Between the estimated population of Neutron Stars (NSs) and the actual number present in the catalogs, there is a huge gap: O(108−9) vs O(103). Among the different search techniques for Continuous gravitational waves (CWs), the all-sky could help to reduce the discrepancy. We focus on the all-sky CW pipeline Frequency Hough (FH), which operates without prior knowledge of the source parameters (f,f˙,λ,β). Here, we present a Machine Learning strategy, diverging from the standard follow-up(FU) of the FH pipeline. We study the performance with real interferometer data, until reaching h value subthreshold for the standard FU procedure (CRthr=5), with encouraging classification results.
@article{arxiv.2512.06055,
title = {Investigating all-sky Frequency Hough performances for neutron stars},
author = {Martina Di Cesare and Pia Astone and Rosario De Rosa and David Keitel and Cristiano Palomba and Marco Serra},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.06055},
year = {2025}
}
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24th International Conference on General Relativity and Gravitation (GR24) and 16th Edoardo Amaldi Conference on Gravitational Waves (Amaldi16)