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First report on the S3 analysis - 2005/09/11
Final report on the S3 analysis - 2007/03/28
Report on the S4 analysis - 2008/05/16
(published in Physical Review D)
Report on the first S5 analysis - 2009/05/17
Info on the Arecibo Radio Pulsar Search - 2009/06/23

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Bjoern Henke
I'm 28 years old and live in Germany. I'm working as a software developer and programming is and ever was one of my biggest hobbies.

Thank you for your interest in Einstein@Home!

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.

If you would like to take part, please follow the "Join Einstein@Home" instructions to the left. Einstein@Home is available for Windows, Linux and Macintosh OS X computers.

Einstein@Home is now carrying out a search of data from LIGO's first science run at design sensitivity (S5). The current analysis (S5R4/5) uses 5280 hours of data from the later (and most sensitive) part of S5. For more information, please see the "Science information" section on the left of this page.

Bruce Allen
Professor of Physics, U. of Wisconsin - Milwaukee and Director, MPI for Gravitational Physics, Hannover
Einstein@Home Leader for the LIGO Scientific Collaboration

News items

June 39, 2009
The Einstein@Home project suffered a fileserver crash and has been offline for the last few days as a result. The project is finally online again and should be back to normal soon.

June 23, 2009
Webpages describing the new Einstein@Home search for binary pulsars in Arecibo radio data are online now. Follow this link to learn more about radio pulsars, how our new search works, and how it can help us searching for gravitational waves.

June 9, 2009
The results of the first Einstein@Home search of (early) S5 LIGO data have been released on the arXiv.org e-print server.

May 26, 2009
Einstein@Home participants might enjoy watching a new series of short interviews with prominent experts in General Relativity, about black holes and other strange phenomena. This can be found at the ScienceFace web site.

Apr 27, 2009
Over the weekend the VPN problems were fixed, so the Arecibo Binary Radio Pulsar search is now also running correctly and sending out new work. So Einstein@Home has completely recovered and is back in full operation again!

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This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under Grant NSF-0200852 and by the Max Planck Gesellschaft (MPG). Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the investigators and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NSF or the MPG.

Copyright © 2009 Bruce Allen for the LIGO Scientific Collaboration