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April 30 at 4PM in the 2nd Floor Conference Room in Dearborn Speaker: Benjamin Knispel (AEI Hannover) “Searching Radio Pulsars in Tight Binaries with Einstein@Home and PALFA” The distributed computing project Einstein@Home that uses otherwise wasted CPU cycles on personal computers all around the globe to search for gravitational waves has recently joined forces with the PALFA search for pulsars with the Arecibo Telescope. A new search for radio pulsars in very tight binaries with orbital periods as low as 11 minutes is carried out in parallel to the existing search. In this talk I give an overview over Einstein@Home and the PALFA search, briefly review existing searches for binary pulsars, describe the new analysis pipeline and show some first results: redetections of known pulsars. |