| Jocelyn Bell Burnell's Chart Recorder | |
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Origin |
Jocelyn Bell Burnell |
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Type |
Electromechanical and Paper Recorder |
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Effects |
Records vibrational or repetition frequency |
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Downsides |
Simulates intensive flashing and pressure similar to pulsar gravitation |
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Activation |
Usage for analysis |
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Collected by |
Warehouse 13 |
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Section |
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Date of Collection |
June 30, 2006 |
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Origin[]
Dame Susan Jocelyn Bell Burnell (born 15 July 1943) is a Northern Irish physicist who, as a doctoral student, discovered the first radio pulsars in 1967. Bell Burnell detected a "bit of scruff" on her chart-recorder papers that tracked across the sky with the stars. The signal had been visible in data taken in August, but as the papers had to be checked by hand, it took her three months to find it. She established that the signal was pulsing with great regularity, at a rate of about one pulse every one and a third seconds. Temporarily dubbed "Little Green Man 1" (LGM-1) the source (now known as PSR B1919+21) was identified after several years as a rapidly rotating neutron star. This discovery later earned the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1974, but she was not among the awardees.
She helped build the Interplanetary Scintillation Array over two years and initially noticed the anomaly, sometimes reviewing as much as 96 feet (29 m) of paper data per night. Bell later said that she had to be persistent in reporting the anomaly in the face of skepticism from supervisor Anthony Hewish, who initially insisted it was due to interference and man-made.
A pulsar is a highly magnetized rotating neutron star that emits beams of electromagnetic radiation out of its magnetic poles. This radiation can be observed only when a beam of emission is pointing toward Earth (similar to the way a lighthouse can be seen only when the light is pointed in the direction of an observer), and is responsible for the pulsed appearance of emission. Neutron stars are very dense and have short, regular rotational periods. This produces a very precise interval between pulses that ranges from milliseconds to seconds for an individual pulsar.
Effects[]
Shows the oscillation period of any object or pattern. Will record any occurrence that repeats with any regularity on separate amplitude lines, marking everything without skips. Generated papers can sometimes measure over 30 meters long if left to just collect data.
Causes intense flashing and pressure that can trigger migraines, strokes and seizures, often when glancing towards the open skies. Without any light formation, the pressure instead increases exponentially to compress matter into a dense droplet, usually whatever they were looking towards.