Einstein@Home First Einstein@Home Discovery!

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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. Details are available in a paper published online today (http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/short/science.1195253) by Science. A press-conference webcast (http://www.nsf.gov/) 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 Chris and Helen Colvin (http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/show_user.php?userid=62243), from Ames Iowa and Daniel Gebhardt (http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/show_user.php?userid=194662), Musikinformatik, Universitaet Mainz. Additional information (http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/radiopulsar/html/discovery_page/firstdiscovery.html) about the discovery is available on our web pages. We thank ALL Einstein@Home volunteers for their support, and look forward eagerly to our next discovery. Bruce Allen, Director, Einstein@Home August 12, 2010

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