Andrew Lyne

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Andrew Geoffrey Lyne
FRS
Lyne in 2007
Born (1942-07-13) 13 July 1942 (age 81)
Alma materSt John's College, Cambridge
Scientific career
InstitutionsJodrell Bank Observatory
University of Manchester
University of Cambridge
Thesis Interferometric Observations of Lunar Occulations and Pulsars  (1970)
Websitewww.jb.man.ac.uk/~agl

Andrew Geoffrey Lyne

School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester, as well as an ex-director of the Jodrell Bank Observatory. Despite retiring in 2007 he remains an active researcher within the Jodrell Bank Pulsar Group.[1][2] Lyne writes that he is "mostly interested in finding and understanding radio pulsars in all their various forms and with their various companions. Presently, I am most occupied with the development of new multibeam search systems at Jodrell and Parkes, in order to probe deeper into the Galaxy, particularly for millisecond pulsars, young pulsars and any that might be in binary systems."[3]

Education

Lyne was educated at

Radio Astronomy.[4]

Claimed pulsar planet

In 1991, Andrew Lyne and

PSR 1829-10. When Lyne announced the retraction of his results at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society, he received thunderous applause from his scientific colleagues for having the intellectual integrity and the courage to admit this error publicly.[6]

Double pulsar

In 2003, Lyne and his team discovered the first binary system found in which both components were pulsed

PSR J0737-3039 system a "fantastic natural laboratory" for studying specialized effects of the General Theory of Relativity
. Other recent work that Lyne has undertaken includes research on the globular cluster at 47 Tucanae,[8] whose dense stellar population acts as a nursery for millisecond and binary pulsars.

See also

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References

  1. PMID 22932377
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  2. ^ "Pulsar Astrophysics | Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics".
  3. ^ "Andrew Lyne's Home Page".
  4. ^ Lyne, Andrew G. (1970). Interferometric observations of lunar occulations and pulsars (PhD thesis). University of Manchester. Archived from the original on 23 December 2012. Retrieved 19 September 2012.
  5. S2CID 4339517
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  6. ^ Croswell, K. (1997). Planet Quest. Oxford University Press. p. 149.
  7. S2CID 18052400
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  8. ^ "The 47 Tucanae Pulsars Homepage". Archived from the original on 22 December 2004. Retrieved 8 January 2005.
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