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Investigating all-sky Frequency Hough performances for neutron stars

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2025-12-09 v1 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

Abstract

Between the estimated population of Neutron Stars (NSs) and the actual number present in the catalogs, there is a huge gap: O(1089^{8-9}) vs O(103^3). 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,βf,\dot{f}, \lambda, \beta). 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 hh value subthreshold for the standard FU procedure (CRthr=5CR_{thr}=5), with encouraging classification results.

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Cite

@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}
}

Comments

24th International Conference on General Relativity and Gravitation (GR24) and 16th Edoardo Amaldi Conference on Gravitational Waves (Amaldi16)