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Einstein@Home probes the Galactic center gamma-ray glow

The results from an @einsteinathome@academiccloud.social search for a proposed, hidden millisecond pulsar population near the center of the Milky Way have been published in The Astrophysical Journal today.

The results include the discovery of four previously unknown gamma-ray pulsars.

📄 Publication: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ae0b5c

💬 News item on our homepage: https://einsteinathome.org/de/content/einsteinhome-probes-galactic-center-gamma-ray-glow

Many thanks to all of our volunteers whose computing time contributions made this work possible!

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🎉 A new paper with Einstein@Home gamma-ray pulsar discoveries 🔭

The new publication “Einstein@Home Searches for Gamma-ray Pulsars in the Inner Galaxy” was accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal and is posted on the arXiv preprint server today.

📄 https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21307

The international science team reports the discovery of four previously unknown gamma-ray pulsars towards the direction of the Galactic Center. Most likely the four discoveries are foreground sources from the Galactic disk.

🙏 We thank our volunteers, without the support of whom this research could not have happened.

All of our publications and PhD theses related to the project at https://einsteinathome.org/science/publications.

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Our research at the Pulsar 2025 Sardinia conference

At the end of September, scientists from the @mpi_grav@academiccloud.social in Hannover presented their latest results at the Pulsar 2025 Sardinia conference. They gave a total of five talks, two lightning talks, and presented a poster.

➡️ https://sites.google.com/inaf.it/pulsar2025/home

Among other things, they reported on the latest news from Einstein@Home and our Zooniverse project “Einstein@Home: Pulsar Seekers”. In the Zooniverse project, volunteers classify pulsar candidates identified by Einstein@Home, helping to find new pulsars and distinguish them from terrestrial disturbances such as radio frequency interference.

➡️ https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/rsengar/einstein-at-home-pulsar-seekers

Thanks to all of our citizen scientists, several promising pulsar candidates have been found. Our team is now investigating these further using additional observations and public radio telescope data.

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Two new papers from our team with the latest Einstein@Home science results 🎉

Our team has just published two new papers on the arXiv preprint servers, reporting on the latest results from analyzing public @LIGO@scicomm.xyz data from the third observing run (O3).

📄 “Einstein@Home all-sky "bucket" search for continuous gravitational waves in LIGO O3 public data” (https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16423)

📄 “High-frequency continuous gravitational waves searched in LIGO O3 public data with Einstein@Home” (https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20073)

🙏 We thank our volunteers, without the support of whom this research could not have happened.

All of our publications and PhD theses related to the project ➡️ https://einsteinathome.org/de/science/publications

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