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According to Einstein's General Theory of Relativity, a pulsar that is not perfectly round acts as a gravitational-wave generator, stirring up ripples in the fabric of space-time.
According to Einstein's General Theory of Relativity, a pulsar that is not perfectly round acts as a gravitational-wave generator, stirring up ripples in the fabric of space-time.
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The creation of teams that volunteers can join really creates a sense of community and ethic of group work. Volunteers meet up in teams and collect credit in team (great motivator).
The creation of teams that volunteers can join really creates a sense of community and ethic of group work. Volunteers meet up in teams and collect credit in team (great motivator).
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IDENTIFICATION

Start date : 2005/02/19
  • Beta start date : N/A
  • End date : Still open.
Subject

⇳ Description Einstein@Home is a World Year of Physics 2005 and an International Year of Astronomy 2009 project supported by the American Physical Society (APS) and by a number of international organizations. Einstein@Home uses volounteers computer's idle time to perform physical calculations. ➠ Purpose Search for evidence from LIGO detectors of continuous gravitational wave sources from rapidly spinning non-axisymmetric neutron stars, and radio telescope data searching for radio pulsars. ? Research question "Einstein suggested that we live in a universe full of gravitational waves. He proposed that exploding stars, [[Has research question::colliding black holes and other violent events create waves that alter space and time. We have not detected these waves yet because it requires tools sensitive enough to measure very small effects. It’s like trying to detect a change in the distance from the earth to the sun equal to the width of an atom." (Einstein@Home All Sky Search link) According to Einstein's General Theory of Relativity]], a pulsar that is not perfectly round acts as a gravitational-wave generator, stirring up ripples in the fabric of space-time.

TEAM

MAIN TEAM LOCATION
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Project team page Leader: Institution: Partner institutions: Contact:

USER TASKS

CONTRIBUTION TYPE:
PARTICIPATION TYPOLOGY: distributed intelligence


GAMING GENRE NONE
GAMING ELEMENTS: NONE

COMPUTING
THINKING
SENSING
GAMING

◉ Tasks description

⤯ Interaction with objects

▣ Interface

  • Data type to manipulate: none - N/A
  • interface enjoyment: not cool/attractive
  • Interface usability:

GUIDANCE

GUIDANCE
  • Tutorial: Somewhat
  • Peer to peer guidance: Somewhat
  • Training sequence: Somewhat
FEEDBACK ON
  • Individual performance: Somewhat
  • Collective performance: ✓
  • Research progress: Somewhat

❂ Feedback and guidance description

COMMUNITY

COMMUNITY TOOLS
  • Communication: website, forum
  • Social Network: Twitter, Facebook, other
  • Member profiles:: N/A
  • Member profile elements: photo
NEWS & EVENTS

⏣ Community description

  • Community size (volounteers based) 335 000
  • Role:
  • Interaction form:
  • Has official community manager(s): maybe
  • Has team work N/A
  • Other: Forum : Very active, some threads with over 20,000 views and 700 posts

Social software site : Fairly active

Volunteers are driven by the fantastic results that their research creates, to date 24 pulsars have been found.

The creation of teams that volunteers can join really creates a sense of community and ethic of group work. Volunteers meet up in teams and collect credit in team (great motivator).

  • Community led additions:


Other information

PROJECT

Url:http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/
Start date: 2005/02/19
End date: Still open
Infrastructure: BOINC

TEAM

Official team page:
Leader:




PROJECT DEFINITION

Subject

Natural sciences > Gravitational Physics (physics)

Description

Einstein@Home is a World Year of Physics 2005 and an International Year of Astronomy 2009 project supported by the American Physical Society (APS) and by a number of international organizations. Einstein@Home uses volounteers computer's idle time to perform physical calculations.

Purpose.

Search for evidence from LIGO detectors of continuous gravitational wave sources from rapidly spinning non-axisymmetric neutron stars, and radio telescope data searching for radio pulsars.

Research question.

