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On this day 16 years ago, our distributed computing project @einsteinathome began searching for radio pulsars for the first time.

Previously, volunteers were able to donate computing time on their computers to search for gravitational waves from rotating neutron stars (still mysterious remnants of exploded stars).

Starting 24 March 2009, new applications were available that allowed Einstein@Home volunteers to search Arecibo radio telescope data for radio pulsars (special neutron stars) in close binary systems.

➡️ https://www.aei.mpg.de/189883/new-einstein-home-effort-launched-thousands-of-home-computers-to-search-arecibo-data-for-new-radio-pulsars

➡️ https://einsteinathome.org/de/content/einsteinhome-project-has-started-new-search-binary-radio-pulsars-data-arecibo-observatory-pu

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