All available pictures and figures for Einstein@Home's first pulsar discovery

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Aerial View of Arecibo Observatory, Arecibo, P.R. The facility is owned by the National Science Foundation and managed by Cornell University.
copyright: Cornell University

Einstein@Home discovery plot. (Left) significance as a function of DM and spin frequency (all E@H results for the discovery beam). (Right) the pulse profile at 1.5 GHz (GBT). The bar illustrates the extent of the pulse.
copyright: AEI Hannover

Position of PSR J2007+2722 (red circle) in the constellation of Vulpecula in the evening sky in August; simulated view of the sky with the naked eye.
copyright: AEI Hannover

Position of PSR J2007+2722 (red circle) in the constellation of Vulpecula in the evening sky in August; constellations art overlaid for illustrative purposes.
copyright: AEI Hannover

Close-up of the constellation Vulpecula with the position of PSR J2007+2722 (red circle); simulated view with binoculars.
copyright: AEI Hannover

The Einstein@Home radio pulsar search screensaver.
copyright: AEI Hannover

Prof. Bruce Allen and graduate student Benjamin Knispel with discovery plot.
copyright: Thomas Damm / AEI Hannover

Prof. Jim Cordes, Cornell University, chair of the PALFA collaboration.
copyright: Cornell University

Einstein@Home system administrator David Hammer (right) and Assistant Professor Xavier Siemens (left), Co-Principal Investigator on the Einstein@Home Project, in the UWM Data Center. The computers that send the gravitational wave data to the citizen scientists and collect the results are directly behind them.
copyright: UWM

Prof. Bruce Allen, leader of the Einstein@Home project and director at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute)
copyright: N. Michalke / AEI Hannover

Prof. Bruce Allen, leader of the Einstein@Home project and director at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute)
copyright: Thomas Damm / AEI Hannover

Prof. Jim Cordes, Cornell University, chair of the PALFA collaboration.
copyright: Cornell University

Benjamin Knispel, graduate student of Prof. Allen at the AEI working on the Einstein@Home project
copyright: Thomas Damm / AEI Hannover





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Last Updated: Aug 12, 2010