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Work for Einstein@Home at UWM - job advert

September 09, 2015

Einstein@Home Computational Scientist

The Center for Gravitation, Cosmology and Astrophysics (CGCA) at the University of Wisconsin Â Milwaukee is looking for a creative and talented individual to join our scientific computing team.

Job advert (PDF)

Einstein@Home in latest LIGO Magazine

September 02, 2015

The new LIGO magazine is out and it features an article about Einstein@Home. You read a pdf file of the article here. The article was written by M. Alessandra Papa, Benjamin Knispel, Holger Pletsch and Bernd Machenschalk from the Einstein@Home team, looking at the project's history, infrastructure, and different searches.

Hidden in plain sight: E@H discovery of an elusive gamma-ray pulsar

August 05, 2015

We are glad to announce the discovery of a new gamma-ray pulsar hidden in plain sight in data from the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope.
The object has been discovered by the computers of Connor Barry of Lafayette, Colorado, USA and Rich Johnson of Hayward, California, USA -- Congratulations!
The scientific paper has been published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters. An open-access preprint version is found here.