So what exactly is Einstein@home sipposed to do. Is it searching for an as yet undiscovered kind of pulsar, or is it scanning the already known ones for gravity waves?
Not to be rude or anything, but there have already been numerous threads on this subject.
Jim
> So what exactly is Einstein@home sipposed to do. Is it searching for an as yet
> undiscovered kind of pulsar, or is it scanning the already known ones for
> gravity waves?
>
> ps: I still cant find it. Would the answer be posted in Cafe Einstein, or am I
> looking in the wrong place?
>
Check out Boards:Science
what sciences is einstein@home doing?
> I guessed so. But I couldn't find any obvious ones on the first page so I
> didn't bother looking xD
>
> ps: I still cant find it. Would the answer be posted in Cafe Einstein, or am I
> looking in the wrong place?
Bruce Allen of UWM's LIGO Scientific Collaboration, LSC group is leading the development of the Einstein@Home project. "Einstein@Home" is a project developed to search data from the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) at the California Institute of Technology, in the US and from the GEO 600 gravitational wave observatory in Germany for signals coming from selected extremely dense, rapidly rotating stars. Such sources are believed to be either quark stars or neutron stars, and a subclass of these are already observed by conventional means, and are known as pulsars, electromagnetic wave emitting celestial bodies. If some of these stars are not quite near-perfectly spherical, they should emit gravitational waves, which LIGO and GEO 600 may begin to detect.
Einstein@Home is one, small part of the LSC scientific program. It has been set up and released as a distributed computing project, like SETI@home. Meaning, it relies on computer time donated by private computer users to process data generated by LIGO's and GEO 600's search for gravity waves. For more information, or to sign up, see the external links.
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Not to be rude or anything, but there have already been numerous threads on this subject.
Jim
> So what exactly is Einstein@home sipposed to do. Is it searching for an as yet
> undiscovered kind of pulsar, or is it scanning the already known ones for
> gravity waves?
>
Jim
I guessed so. But I couldn't
)
I guessed so. But I couldn't find any obvious ones on the first page so I didn't bother looking xD
ps: I still cant find it. Would the answer be posted in Cafe Einstein, or am I looking in the wrong place?
> ps: I still cant find it.
)
> ps: I still cant find it. Would the answer be posted in Cafe Einstein, or am I
> looking in the wrong place?
>
Check out Boards:Science
what sciences is einstein@home doing?
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> I guessed so. But I
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> I guessed so. But I couldn't find any obvious ones on the first page so I
> didn't bother looking xD
>
> ps: I still cant find it. Would the answer be posted in Cafe Einstein, or am I
> looking in the wrong place?
From Wikipedia:
Einstein@Home
Bruce Allen of UWM's LIGO Scientific Collaboration, LSC group is leading the development of the Einstein@Home project. "Einstein@Home" is a project developed to search data from the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) at the California Institute of Technology, in the US and from the GEO 600 gravitational wave observatory in Germany for signals coming from selected extremely dense, rapidly rotating stars. Such sources are believed to be either quark stars or neutron stars, and a subclass of these are already observed by conventional means, and are known as pulsars, electromagnetic wave emitting celestial bodies. If some of these stars are not quite near-perfectly spherical, they should emit gravitational waves, which LIGO and GEO 600 may begin to detect.
Einstein@Home is one, small part of the LSC scientific program. It has been set up and released as a distributed computing project, like SETI@home. Meaning, it relies on computer time donated by private computer users to process data generated by LIGO's and GEO 600's search for gravity waves. For more information, or to sign up, see the external links.
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