The Pulsar Catalogue is an excel spread-sheet which contains data for 1,687 pulsars. The data is from the ANTF pulsar catalogue found at http://www.atnf.csiro.au/research/pulsar/psrcat/. This data includes the J names of the pulsars, periods (P) in seconds, period derivatives () in seconds and dispersion measures (DM) in pc cm-3. You will produce graphs, calculate the ages of pulsars, sort data using features of the excel spread-sheet in order to determine which pulsars are millisecond pulsars(MSP) or normal pulsars and determine the proximity of pulsars to the Earth using the dispersion measures (DM).
