progress on S5 search

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Anonymous
27 Feb 2007 16:03:30 UTC
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    Nothing to report yet.

    Einstein@Home does only the first, most computation-expensive stage of the search, the "results" sent back from the clients still need to be analyzed to gain results in terms of science. Actually we haven't even finished the post-processing of the results from S4 yet; it already took us much longer than expected.

    BM

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    progress on S5 search

    28 Mar 2007 11:43:20 UTC
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      Latest news from VIRGO/EGO site in Tuscany:
      PASADENA, Calif. and CASCINA, Italy-The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) and the Virgo interferometric gravitational-wave detector of the European Gravitational Observatory (EGO) near Pisa, Italy, have agreed to join in a collaborative search for gravitational waves from sources in and far beyond our galaxy. The collaboration will link the three LIGO detectors, which are in the United States, and LIGO's partner, GEO600 in Germany, with the Virgo detector to increase the likelihood of detecting the elusive phenomenon first predicted over 90 years ago by Albert Einstein in his general theory of relativity, and pinpointing the source of the signals.
      Tullio
      PS This will imply a data sharing mechanism after a given date. Maybe we shall crunch also VIRGO data in Einstein@home.

      The LIGO/VIRGO data sharing agreement will begin on May 18, 2007. Starting from that date, LIGO, GEO and VIRGO data will be pooled and jointly analyzed. So yes, I am hopeful that in the future we will also be crunching VIRGO data!

      Bruce

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