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We characterize and present the details of the follow-up method used on the most significant outliers of the Hough Einstein@Home all-sky search for continuous gravitational waves arXiv:1207.7176. This follow-up method is based on the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-07-02 Miroslav Shaltev , Paola Leaci , Maria Alessandra Papa , Reinhard Prix

The first all-sky-all-frequency (ASAF) radiometer search was conducted using data from the first three observing runs of the Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo detectors. The significance of this search lies in its fast and unmodeled…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-25 Arindam Sharma , Deepali Agarwal , Sanjit Mitra

Continuous gravitational waves have the potential to transform gravitational wave astronomy and yield fresh insights into astrophysics, nuclear and particle physics, and condensed matter physics. We evaluate their detectability by combining…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-05 Benjamin J. Owen , Binod Rajbhandari

Pulsars are promising targets for the first detection of continuous gravitational waves (CWs) by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) Collaboration. Targeted searches leverage critical information derived from continued monitoring of pulsars related…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-27 Luca D'Onofrio , Rosario De Rosa , Paola Leaci , Cristiano Palomba

A new approach to the problem of gravitational waves detection based on simultaneous timing of several pulsars and subsequent expansion of the post-fit timing data into components of different spectral kind (with different spectral indices)…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Alexander E. Rodin

Coherent WaveBurst is a generic, multidetector gravitational wave burst search based on the excess power approach. The coherent WaveBurst algorithm currently employed in the all-sky short-duration gravitational wave burst search uses a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-04-12 Dixeena Lopez , V. Gayathri , Archana Pai , Ik Siong Heng , Chris Messenger , Sagar Kumar Gupta

Rapidly rotating neutron stars are promising sources of continuous gravitational wave radiation for the LIGO and Virgo interferometers. The majority of neutron stars in our galaxy have not been identified with electromagnetic observations.…

Fully coherent searches (over realistic ranges of parameter space and year-long observation times) for unknown sources of continuous gravitational waves are computationally prohibitive. Less expensive hierarchical searches divide the data…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-27 Holger J. Pletsch , Bruce Allen

Gravitational waves from binary neutron star post-merger remnants have the potential to uncover the physics of the hot nuclear equation of state. These gravitational-wave signals are high frequency ($\sim$ kHz) and short lived…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-31 Fiona H. Panther , Paul D. Lasky

The search for signatures of transient, unmodelled gravitational-wave (GW) bursts in the data of ground-based interferometric detectors typically uses `excess-power' search methods. One of the most challenging problems in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 P. Ajith , M. Hewitson , J. R. Smith , K. A. Strain

We report results of a public data-analysis challenge, hosted on the open data-science platform Kaggle, to detect simulated continuous gravitational-wave signals (CWs). These are weak signals from rapidly spinning neutron stars that remain…

Targeted searches of continuous waves from spinning neutron stars normally assume that the frequency of the gravitational wave signal is at a given known ratio with respect to the rotational frequency of the source, e.g. twice for an…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Pia Astone , Alberto Colla , Sabrina D'Antonio , Sergio Frasca , Cristiano Palomba , Roberto Serafinelli

Among promising sources of gravitational waves are long-lived nearly periodic signals produced by rotating, asymmetric neutron stars. Depending on the astrophysical scenario, the sources of asymmetry may have thermal, viscous, elastic…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-05 Magdalena Sieniawska , Michał Bejger , Andrzej Królak

Continuous gravitational waves signals, emitted by asymmetric spinning neutron stars, are among the main targets of current detectors like Advanced LIGO and Virgo. In the case of sources, like pulsars, which rotational parameters are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-06-28 S. Mastrogiovanni , P. Astone , S. D'Antonio , S. Frasca , G. Intini , P. Leaci , A. Miller , C. Palomba , O. J. Piccinni , A. Singhal

Ground-based gravitational wave laser interferometers (LIGO, GEO-600, Virgo and Tama-300) have now reached high sensitivity and duty cycle. We present a Bayesian evidence-based approach to the search for gravitational waves, in particular…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 John Veitch , Alberto Vecchio

The search for gravitational waves generated by the inspiral phase of binaries of light compact objects holds significant promise in testing the existence of primordial black holes and/or other exotic objects. In this paper, we present a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-08 M. Andrés-Carcasona , O. J. Piccinni , M. Martínez , Ll. M. Mir

Continuous nanohertz gravitational waves from individual supermassive black hole binaries may be detectable with pulsar timing arrays. A novel search strategy is developed, wherein intrinsic achromatic spin wandering is tracked…

Efficient searches for gravitational waves from compact binary coalescence are crucial for gravitational wave observations. We present a proof-of-concept for a method that utilizes a neural network taking an SNR map, a stack of SNR time…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-16 Takahiro S. Yamamoto , Kipp Cannon , Hayato Motohashi , Hiroaki W. H. Tahara

We describe a novel, very fast and robust, directed search incoherent method for periodic gravitational waves (GWs) from neutron stars in binary systems. As directed search, we assume the source sky position to be known with enough…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-07 Paola Leaci , Pia Astone , Sabrina D'Antonio , Sergio Frasca , Cristiano Palomba , Ornella Piccinni , Simone Mastrogiovanni

The sensitivity of continuous gravitational-wave (CW) searches for unknown neutron stars (NSs) is limited by their parameter space breadth. To fit within reasonable computing budgets, hierarchical schemes are used to identify interesting…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-19 Lorenzo Mirasola , Rodrigo Tenorio