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EINSTEIN@HOME First Discovery & NSF Video Announcement

13 August, 2010 17:01 CST6CDT

We are delighted to announce that Einstein@Home has made its first discovery: a radio pulsar, found in data from the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. Details are available in a paper published online today by Science. If you don't have access to Science, the manuscript is also in the arXiv preprint archive (use the PDF link in the top right corner). A press-conference webcast about this first discovery is also available. The name of the pulsar is PSR J2007+2722. It is a 40.8 Hz isolated pulsar, 17,000 light years distant in the plane of the Galaxy, and is most likely a Disrupted Recycled Pulsar (DRP). If so, it is the fastest DRP yet discovered. The Einstein@Home volunteers whose computers found the pulsar with the highest significance are Chris and Helen Colvin, from Ames Iowa and Daniel Gebhardt, Musikinformatik, Universitaet Mainz. Additional information about the discovery is available on our web pages. We thank ALL Einstein@Home volunteers for their support, and look forward eagerly to our next discovery. Bruce Allen, Director, Einstein@Home August 12, 2010 - [Bruce Allen]

The NSF (National Science Foundation) has released a video announcement (press release 10-140) of this finding entitled "First genuine astronomical discovery made by German and American Einstein@Home volunteers.".  This video is available [here].

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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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