Einstein@Home New radio pulsar discovered in Arecibo data

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Congratulations to our volunteers James Drews, UW-Madison and juergenstoetzel. Their computers have discovered a new radio pulsar J1859+03, in data from the Arecibo Observatory PALFA survey.Drews (http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/show_user.php?userid=2013) works at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and is the ninth-ranked Einstein@Home volunteer, measured by total computing credits. This is his second pulsar discovery!Further details about these and other Einstein@Home pulsar discoveries can be found on this web page (http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/radiopulsar/html/BRP4_discoveries/), and will be published in due course.Bruce AllenDirector, Einstein@Home

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