterious ways of pulsars, a few special ones have taught us more than most of the rest put together.
Apart from sharing our understanding of the origin and evolution of these cosmic light-houses,the talk will try to highlight a few illustrious members of the pulsar family, and focus on some of the key messages they bring to us.
Works at Raman Research Institute, Bangalore, in their Astronomy & Astrophysics group, since 1980.
An electrical engineer by training(BTech 1980 IIT Kanpur; PhD 1988 IIT Bombay).Primarily engaged in radio astronomy activities.Signal and image processing, instrumentation,and understanding noise & uncertainties are his interests.
He has been trying to learn about these issues in the context of pulsars, interstellar medium and radio interferometry.