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EINSTEIN@HOME Discovers a New Radio Pulsar from the Arecibo Observatory

27 October, 2011 17:04 CST6CDT

I am delighted to announce that Einstein@Home has discovered a third new radio pulsar in data from the Arecibo Observatory. This is the first Einstein@Home discovery in Arecibo data taken with the new "Mock" back-end spectrometer. The pulsar is unusually interesting, as is a short-period (millisecond) pulsar in a binary system. Further details about the newly-discovered pulsar can be found on this web page, and will be published in due course. Congratulations to our volunteers, and thank you for contributing to Einstein@Home! Bruce Allen Director, Einstein@Home

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Einstein@Home currently processes PALFA Mock spectrometer data from Arecibo Observatory. This search runs is called "BRP4" (short for Binary Radio Pulsar search #4). It uses the computing power donated by volunteers from all over the world to search these data for radio pulsars in binary orbits. Thanks to the enormous amount of donated computing power Einstein@Home conducts the search with the highest sensitivity to pulsars in very tight binary systems.

[http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/radiopulsar/html/BRP4_discoveries/]

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For those of you wondering what the EINSTEIN@HOME Project is:

Einstein@Home is a program that uses your computer's idle time to search for spinning neutron stars (also called pulsars) using data from the LIGO gravitational wave detector. It also searches for radio pulsars in binary systems, using data from the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. Einstein@Home is a World Year of Physics 2005 and an International Year of Astronomy 2009 project supported by the American Physical Society (APS) and by a number of international organizations.

My name is Andy Wright - the founder, but really the creator of Team FreeBSD. If you want me to add any links, or have any questions or inclinations for such things related to our group (or to just say hi) - send me an e-mail: einstein@extracted.org or Skype name: extracted

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