{"id":270,"date":"2016-02-17T20:02:47","date_gmt":"2016-02-18T01:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2016\/02\/17\/physics-professor-david-moffett-helps-study-signals-from-space\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T13:48:56","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T18:48:56","slug":"physics-professor-david-moffett-helps-study-signals-from-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/physics-professor-david-moffett-helps-study-signals-from-space\/","title":{"rendered":"Physics professor David Moffett helps study signals from space"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1322\" style=\"width: 353px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/pari-shot.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1322\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1322 lazyload\" title=\"pari-shot\" data-src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/pari-shot.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"343\" height=\"266\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 343px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 343\/266;\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1322\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of the receivers is hoisted 75 feet in the air for installation. Photo by Perry Hebard.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>DECEMBER 19, 2011<br \/>\nby Vince Moore, Media Relations Director<\/p>\n<p>David Moffett, Associate Professor of Physics at Furman, played a key role in the process that led to two highly specialized receivers being mounted onto radio telescopes last week at the Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute (PARI), in Transylvania County, N.C.<\/p>\n<p>Faculty and students at UNC-Asheville and Furman, as well as PARI staff, have spent six years designing and constructing the new instrument for studying signals from space. The two custom-built receivers, each mounted on PARI\u2019s 26-meter radio telescopes, will be linked using specialized, high-speed computers to create a complex piece of equipment called an interferometer.<\/p>\n<p>Moffett, who teaches physics and astronomy at Furman, collaborates with faculty from UNC-Asheville, and staff at the Pisgah Astronomical Institute.\u00a0 He is manager of Furman\u2019s Timmons Planetarium, and his research interests include the study of supernova remnants, pulsars, and the promotion of astronomy through education and outreach.\u00a0 He also serves as the Physics Department\u2019s pre-engineering dual-degree advisor.<\/p>\n<p>Moffett joined the Furman faculty in 1999.\u00a0 He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from North Carolina State University, and his Ph.D. from New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unca.edu\/news-events\/news\/2011\/12\/interferometer-receivers-mounted-pari-dennison\">Read more in UNC-Asheville news release<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DECEMBER 19, 2011<br \/>\nby Vince Moore, Media Relations Director<\/p>\n<p>Professor David Moffett played a key role in the process that led to two highly specialized receivers being mounted onto radio telescopes last week at the Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute (PARI), in Transylvania County, N.C. \u00a0Faculty and students at UNC-Asheville and Furman, as well as PARI staff, have spent six years designing and constructing the new instrument for studying signals from space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":271,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-physics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}