Outreach - International Pulsar Timing Array
IPTA Education and Public Outreach
Photo Credit: Andreas Freise
The IPTA is dedicated to educating all people about pulsars and gravitational
wave astronomy and to inspiring the next generation of citizen and
professional scientists and engineers. We support the outreach efforts of our
individual PTA members and provide a framework for cooperating on education
and outreach projects on a global scale. You can stay up-to-date with the
latest IPTA news by following us on Facebook.
An Introduction to IPTA Science
You can learn more about pulsars by visiting the
“Introduction to
Pulsars”
outreach page hosted by the Australia Telescope National Facility.
A description of gravity, General Relativity, and gravitational waves by
NANOGrav & the EPTA is available from our friends at gwoptics as an
multi-lingual e-book
Play and experiment with the games/apps provided by gwoptics on their
“Play” page
While the IPTA is interested in very low frequency gravitational waves,
other collaborations, such as LIGO, can search for higher frequency
gravitational waves, see the
University of Birmingham’s Gravitational
Wave
group the for more
details.
Get Involved and Stay Connected
Anyone in the world can help search for pulsars using their home computer by
joining the
Einstein@Home
project.
The Australian
Pulse@Parkes
program introduces students to observing with the Parkes Radio Telescope.
The Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia, United States operates the
Pulsar Search Collaboratory
, which engages
high school students and teachers in hands-on research by searching for new
pulsars.
Follow
NANOGrav
and the
EPTA
on their Facebook pages.
NANOGrav members are releasing a series of YouTube videos and podcasts
(available for free from both the NANOGrav website and iTunes) that discuss
PTA science topics.