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W. van Straten

Researcher at Auckland University of Technology

Publications -  218
Citations -  17460

W. van Straten is an academic researcher from Auckland University of Technology. The author has contributed to research in topics: Pulsar & Millisecond pulsar. The author has an hindex of 69, co-authored 204 publications receiving 15366 citations. Previous affiliations of W. van Straten include University of Sydney & Max Planck Society.

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Development of a pulsar-based timescale

TL;DR: In this article, the Parkes Pulsar Timing Array (PPTA) project has developed the first pulsar-based timescale that has a precision comparable to the uncertainties in international atomic timescales.
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A polarized fast radio burst at low Galactic latitude

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TL;DR: The Parkes radio telescope was used to detect a fast radio burst (FRB) with a dispersion measure (DM) of 1105.6 +/− 0.8 pc cm(−3) as discussed by the authors.