A search for gravitational waves from a nearby neutron star

Document #:

LIGO-G1000786-v1

Document type:

G - Presentations (eg Graphics)

Abstract:

Rapidly spinning neutron stars in our Galactic neighborhood are promising sources of quasi-monochromatic continuous gravitational waves observable by the current LIGO detectors. I describe a search done on the LIGO S5 data, looking for an isolated neutron star hypothesized to be at a distance of about 100 parsecs. This kind of search is computationally bound and is made possible by the implementation of barycentric resampling, which is described here as well.

Files in Document:

• ThesisDefense2.ppt (21.0 MB)

Topics:

• Continuous Wave
• Data analysis software

Authors:

• Pinkesh Patel