CrowdScience News. Volunteer project Einstein@Home discovers first millisecond pulsar visible only on Gamma Rays
Einstein@Home is a citizen science project where volunteer crunchers sieve throw the data to find continuous gravitational waves (main search) and milliseconds pulsars (secondary search).
Data sources are:
- Nobel prize award winning LIGO research installation
- Arecibo radio observatory.
- Orbital PLANK gamma ray observatory.
Volunteers attach their CPU and GPU computational resources to Einstein@Home using BOINC program. One could also mine Gridcoin cryptocurrency while searching for GW and pulsars.
Check project news and official scientific press-release for more details.
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Sounds a bit like SETI.
Back in my youth it's what you spent your CPU cycles on instead of mining for cryptocurrency....
SETI was the first of the kind. Now in BOINC there are over 100 projects from different fields of knowledge.
So you are mining pulsars detections, right?
Nice analogy!
The difference is that you can't spread pulsar detection among large number of volunteers.
The main goal of the project is to detect continuous gravity waves from sources like pulsars (CPU only application) using data from Laser Interferometer facilities.
The project also runs a pulsar search application which extends the project to GPU and helps maintain credit while the gravity wave search is between experiments. Data for the pulsar search comes from a variety of radio telescopes and recently the Fermi gamma-ray telescope which enabled the detection of this new type of star.
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