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Science information and progress reports

• First report on the S3 analysis - 2005/09/11
• Final report on the S3 analysis - 2007/03/28
• Paper on the S4 analysis - 2008/04/10
  (accepted for publication, Physical Review D)

Work for Einstein@Home

• Sysadmin position at U. Wisconsin - Milwaukee
• Postdoc position at U. Wisconsin - Milwaukee
• Student assistants at AEI Hannover (English)
• Student assistants at AEI Hannover (Deutsch)

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• einsteinathome.org - APS webpage
• Einstein Online
• Black Hole Hunter (Game) - New link

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 just in the process of completing its second search (S5R2/S5R3) of data from LIGO's first science run at design sensitivity (S5). We are also beginning a new search (S5R4) using 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

Dec 23, 2008
A fileserver crashed today and caused several problems you may have noticed. Everything should be working again now.

Dec 13, 2008
The Einstein@Home project is starting limited public testing of a new pulsar search, which uses PALFA radio data from the Arecibo radio telescope. More information about this search will be released in the coming weeks. Message board threads have been started for scientific information about the search and for problems and bug reports concerning the new application. We will post another front page news item when we formally launch this new search on a larger scale.

Dec 10, 2008
The project will be shut down for database maintenance today at 15:00 UTC for about an hour.

Nov 20, 2008
In the next days (probably Monday next week) we will begin testing a new scheduler code. We'll start a specific thread on the Problems and Bug Reports message board to report problems with this new scheduler when we actually start testing. Please prepare for some irregularities while we tune the new setup.

Sep 25, 2008
We have completed processing the S5R3 workunits. S5R3 was the first search using the combined F-stat plus Hough method, which is currently the most sensitive search technique that is known. This search used approximately one year of data from LIGO's first science run (S5) at design sensitivity. The S5R3 post-processing is being led by Dr. Maria Alessandra Papa, one of the inventors of the search technique.

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