"Einstein suggested that we live in a universe full of gravitational waves. He proposed that exploding stars, colliding black holes and other violent events create waves that alter space and time. We have not detected these waves yet because it requires tools sensitive enough to measure very small effects. It’s like trying to detect a change in the distance from the earth to the sun equal to the width of an atom." (Einstein@Home All Sky Search link) According to Einstein's General Theory of Relativity, a pulsar that is not perfectly round acts as a gravitational-wave generator, stirring up ripples in the fabric of space-time.

ABOUT PARTICIPANT TASKS

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Grey typology Participation typology Contribution type:
Computing: YES Thinking: NO
Sensing: NO Gaming: NO
Crowdsourcing ☐ Distributed intelligence ☑
Participatory science ☐ Extreme citizen science ☐
Science outreach ☐
Data collection ☐
Data analysis ☐
Data interpretation ☐--------
Gaming
Genre: Gaming elements:
Interface
Data type to manipulate: none - N/A interface enjoyment: not cool/attractive
Interface usability: 		Member profiles::N/A
Member profile elements: photo


ABOUT GUIDANCE AND FEEDBACK

Guidance Feedback on
Tutorial and documentation: SOMEWHAT
Training sequence: SOMEWHAT
Peer to peer guidance: SOMEWHAT
individual performance: Somewhat
collective performance: YES
research progress: YES

.

COMMUNITY

Tools News & Events

Communication: website, forum
Social Network: Twitter, Facebook, other

Main news site: http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/forum_index.php
Frequency of project news updates: N/A
Type of events: MeetUps, other
Frequency of events :

Community description

Community size (volounteers based): 335 000
Role: Interaction form:
Has official community manager(s): maybe
 Has team work N/A

Other information about community: Forum : Very active, some threads with over 20,000 views and 700 posts Social software site : Fairly active

Volunteers are driven by the fantastic results that their research creates, to date 24 pulsars have been found.

The creation of teams that volunteers can join really creates a sense of community and ethic of group work. Volunteers meet up in teams and collect credit in team (great motivator).
Community led additions:

OTHER PROJECT INFORMATION



Yes [[has completion level::Medium]




Yes Gravitational Physics Natural sciences physics Search for evidence from LIGO detectors of continuous gravitational wave sources from rapidly spinning non-axisymmetric neutron stars, and radio telescope data searching for radio pulsars. "Einstein suggested that we live in a universe full of gravitational waves. He proposed that exploding stars, [[Has research question::colliding black holes and other violent events create waves that alter space and time. We have not detected these waves yet because it requires tools sensitive enough to measure very small effects. It’s like trying to detect a change in the distance from the earth to the sun equal to the width of an atom." (Einstein@Home All Sky Search link) According to Einstein's General Theory of Relativity]], a pulsar that is not perfectly round acts as a gravitational-wave generator, stirring up ripples in the fabric of space-time.

Einstein@home


distributed intelligence none - N/A, other: Thinking: no Computing: yes Sensing: no Gaming: no


not cool/attractive

N/A N/A N/A N/A yes yes

N/A photo maybe website, forum Twitter, Facebook, other MeetUps, other

http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/forum index.php 335 000 N/A Forum : Very active, some threads with over 20,000 views and 700 posts Social software site : Fairly active

Volunteers are driven by the fantastic results that their research creates, to date 24 pulsars have been found.

The creation of teams that volunteers can join really creates a sense of community and ethic of group work. Volunteers meet up in teams and collect credit in team (great motivator).


N/A


Medium



Bibliography

BIBLIOGRAPHY


"Einstein@Home All Sky Search". American Physical Society (2006)

➥ http://web.archive.org/web/20060504233801/http://www.einsteinathome.org/about/allsky.html
💬   Archived from the original on 2006-05-04

"Einstein@Home All Sky Search". American Physical Society (2006)

http://web.archive.org/web/20060504233801/http://www.einsteinathome.org/about/allsky.html
Archived from the original on 2006-05-04
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