Einstein@Home

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Einstein@Home is a volunteer distributed computing project that needs your help to find Neutron Stars via their electromagnetic and gravitational wave emission.

Why Einstein@Home?

During a lunchtime conversation in 1999, Bruce Allen and a friend were discussing an article that they read that day in The Los Angeles Times about SETI@home. The thought occurred this would be a great way to get computer cycles to tackle the data analysis problem that they had, but concluded that there would be very little public interest and the topic was dropped.

In 2004, the idea was revisited due to the upcoming event World Year of Physics 2005. The American Physical Society offered publicity and volunteers and after eventually connecting with David Anderson, who spread the excitement of BOINC, Einstein@Home was launched in February of 2005.

Goal

• summarize the objectives and challenges which the project addresses, before jumping into details

Methods

• always including "why BOINC"?

Einstein@Home interactive screensaver showing some known pulsars and the Supernova that they came from

• impactful final statement

Project team / Sponsors

Bruce Allen. University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute) Hanover, Germany.

See the list of contributors

Scientific discoveries

https://einsteinathome.org/science/discoveries

Scientific publications

https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Einstein@Home