Recent searches for continuous gravitational waves

Abstract

Gravitational wave astronomy opened dramatically in September 2015 with the LIGO discovery of a distant and massive binary black hole coalescence. The more recent discovery of a binary neutron star merger, followed by a gamma ray burst and a kilonova, reinforces the excitement of this new era, in which we may soon see other sources of gravitational waves, including continuous, nearly monochromatic signals. Potential continuous wave (CW) sources include rapidly spinning galactic neutron stars and more exotic possibilities, such as emission from axion Bose Einstein "clouds" surrounding black holes. Recent searches in Advanced LIGO data are presented, and prospects for more sensitive future searches discussed.

24 pages, 5 figures, invited brief review article, to appear in Modern Physics Letters A

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