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The Einstein@Home Arecibo Radio Pulsar search |
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Project Background / F.A.Q. |
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1. What is a radio pulsar? | 5. What kind of data is used in the search? |
2. Why do we search for radio pulsars in binary systems? | 6. How does this project help searching for Gravitational Waves? |
3. How does our new search method work? | 7. What can we learn about radio pulsars? |
4. What's new about our new search method? | 8. What happens, when your computer finds something interesting? |
The Arecibo telescope located on the island of Puerto Rico in the Carribean. With a diameter of 305 m it is the largest radio
telescope in the world. Credit: Courtesy of the NAIC - Arecibo Observatory, a facility of the NSF |
Last updated on 10 June 2009