Publication Date:
2010-08-14
Description:
Einstein@Home aggregates the computer power of hundreds of thousands of volunteers from 192 countries to mine large data sets. It has now found a 40.8-hertz isolated pulsar in radio survey data from the Arecibo Observatory taken in February 2007. Additional timing observations indicate that this pulsar is likely a disrupted recycled pulsar. PSR J2007+2722's pulse profile is remarkably wide with emission over almost the entire spin period; the pulsar likely has closely aligned magnetic and spin axes. The massive computing power provided by volunteers should enable many more such discoveries.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Knispel, B -- Allen, B -- Cordes, J M -- Deneva, J S -- Anderson, D -- Aulbert, C -- Bhat, N D R -- Bock, O -- Bogdanov, S -- Brazier, A -- Camilo, F -- Champion, D J -- Chatterjee, S -- Crawford, F -- Demorest, P B -- Fehrmann, H -- Freire, P C C -- Gonzalez, M E -- Hammer, D -- Hessels, J W T -- Jenet, F A -- Kasian, L -- Kaspi, V M -- Kramer, M -- Lazarus, P -- van Leeuwen, J -- Lorimer, D R -- Lyne, A G -- Machenschalk, B -- McLaughlin, M A -- Messenger, C -- Nice, D J -- Papa, M A -- Pletsch, H J -- Prix, R -- Ransom, S M -- Siemens, X -- Stairs, I H -- Stappers, B W -- Stovall, K -- Venkataraman, A -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2010 Sep 10;329(5997):1305. doi: 10.1126/science.1195253. Epub 2010 Aug 12.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Albert-Einstein-Institut, Max-Planck-Institut fur Gravitationsphysik, D-30167 Hannover, Germany. benjamin.knispel@aei.mpg.de〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20705813" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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