Speaker
Pia Astone
(Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
Description
Following the historic discovery of the signals from coalescing black hole and neutron star (NS) binaries, a new frontier in gravitational wave (GW) research is the detection of sources emitting periodic continuous waves (CWs).
Fast rotating NSs, emit a nearly monochromatic CW signal, whose frequency is proportional to the spin frequency.
An electromagnetic (EM) counterpart of CWs is expected, but EM-silent NSs are also potential CW sources.
The detection of GWs from these sources is a high priority task for the LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA collaborations. The most recent efforts and results, together with future challenges, concentrating on the search for isolated neutron stars, will be presented in this talk.
Primary author
Pia Astone
(Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
