Einstein@Home part of "SFB/Transregio 7"
18 Apr 2007 7:47:34 UTC
Topic 192599
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Good morning.
I´ve read about the "SFB/Transregio 7 Gravitational Wave Astronomy" and now my question is, if Einstein@Home is part of this project. Because I would like to start my studies in physics in october at Jena University.
This link will give mor information about the project.
Einstein@Home part of "SFB/Transregio 7"
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Hi Svenie25,
Looks like both projects are part of an international effort by many, to open the 'new window to the universe' that is the detection, measurement, and physical interpretation of gravitational waves, predicted by Einstein's famous General Theory of Relativity.
SFB/TR7 is focused on many of the theoretical aspects (like coming up with templates for matching possible signals, running the various models on supercomputers of things like spacetime-wrenching black hole mergers, working on how to interpret and understand the signals that are detected, developing ways to handle the data that will come from the space-based antennas, helping to develop the materials that will be used in the next generation ground-based interferometers [see projects C3 and C4], and the list goes on...).
The LIGOs are on the experimental end of the endeavor, and Einstein at Home is of course helping to crunching the data. There was recently some excellent news in this post about getting to include GEO600 and VIRGO data in what we're crunching...