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Happy 20th bday to Einstein@home, a distributed computing project that searches for neutron stars astrophysics astronomy bbh cent https://img.leopedia.io/DQmR3z
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Einstein@Home discovers a record-breaking pulsar-neutron star system
Einstein@Home discovers a record-breaking pulsar-neutron star system
Recently, a new paper about an exciting discovery from our radio pulsar search has been published. In “Einstein@Home Discovery of a Double Neutron Star Binary in the PALFA Survey” we report together with an international team the most massive double neutron star system ever observed.
Read more about this topic in the publication itself, or in our accompanying press release.
Cheers, Benjamin
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Searching for Continuous Gravitational Waves
Nerd alert: Freaking Out Status
OK. So. I use an app called BOINC that allows science teams to use your device, while it is sleeping or otherwise not busy, for computation. There are a ton of projects to choose from, teams to join, and you should all download it and use it because SCIENCE NEEDS YOU and you’re sleeping anyway, you big lazy human person.
Anyway, one of the projects is Einstein@Home that is focused on finding gravitational waves.
Sometimes specific devices (and users) are linked to major findings and they post updates if that happens. I always check for myself but nothing.
BUT I got THIS email:
Congratulations! *You’ve been chosen as the Einstein@Home user of the day! Your profile will be featured on the Einstein@Home website for the next 24 hours*
So I havent helped find any gravitational waves but its ok because I AM SO FUCKING STOKED YOU GUYS IT’S EMBARRASSING.
I think, I’m doing pretty good, no? *smiles* Especially when I say: It’s all done from a simple laptop, and android phone. ;-)
Why don't you give it a whirl? ;-)
I might, or might not decide to reblog this one often, just to compare scores over time. ;-) There’s only one thing though, why can’t they properly encode my last name? :-)
Astronomy at Home – Brian Koberlein
Great article on Einstein@Home by Brian Koberlein: Astronomy at Home – Brian Koberlein.
This is interesting in particular:
The team used the distributed computing network to analyze x-ray data from the Fermi gamma ray telescope. From this they found four…
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Neutron stars in the computer cloud
The combined computing power of 200,000 private PCs helps astronomers take an inventory of the Milky Way. The Einstein@Home project connects home and office PCs of volunteers from around the world to a global supercomputer. Using this computer cloud, an international team lead by scientists from the Max Planck Institutes for Gravitational Physics and for Radio Astronomy analysed archival data from the CSIRO Parkes radio telescope in Australia. Using new search methods, the global computer network discovered 24 pulsars – extraordinary stellar remnants with extreme physical properties. These can be used as testbeds for Einstein's general theory of relativity and could help to complete our picture of the pulsar population.
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