The latest Einstein@Home discovery

I'm proud to announce the latest Einstein@Home discovery, which was published today in Astrophysical Journal Letters.  This identifies a "black-widow" pulsar in data from the Large Area Telescope on board the Fermi satellite.  Our discovery resolves the nature of a mysterious source, first seen two decades ago by the EGRET satellite. We now know that the powerhouse at the center of this source is a remarkable binary system, consisting of a pulsar in close orbit with a very lightweight star.  If you want to learn more, the paper is open-access and is available 
here .  Thank you to the thousands of volunteers who made this discovery possible by donating their computing time to Einstein@Home, and to those whose computers first detected PSR J1653−0158: Yi-Sheng Wu of Taoyuan, Taiwan, and Daniel Scott of Ankeny, Iowa, USA.

Bruce Allen, Director of Einstein@home
 

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Albert Argilaga, Ph.D.
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Finally, the mysterious

Finally, the mysterious source resolved. Congratulations all!

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Excellent news!

Excellent news!

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Happy that my computers can

Happy that my computers can contribute to such a fantastic discovery

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It's always great to hear our

It's always great to hear our CPUs, GPUs, and kilowatts had a hand in moving our understanding forward!

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Wow, that's amazing!

Wow, that's amazing!

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Good to see it has been

Good to see it has been published.

The Server Status page shows FGRPB1G work is almost finished for now (2 days left).

I don't know when more work will be available for FGRPB1G but it would be nice to get BRP4 running on AMD/Nvidia GPUs :)

 

Congratulations!

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Congrats on the

Congrats on the discovery!

Hopefully many more will be found :)


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Excellent!

Excellent!

Yavanius
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Why is it a "black-widow?"

Why is it a "black-widow?"

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Great news!

Great news!

Nguyen Ngoc Anh Khoa
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Fantastic news!

Fantastic news!

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Yavanius wrote: Why is it a

Yavanius wrote:

Why is it a "black-widow?"

The star system is two stars orbiting each other. One star is pulling material from the second star to eventually 'kill' that second star...

 

The analogy is made with the Black Widow spider where the larger female spider eats the male spider for food for their offspring...

 

 

Keep searchin'!

Martin

 

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great work, congratulations!

great work, congratulations! cant wait to read that article 

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Because the Pulsar is

Because the Pulsar is "eating" up it's companion star because of it's superior mass.

...and it refers to a Black Widow spider that eats its male partner after mating.

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...and it refers to a Black

...and it refers to a Black Widow spider that's eat its male partner after mating.

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Anton Petrov over on YouTube

Anton Petrov over on YouTube gives a very good presentation about this Black Widow star system:

 

Black Widow Pulsar Destroying Something Undefined In Its Orbit

 

e@h gets a good mention!

All good spectacular stuff :-)

 

 

Keep searchin',

Martin

 

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Appreciate the update about

Appreciate the update about such amazing news!

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Publishing, is what keeps you

Publishing, is what keeps you in front of the Milky Way project, in my mind. Even though I get more productivity from them ..

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