Einstein@home
PROJECT
Url:http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/
Start date: 2005/02/19
End date: Still open
Infrastructure: BOINC
TEAM
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PROJECT DEFINITION
Subject
Natural sciences > Gravitational Physics (physics)
Description
Einstein@Home is a World Year of Physics 2005 and an International Year of Astronomy 2009 project supported by the American Physical Society (APS) and by a number of international organizations. Einstein@Home uses volounteers computer's idle time to perform physical calculations.
Purpose.
Search for evidence from LIGO detectors of continuous gravitational wave sources from rapidly spinning non-axisymmetric neutron stars, and radio telescope data searching for radio pulsars.
Research question.
"Einstein suggested that we live in a universe full of gravitational waves. He proposed that exploding stars, colliding black holes and other violent events create waves that alter space and time. We have not detected these waves yet because it requires tools sensitive enough to measure very small effects. It’s like trying to detect a change in the distance from the earth to the sun equal to the width of an atom." (Einstein@Home All Sky Search link) According to Einstein's General Theory of Relativity, a pulsar that is not perfectly round acts as a gravitational-wave generator, stirring up ripples in the fabric of space-time.
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COMMUNITY
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Communication: website, forum |
Main news site: http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/forum_index.php |
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Community size (volounteers based): 335 000 |
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Other information about community: Forum : Very active, some threads with over 20,000 views and 700 posts Social software site : Fairly active
Volunteers are driven by the fantastic results that their research creates, to date 24 pulsars have been found.
The creation of teams that volunteers can join really creates a sense of community and ethic of group work. Volunteers meet up in teams and collect credit in team (great motivator).
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OTHER PROJECT INFORMATION
Yes [[has completion level::Medium]
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Gravitational Physics
Natural sciences
physics
Search for evidence from LIGO detectors of continuous gravitational wave sources from rapidly spinning non-axisymmetric neutron stars, and radio telescope data searching for radio pulsars.
"Einstein suggested that we live in a universe full of gravitational waves. He proposed that exploding stars, [[Has research question::colliding black holes and other violent events create waves that alter space and time. We have not detected these waves yet because it requires tools sensitive enough to measure very small effects. It’s like trying to detect a change in the distance from the earth to the sun equal to the width of an atom." (Einstein@Home All Sky Search link)
According to Einstein's General Theory of Relativity]], a pulsar that is not perfectly round acts as a gravitational-wave generator, stirring up ripples in the fabric of space-time.
Einstein@home
distributed intelligence none - N/A, other: Thinking: no Computing: yes Sensing: no Gaming: no
not cool/attractive
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N/A photo maybe website, forum Twitter, Facebook, other MeetUps, other
http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/forum index.php 335 000 N/A Forum : Very active, some threads with over 20,000 views and 700 posts Social software site : Fairly active
Volunteers are driven by the fantastic results that their research creates, to date 24 pulsars have been found.
The creation of teams that volunteers can join really creates a sense of community and ethic of group work. Volunteers meet up in teams and collect credit in team (great motivator).
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| BIBLIOGRAPHY |
"Einstein@Home All Sky Search". American Physical Society (2006)
- http://web.archive.org/web/20060504233801/http://www.einsteinathome.org/about/allsky.html
- Archived from the original on 2006-05-04