New Mexico

Description

Welcome to the New Mexico Einstein@home team.

Albert Einstein predicted that very massive objects in space like black holes, pulsars, and very dense stars produce gravity waves that alter time and space. This project attempts to detect those gravity waves.

The Einstein@home project is very successful and frequently discovers new pulsars using the computing power of it members personal computers. The einstein@home project searches through data obtained from the Arecibo Radio Telescope, the LIGO gravitational-wave detectors, and the Fermi gamma-ray satellite.

A pulsar is a pulsating star. It is a small, dense star that emits brief intense bursts of visible radiation, radio waves, and X-rays. A pulsar is created when a star explodes in a supernova. After the explosion, the remnant of the star is a relatively small (smaller than than the Earth) but very dense star called a neutron star. These stars spin very fast, and sometimes a magnetic pole occasionally faces the direction of the Earth as it spins. It is sort of like the beam of a light house, that rotates and sends a flash of light as the beam crosses your field of view.

When your computer detects makes a new discovery, you receive a message and an acknowledgement of your discovery. You will be credited and you name will appear on the web page as well as in news articles about the discovery.

In the true spirit of science, knowledge gained is shared with the world to help us all learn and understand the universe.

You too can contribute to a worthwhile scientific project that shares its findings with the world for the benefit of all. Every bit of computing power helps, so put your computer to work for the benefit of everyone. Come on and help us out. Please join our team. Everyone is welcome to join the New Mexico team.