http://einstein.extracted.org Welcome Rabadash to Team FreeBSD.  You are among friends.  Keep em blazed! Science 2.0 has a nicely written article about EINSTEIN@HOME; its technologies used for gravitational wave detection and an in-depth view into the complexities and potential of our project.  The article is entitled " Citizen Scientists Discover New Pulsar With Einstein@Home " "..These waves of space-time, however, have never yet been directly observed. So, the phenomena, although it might seem reasonable, remains only a hypothesis. This is where the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory, or LIGO, comes into play. ..." The full article is available from Science 2.0 at [ this URL ]. http://einstein.extracted.org/gravitational-waves/welcome-to-the-freebsd-team-science-2.0 Fri, 03 Sep 2010 17:16:14 -0500 Welcome arfab to Team FreeBSD.  You are among friends.  Keep em blazed! Arecibo binary pulsar (re)discoveries page updated The latest radio pulsar (re)discoveries are available at the usual place . Our count is now at 2 observations of 1 NEW pulsar, 242 detections of 123 different known radio pulsars, including 20 re-observations of 8 different milli-second pulsars. Thank you very much volunteers! 27 Aug 2010 13:40:17 UTC - [ source ] http://einstein.extracted.org/members/welcome-to-the-freebsd-team-discoveries-page-updated Tue, 31 Aug 2010 13:57:24 -0500 Welcome to our team Michael Belle, Nick Schmalenberger, Dr_ZaITo, seti@km.ua, unknwnlgnd, lordnor1981, bG909, dworkin, aubie88, heilkitty! I apologize if I missed anyone.  Welcome - you are all among friends.  Keep your boxes blazed! http://einstein.extracted.org/members/welcome-to-the-freebsd-team Wed, 18 Aug 2010 12:54:57 -0500 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 - [ Bruce Allen ] The NSF (National Science Foundation) has released a video announcement (press release 10-140) of this finding entitled " First genuine astronomical discovery made by German and American Einstein@Home volunteers. ".  This video is available [ here ]. Source [ Forum Thread ] [ NSF ] http://einstein.extracted.org/gravitational-waves/einstein-home-first-discovery Fri, 13 Aug 2010 17:01:33 -0500 Recent Milestones Name Milestone Scott Allendorf 70,000 Memory of SampsonStein 300,000 lordnor1981 200,000 Nick Schmalenberger 5,000 Andy Wright 2,000,000 Nick Schmalenberger 2,500 seti@km.ua 250,000 Nick Schmalenberger 1,000 Scott Allendorf 60,000 Nick Schmalenberger 750 Arecibo pulsar rediscovery count passes 200! In its analysis of radio data from the Arecibo Observatory, Einstein@Home has now passed its 200th re-detection! The 116 different radio pulsars that have been re-detected include 8 milli-second pulsars. More details may be found on the radio pulsar rediscovery page . - [ Bruce Allen ] http://einstein.extracted.org/milestone/einstein-home-team-freebsd-milestones-pulsar-rediscoveries Thu, 12 Aug 2010 20:53:38 -0500 The entire University of Milwaukee Wisconsin computer network will be down for upgrades for 20 hours on June 13th from 0300 to 2300 UTC.  These systems include Einstein@Home. http://einstein.extracted.org/general/einstein-at-home-planned-network-outage Thu, 10 Jun 2010 09:22:59 -0500