Speaker
David Keitel
(Universitat de les Illes Balears)
Description
One of the longest-standing science targets of gravitational-wave detectors are spinning deformed neutron stars. While exceedingly weak and hence still eluding detection, "continuous waves" from such individual objects will bring a new regime of gravitational astrophysics where we can keep observing the same source over and over and perform rich multi-messenger studies. They promise an unprecedented probe into the structure, interior, and dynamics of the densest stellar objects in the Universe. This talk will summarise the first results from searches for known pulsars in the O4a observing run and provide an overview of other ongoing LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA searches.
Primary authors
David Keitel
(Universitat de les Illes Balears)
KAGRA Collaboration
LIGO Scientific Collaboration
Virgo Collaboration
