Arecibo PALFA Survey and Einstein@Home: Binary Pulsar Discovery by Volunteer Computing

@article{Knispel2011AreciboPS,
  title={Arecibo PALFA Survey and Einstein@Home: Binary Pulsar Discovery by Volunteer Computing},
  author={Benjamin Knispel and Patrick Lazarus and Bruce Allen and D. P. Anderson and Carsten Aulbert and N. D. Ramesh Bhat and Oliver Bock and Slavko Bogdanov and Adam Brazier and Fernando Camilo and Sourav Chatterjee and James M. Cordes and Fronefield Crawford and Julia S. Deneva and Gregory Desvignes and Henning Fehrmann and Paulo C. C. Freire and David Hammer and Jason W. T. Hessels and Fredrick A. Jenet and Victoria M. Kaspi and Michael Kramer and Joeri van Leeuwen and Duncan R. Lorimer and Andrew G. Lyne and Bernd Machenschalk and Maura Mclaughlin and Chris Messenger and David J. Nice and Maria Alessandra Papa and H. J. Pletsch and Reinhard Prix and Scott M. Ransom and Xavier Siemens and Ingrid H. Stairs and Ben W. Stappers and Kevin Stovall and Arun Venkataraman},
  journal={BMC Medical Ethics},
  year={2011}
}
We report the discovery of the 20.7 ms binary pulsar J1952+2630, made using the distributed computing project Einstein@Home in Pulsar ALFA survey observations with the Arecibo telescope. Follow-up observations with the Arecibo telescope confirm the binary nature of the system. We obtain a circular orbital solution with an orbital 
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