2018/06/06 by Karl Wette, K. Wette, Reinhard Prix +11 · 1 citation
Computer Science · Earth and Planetary Sciences · Physics and Astronomy · #Astronomy #Astrophysics #Binary black hole #Einstein Telescope #General relativity #Gravitational wave #Gravitational-wave astronomy #Gravitational-wave observatory #LIGO #Neutron star #Physics #Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research #Seismic Waves and Analysis #Seismology and Earthquake Studies #Theoretical physics #astro-ph.IM
paper · pdf · doi:10.21105/joss.00707
published as Journal of Open Source Software, 3(26), 707 (2018) · 3 pages
openalex publication_date 2018/06/06 · arxiv created 2018/06/07 · arxiv updated 2018/06/21 · openalex created_date 2020/11/23 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
Gravitational waves are minute ripples in spacetime, first predicted by Einstein's general theory of relativity in 1916. Their existence has now been confirmed by the recent successful detections of gravitational waves from the collision and merger of binary black holes (Abbott, 2016) and binary neutron stars Gravitational waves from rapidly-rotating neutron stars, whose shape deviates from perfect axisymmetry, are another potential astrophysical source of gravitational waves, but which so far have not been detected. The search for this type of signals, also known as continuous waves, presents a significant data analysis challenge, as their weak signatures are expected to be buried deep within the instrumental noise of the LIGO and Virgo detectors. For reviews of continuous-wave sources, data analysis techniques, and recent searches of LIGO and Virgo data, see for example