Universe@Home

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

Why Universe@Home?

• why this topic/object of study?

Goal

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Methods

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Project team / Sponsors

Krzysztof 'krzyszp' Piszczek, Server administrator. Ph.D.Rafal Marguzewicz, Web design for BOINC websites MSc. Mateusz Szpakowski, Android and OpenCL developer. Grzegorz Wiktorowicz, Astronomical Observatory of the University of Warsaw. Ph.D. (Astrophysics) Krzysztof Belczynski, Copernicus Astronomical Centre of the Polish Academy of Sciences.

Scientific results

At the moment there are six sets of data:

1. X-ray
2. QuarkStars
3. Black hole database
4. Dynamical formation of XRBs with black holes
5. BH NS formation database files
6. Self-lensing binary predictions

Scientific publications

1. Symmetry breaking in merging binary black holes from young massive clusters and isolated binaries Banerjee et al. 2023
2. Populations of stellar mass Black holes from binary systems Wiktorowicz et al. 2019
3. Merger of compact stars in the two-families scenario De Pietri et al. 2019
4. The observed vs total population of ULXs Wiktorowicz et al. 2019
5. Binary neutron star formation and the origin of GW170817 Belczynki et al. 2018
6. The origin of the first neutron star -- neutron star merger Belczynki et al. 2018
7. Double neutron stars: merger rates revisited Chruślińska et al. 2017
8. Strange quark stars in binaries: formation rates, mergers and explosive phenomena Wiktorowicz et al. 2017
9. 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
10. The origin of the Ultraluminous X-ray Sources Wiktorowicz et al. 2017
11. The Effect of Pair-Instability Mass Loss on Black Hole Mergers Belczynski et al. 2016
12. Spectroscopy of Kerr black holes with Earth- and space-based interferometers Berti et al. 2016
13. The first gravitational-wave source from the isolated evolution of two 40-100 Msun stars Belczynski et al. 2016
14. Nature of the Extreme Ultraluminous X-ray Sources Wiktorowicz et al. 2015