Speaker
Description
Continuous gravitational waves are long-duration gravitational-wave signals
that still remain to be detected. These signals are expected to be produced
by rapidly-spinning non-axisymmetric neutron stars,
and would provide valuable information on the physics of such compact objects;
additionally, they would allow us to probe the galactic population of
EM-dark neutron stars, whose properties may be different from the observed pulsar.
Other sources include the evaporation of boson clouds around spinning black holes
dark matter matter halos, or binary systems of light primordial black holes.
In this talk, I give a brief overview of the continuous gravitational-wave search
results produced by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration using data from their third
observing run O3, and discuss prospects from the now ongoing fourth observing run O4.
Additionally, I will discuss ongoing developments in blind searches, such as the results
of the latest Kaggle competition for CW signals.
