October 2008

You don't see the same universe twice. This month Jim Cordes tells us [20:12 - 34:25] about the recently discovered class of pulsars which emit their pulses in a very intermittent way. Jim also tells us about future searches for transient astrophysical objects and his use of the Arecibo radio telescope. As usual we get the latest news from Megan [01:14 - 08:37] and find out what you can see in the northern night sky from Ian [38:10 - 52:55].

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The news - October 2008

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• LHC first beam
• astro-ph: The Least Luminous Galaxy: Spectroscopy of the Milky Way Satellite Segue 1
• Yale: Astronomers Discover Most Dark Matter-Dominated Galaxy in Universe
• Nature: Weird freaky burst
• astro-ph: Discovery of an Unusual Optical Transient with the Hubble Space Telescope, Barbary, K. et al
• astro-ph: SCP06F6: A carbon-rich extragalactic transient at redshift z~0.14, B.T. Gaensicke, A.J. Levan, T.R. Marsh, P.J. Wheatley
• Nature: 'Galactic internet' proposed
• astro-ph: The Cepheid Galactic Internet, John G. Learned, R-P. Kudritzki, Sandip Pakvasa, A. Zee
• Cepheid Variables

Interview with Prof James Cordes (Cornell)

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• Jim Cordes at Cornell
• Large Synoptic Survey Telescope
• Murchison Widefield Array
• Jodcast (January 2006) interview with Michael Kramer about pulsars
• Jodcast (June 2007) interview with Jocelyn Bell Burnell about the discovery of pulsars
• Jodrell Bank astronomers find new type of star
• Arecibo Radio Telescope

The night sky for October 2008

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• Ian Morison's Night Sky pages for October 2008
• NASA's Ulysses
• NASA's SOHO

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