科学美国人60秒:家庭电脑帮助确定脉冲星
日期:2013-09-12 08:24

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Home PCs Help Pinpoint Pulsars

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It’s pretty rare to find a scientific study that acknowledges key contributions from individuals who go by names like “IG_the_cheetah” and “Revoluzzer.” But Ig and Rev were big helps in finding previously unknown pulsars in our own Milky Way galaxy—24 of them. The discovery is in the Astrophysical Journal.

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很少见到科学研究承认主要贡献来自于IG_the_cheetah和Revoluzzer这些网友sWyCvafFg5PaWbuqHdU]。但是这些网友在找到银河中之前未知的24颗脉冲星发挥了很大作用OGpYQiNroz3。这个发现发表在《天体物理学》杂志上LKGV7I!PUj_%m

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A pulsar is the rapidly rotating ultra-dense remnant of a collapsed massive star. Imagine the mass of the sun, compressed to the diameter of a medium-size city, spinning faster than a DVD.

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脉冲星是一种快速转动的超高密度残骸,来自毁灭的大型恒星S#R8@c|K|JF|。想象下太阳压缩成中型城市直径大小的物质,比DVD转得还快RzjAje8V(_l=hi4CP

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The new pulsars were found by the distributed computing project Einstein@Home . It uses idle computing time on the PCs of thousands of volunteer users—like Ig and Rev—to scan telescope data for pulsar signals. In this case the data were more than a decade old, but still contained a few hidden gems—such as the pulsars that have now been unearthed, if you will, for astronomers to study in greater detail.

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新的脉冲星是由分布各地的“家中的爱因斯坦”计算机项目发现的6=]NsDLAZxD。使用成千上万个志愿者电脑的闲置计算时间,诸如Ig和Rev的电脑,扫描望远镜数据中的脉冲星信号Rp1EfOkVTeLKWkF。这个项目中的数据有十年之久了,但是还是很有未发现的部分,如果你能发现新的脉冲星,就能使天文学家研究其中细节LxM~oDdf9n!s

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You too can lend your spare computer power to the pulsar hunt. Einstein@Home even runs on Android devices. So your smartphone could help make us all smarter.

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你也可以将你的空闲电脑力量用于寻找脉冲星l](qY]hqY,t=v%LO。“家中的爱因斯坦”项目甚至能在安卓装置上运行YpnPmOPtOS-!kx3|*。所以说你的智能手机能让我们更聪明(C,[6!~wv6O|b9!

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—John Matson

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重点单词
  • massiveadj. 巨大的,大规模的,大量的,大范围的
  • spareadj. 多余的,闲置的,备用的,简陋的 v. 抽出,饶
  • galaxyn. 银河,一群显赫之人
  • massn. 块,大量,众多 adj. 群众的,大规模的 v.
  • rareadj. 稀罕的,稀薄的,罕见的,珍贵的 adj. 煎得
  • unknownadj. 未知的,不出名的
  • pinpointn. 极小之物 v. 精确地找到,准确地轰炸
  • diametern. 直径
  • remnantadj. 剩余的 n. 残(剩)余
  • previouslyadv. 先前,在此之前