HEP Colloquia 2023

by Dr Andrew Miller (University of Louvain)

Wednesday 28 Jun 2023, 14:30 → 16:30 Europe/Rome

Aula C (Department of Physics)

Continuous gravitational-wave searches for neutron stars and dark matter

 

The third observing run of advanced LIGO, Virgo and KAGRA brought unprecedented sensitivity towards a variety of quasi-monochromatic, persistent gravitational-wave signals. Continuous waves allow us to probe not just the existence of canonical asymmetrically rotating neutron stars, but also different forms of dark matter, thus showing the wide-ranging astrophysical implications of using a relatively simple signal model. I will describe the major results from the numerous continuous-wave searches that were performed in O3, both inside and outside the LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA collaborations, and show how impactful to multi-messenger physics that they have been.