Einstein@Home

Searches data from gravitational wave detectors and telescopes for the weak signals of spinning neutron stars.

Directed by Bruce Allen, who is also the director of the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Hannover and a professor of physics at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Your computer searches for pulsars, spinning neutron stars, in data from the LIGO gravitational wave detectors, the MeerKAT radio telescope, the Fermi gamma-ray satellite and older data of the Arecibo radio telescope.

The long-term goal is the first direct detection of gravitational waves from spinning neutron stars. Volunteers of the project have so far found more than 90 new neutron stars. The software runs on Windows, Linux, macOS and Android.