[Phys-L] David's latest triumph

[palmer at SFU.CA (Leigh Palmer)]

I have been away for a while, lurking inattentively. We went down to
Cape Canaveral for the launch of Swift. For those who know me (or
David) I pass along these items:

http://www.lanl.gov/orgs/pa/newsbulletin/2004/11/17/text02.shtml
(Read to the end. The article is actually about David.)

 From http://swift.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/swift/operations/status_log.html :

> Dec. 16, 2004
>
>  Swift's BAT has successfully detected its first X-ray pulsar! The
> transient pulsar, V0332+53, has been detected over the past ten days
> in the BAT data. Fourier analysis of these data has found a very
> strong and sharp feature at extremely high confidence level at the
> first harmonic of the pulsar frequency. This observation confirms that
> the timing properties of the BAT are good. We will load the
> appropriate pulsar parameters into the flight software registers to
> allow on-board extraction of data for this pulsar.

Leigh (David's Dad)