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<b>We are delighted to announce that Einstein@Home has made its first discovery: a radio pulsar, found in data from the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico.</b>
Details are available in a <a href="http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/short/science.1195253" rel="nofollow">paper published online today</a> by Science.
A <a href="http://www.nsf.gov/" rel="nofollow">press-conference webcast</a> about this first discovery is also available.
The name of the pulsar is PSR J2007+2722. It is a 40.8 Hz isolated pulsar, 17,000 light years distant in the plane of the Galaxy, and is most likely a Disrupted Recycled Pulsar (DRP). If so, it is the fastest DRP yet discovered.
The Einstein@Home volunteers whose computers found the pulsar with the highest significance are <a href="http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/show_user.php?userid=62243" rel="nofollow"> Chris and Helen Colvin</a>, from Ames Iowa and <a href="http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/show_user.php?userid=194662" rel="nofollow">Daniel Gebhardt</a>, Musikinformatik, Universitaet Mainz.
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Additional information</a> about the discovery is available on our web pages.
We thank ALL Einstein@Home volunteers for their support, and look forward eagerly to our <i>next</i> discovery.
Bruce Allen, Director, Einstein@Home
August 12, 2010
http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/forum_thread.php?id=8306