Einstein@Home

Einstein@Home

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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 and GEO gravitational wave detectors. Einstein@Home is a World Year of Physics 2005 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 currently searching the most sensitive 840 hours of data from LIGO's first science run at design sensitivity (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
Einstein@Home Leader for the LIGO Scientific Collaboration.

News items

Apr 11, 2008
The results of the Einstein@Home search on LIGO S4 data have been officially released on the arXiv.org e-print server. This is the first formal scientific publication resulting from the Einstein@Home project. A short public presentation of the results will be given this Sunday at the annual Spring Meeting of the American Physical Society in St. Louis.

Jan 25, 2008
We found that we need to split the current S5R3 run at 800 Hz frequency (read more about it in this forum thread). We are currently ~6 days away from the end of the lower half, which means that we are experiencing the usual workunit-cleanup at the end of a run, with the common raise of downlaod traffic during that time. Dial-up users may want to suspend the project for the next days.

Oct 25, 2007
Einstein@Home will be shutdown for short while today while some updates are made to database. The work will begin at 14:10:00 UTC Oct 25 (today).

Oct 15, 2007
The database problems have been fixed, and the Einstein@Home project is up and running again. Please note that a few contributors may notice some of their results in a strange or incorrect state. Please see this message board thread for more details and to report any problems.

Oct 15, 2007
The E@H project will be down until a problem with the database is fixed. This is taking a bit longer than expected. We expect all the problems to be worked out by Mon Oct 15 23:00 UTC.

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http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/EinsteinAtHome_cgi/cgi

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 © 2008 Bruce Allen for the LIGO Scientific Collaboration