The State Corporation Roscosmos and the P.N.Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (FIAN) presented the project “Pulsar Music”.
Pulsars are rapidly rotating ultra-high-density neutron stars. They have a period of rotation and a certain modulation of radiation coming to the Earth.
Pulsar signals can be used as time standards and landmarks for satellites, and by converting their frequency into sound waves, you can get a kind of music. It is this “melody” that Russian specialists created.
To form the "music", data from the Spektr-R orbital telescope were used. This device, together with terrestrial radio telescopes, forms a radio interferometer with an extra-large base - the basis of the international Radioastron project. The telescope was launched in 2011. At the beginning of this year, a failure occurred on board the Spektr-R apparatus: the observatory stopped responding to commands. Thus, the mission of the observatory, apparently, .
It should be noted that during its operation, the Spektr-R telescope made it possible to collect a huge amount of important scientific information. It was these data that made it possible to implement the Pulsar Music project. “Now everyone can find out how the space “orchestra” of 26 pulsars sounds, which Russian scientists studied based on data from the Spektr-R orbital telescope and the Radioastron project,” Roscosmos notes.
Source: 3dnews.ru