838: Using Pulsars to Navigate in Space with Dr. Zach Putnam
Universe Today Podcast
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Detection of Gravitational Waves Using X-Ray Polaris
Pulsars are used to detect gravitational waves thanks to the perfection of their signals. Our work hasn't so much been focused on that though, but how we can use x ray polaris to solve what we call the cold start problem. If you observe enough posers, u, uh, you can uniquely determine your position within some finite sized volume of space. It turns out that that volume of space actually can be quite large, as in, like, perhaps the entire inter solar system.
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