Speaker
Description
Continuous gravitational waves are long-duration gravitational-wave signals
that still remain to be detected.
These signals are expected to be produced by rapidly-spinning
non-axisymmetric neutron stars, and would provide valuable information on the
physics of such compact objects; additionally, they would allow us to probe the
galactic population of EM-dark neutron stars, whose properties may be different
from the pulsar population observed through electromagnetic means.
Other sources include the evaporation of boson clouds around spinning black holes,
or binary systems of light compact objects such as planetary-mass black holes.
In this talk, I give a brief overview of the continuous gravitational-wave search
results produced by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration using data from their third
observing run O3, and discuss prospects from the now ongoing
fourth observing run O4.
| Collaboration / Activity | LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA |
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