Astrometrics officer's log

Posted on Monday December 5th, 2016 @ 7:41pm by Ensign Yojin Vazix
Edited on on Friday December 9th, 2016 @ 12:08am

Mission: Episode Eleven: Lighthouse
Location: Deep Space
Timeline: Stardate 94072.43

It's been a week since my unexpected reassignment and this would be my first official log.

My new posting is very different from my previous one.
I'm no longer one of many scientists working on a space exploration and research vessel. A training vessel, but still.
I'm now a senior Astrometrics officer (the only astrometrics officer), working directly under the Chief Science Officer.
And it is not a ship with a scientific purpose, so the diversity of work as well as my resources here are limited.

But the Captain seems to have a weakness for space exploration and I will have the benefit of this tendency.

As it is not my place to file a full After Action Report, I will be limiting it to the data of Astromertical value.

I've analysed the telemetry gathered from the system of PSR-2189 -L and found several interesting points.
According to the radiation patterns and the absence of the protoplanetary debris, the age of this Pulsar would be between 320-350 Million years of age.
Additionally, this system exhibited 6 large planetary bodies, 3 of which are Gas giants.
The most astonishing fact is that to our knowledge, pulsars tend to "Turn-off" after 10-100 Million years from their creation in Super-Nova.
But this one is not only pulsate still, its spin is still relatively fast, making it a 1.5 seconds pulsar.
Since no evidence of a binary system were discovered, I ruled out the possibility of an X-Ray binary, creating an MSP (millisecond pulsar) that has been cooling off.

My hypothesis is that the old and vigorous pulsar has been created from a class O hypergiant with a massive planetary mass, that created an extra-energetic Pulsar,
that continued absorbing planetary matter to feed its rotation.

I will submit the data and my analysis to Starfleet Science for review, with hope to shed some light on the diversity of Pulsar creation in general and the
rare hypergiant end of life in particular.

As this mission wasn't the typical survey mission I've been used to, I guess that this field science is what to medical officers is Frontier Medicine.
I think I'm ready for more.