Arecibo Binary Pulsar Search == gravitational wave search ?

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On the other hand, you're probably attracting new people like me who saw the pulsar searching press release and signed up for E@H.

No doubt! Nice to hear that. :-)

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Of course I'm a rare bird pulsar weenie (did my Ph.D. in 1991 on millisecond pulsars with data from Arecibo, so this hit really close to home).

Please do tell us of your research, if you are so inclined ... :-)

[ Now, let me guess. Someone is going to ask if one can do PALFA, but not the GW units .... :-) ]

What scientist can resist pontificating on his work? My thesis is titled, "High Precision Timing of Millisecond Pulsars" and my advisor was the fabulous Joe Taylor (of PSR 1913+16 fame). In fact, one of my first papers was the first use of the timing residuals results from PSR B1937+21 to constrain the cosmic GW background (Stinebring, Ryba, Taylor, and Romani, 1990, Phys Rev Lett, 65, p. 285). I also studied a couple other binary millisecond pulsars (B1855+09 and B1957+20), and was involved in some of the early discussions of developing a pulsar timing array to look for gravitational waves.

Now I do a lot of defense R&D, primarily with GPS (another great technology) but I'll always have a spot for pulsar research. Maybe I'll buy a Nvidia board just to help out E@H/PALFA (games? you mean to tell me they're for games?).

Also I'm a proud member of the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists.