About Einstein@Home
Thank you for your interest in Einstein@Home!Einstein@Home is a World Year of Physics 2005 and an International Year of Astronomy 2009 project supported by the American Physical Society (APS) and by a number of international organizations.
Einstein@Home uses your computer's idle time to search for weak astrophysical signals from spinning neutron stars (also called pulsars) using data from the LIGO gravitational-wave detectors, the Arecibo radio telescope, and the Fermi gamma-ray satellite. Einstein@Home volunteers have already discovered more than three dozens new neutron stars, and we hope to find many more in the future. Our long-term goal is to make the first direct detections of gravitational-wave emission from spinning neutron stars. Gravitational waves were predicted by Albert Einstein almost a century ago, but have never been directly detected. Such observations would open up a new window on the universe, and usher in a new era in astronomy.
To learn more about Einstein@Home, please explore the links under "Science information and progress reports" below, or read some of the popular articles linked from "Einstein@Home in the News" below.
If you want to participate, please follow the "Join Einstein@Home" instructions below. It takes just a minute or two to sign up, and little or no maintenance to keep Einstein@Home running. Einstein@Home is available for Windows, Linux and Macintosh OS X computers.
Bruce Allen
Director of Einstein@Home;
Director, MPI for Gravitational Physics, Hannover;
Professor of Physics, U. of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
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Science information and progress reports
- First report on the S3 analysis - 2005/09/11
- Final report on the S3 analysis - 2007/03/28
- Report on the S4 analysis - 2008/05/16
(published in Physical Review D) - Report on the first S5 analysis - 2009/08/11
(published in Physical Review D) - Technical paper on GC search method - 2010/08/10
(published in Physical Review Letters) - Article on E@Hs current GW search - 2010/08/10
- Info on the Arecibo Radio Pulsar Search - 2010/01/15
- Science article about the first E@H pulsar discovery - 2010/08/16
- Additional material about the first E@H pulsar discovery - 2010/08/12
- Overview of Einstein@Home Radio Pulsar (Re-)Discoveries:
- Arecibo Binary Pulsar Search - 2011/03/02
- Arecibo Mock Spectrometer Pulsar Search - 2012/10/16
- Parkes Multibeam Pulsar Survey - 2012/12/05
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- Einstein@Home Beta Test
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