Einstein@Home scopre una nuova pulsar!

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Codesto progetto ha scoperto una nuova Pulsar, grazie al contributo di tutti i volontari che donano la loro potenza per la scienza!

First Einstein@Home Discovery!
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 12 Aug 2010 18:01:58 UTC · Commenta

Einstein@home è un progetto che studia le onde gravitazionali analizzando i dati di alcuni osservatori come LIGO e altri e sfrutta i dati del radiotelescopio di Arecibo per trovare nuove Pulsar, migliorare i metodi di scoperta e avendo nuove pulsar, studiar meglio le onde gravitazionali

Qua il link dedicato a questa scoperta http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/radiopu...discovery.html

E qua per maggiori informazioni su cosa fa Einstein@home perchè la mia riassunta spiegazione è poco completa http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/radiopulsar/html/index.php

Una scoperta resa possibile grazie al NOSTRO aiuto

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