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Active Projects - Astronomy, Physics & Chemistry

Einstein@Home is a program that searches through the data from the LIGO gravitational wave detector for spinning neutron stars (also called pulsars). In simple terms, this is done by breaking up gravitational waves into small pieces then comparing them against a model that contains a pulsar to see if they are similar. This project uses the BOINC Platform.

Another search method that is being employed is the analysis of radio wave data gathered from the same telescope used by the SETI@Home project called the Arecibo telescope located in Puerto Rico. Pulsars have a certain effect on the speed of radio waves which can be detected through analysis with this program.
 
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