PSR J0034-0721

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This displays 500 individual pulses (about 471 seconds worth of data) collected on January 19, 2016 using the Murchison Widefield Array telescope. PhD student Sammy McSweeney of Curtin University in Australia reduced and analyzed this data. Pulsar J0034-0721 shows long "nulls" (times when no pulses are received at all) and "drifting subpulses" (miniature pulses that move diagonally across the diagram). These phenomena are not well understood. The pulsar rotates every 0.94 seconds, located about 3000 light-years away in the constellation Cetus. Printer Settings: Printer Brand: LulzBot Printer: TAZ 5 Notes: Using GizmoDorks 3mm glow-in-the-dark filament (HY-PLA-300-WHT), we had to run the printer at 75% speed for good results. How I Designed This: I used the stl_tools package to convert folded pulsar data into a 3D model. It was printed with assistance from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Rapid Prototyping Lab. The software used is available at: https://github.com/dlakaplan/singlepulse