Universe@Home

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Universe@Home is a BOINC platform based volunteer computing project that needs your help to run simulations of our Universe.

Why Universe@Home?

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

Copernicus Astronomical Centre of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Project server managed: Krzysztof 'krzyszp' Piszczek.

At the moment there are six sets of data:

Symmetry breaking in merging binary black holes from young massive clusters and isolated binaries Banerjee et al. 2023
Populations of stellar mass Black holes from binary systems Wiktorowicz et al. 2019
Merger of compact stars in the two-families scenario De Pietri et al. 2019
The observed vs total population of ULXs Wiktorowicz et al. 2019
Binary neutron star formation and the origin of GW170817 Belczynki et al. 2018
The origin of the first neutron star -- neutron star merger Belczynki et al. 2018
Double neutron stars: merger rates revisited Chruślińska et al. 2017
Strange quark stars in binaries: formation rates, mergers and explosive phenomena Wiktorowicz et al. 2017
The evolutionary roads leading to low effective spins, high black hole masses, and O1/O2 rates of LIGO/Virgo binary black holes Belczynski et al. 2017
The origin of the Ultraluminous X-ray Sources Wiktorowicz et al. 2017
The Effect of Pair-Instability Mass Loss on Black Hole Mergers Belczynski et al. 2016
Spectroscopy of Kerr black holes with Earth- and space-based interferometers Berti et al. 2016
The first gravitational-wave source from the isolated evolution of two 40-100 Msun stars Belczynski et al. 2016
Nature of the Extreme Ultraluminous X-ray Sources Wiktorowicz et al. 2015