Research
About PuMA
First pulsar observations in South America
PuMa, Pulsar Monitoring in Argentina, is a scientific collaboration dedicated to pulsar observation from the south hemisphere. The team, integrated by scientist and technicians from the Argentine Institute of Radioastronomy (IAR) and the Rochester Institute of Technolgy (RIT), is currently working with the two 30 meters single-dish radio antennas in the Institute. Our main goal is to perform long-term observational campaign of pulsars -rapidly-rotating and highly-magnetized neutron stars- to gain a better understanding of their nature. In particular, we observe milisecond pulsars used in pulsar timing arrays and glitching pulsars.
OUR FOURTH PAPER WITH GLITCH DETECTIONS AND SINGLE PULSES ANALYSIS IS HERE!In this work, lead by Ezequiel Zubieta, we report and characterize the detection of a glitch in the Vela Pulsar, one glitch in PSR J1740-3015, two mini-glitches in PSR J1048-5832, and confirm the detection of a glitch in PSR J0742-2822. We also perform a single pulses study with SOM clustering techniques to search for unusual behavior of the clusters during the days around the Vela glitch.
OUR THIRD PAPER IS HERE!In this work, lead by Carlos Lousto, we study individual pulses of Vela with machine learning techniques.
OUR SECOND PAPER IS HERE!In this work, lead by Valentina Sosa Fiscella, we analyze observations of the mililsecond pulsar J0437-4715 showing the potential of the IAR to observe with high cadence and long periods of time. This is also the first (Master's) thesis in astronomy developed in the group!
CHECK OUR FIRST PAPER PUBLISHED in A&A HERE
