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Profile
| Academic position | Full Professor |
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| Research fields | Astrophysics |
| Keywords | genaue Pulsankunftszeiten, relativistische Gravitation, Planetensysteme, Neutronensterne |
Current contact address
| Country | United States of America |
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| City | University Park |
| Institution | Pennsylvania State University (PennState) |
| Institute | Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics |
Host during sponsorship
| Prof. Dr. Richard Wielebinski | Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie, Bonn |
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| Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Thomas Henning | Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie, Heidelberg |
| Start of initial sponsorship | 01/05/2002 |
Programme(s)
| 2001 | Humboldt Research Award Programme |
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Nominator's project description
| Professor Wolszczan is an astronomer of international standing, best known for the discovery of planets around a millisecond pulsar. The many astronomical groups searching for extra-terrestial planets were astounded when Professor Wolszczan showed that there were two, possibly more planets around the pulsar PSR1257+12. The planets were discovered through the use of accurate timing of the period of the pulsar and attributing the residues in the timing solution to rotating planets around the object. Professor Wolszczan was educated at the Torun University, Poland. During his PhD studies on pulsars he has spent considerable time at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy (MPIfR) in Bonn. This cooperation has continued up to this day. Professor Wolszczan is now a Distinguished Professor at the Astronomy Department of Penn State University, USA. He is going to cooperate with astronomers in Germany in the analysis of an extended data base of pulsar timing observations that have been collected at his initiative with the Effelsberg 100m radio telescope near Bonn. |
Publications (partial selection)
| 2005 | Oliver Loehmer, Alexander Wolszczan, Richard Wielebinski: Shapiro Delay in the PSR J1640+2244 Binary System. In: The Astrophysical Journal, 2005, 388 |
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| 2004 | Oliver Loehmer, Richard Wielebinski, Alexander Wolszczan: A Search for Cold Dust Around Neutron Stars. In: Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2004, 763 |