Search for Gravitational Waves from a nearby neutron star using barycentric resampling

Document #:

LIGO-P1000096-v1

Document type:

P - Publications

Abstract:

Rapidly spinning neutron stars in our Galactic neighborhood are promising sources of quasi-monochromatic continuous gravitational waves observable by the current LIGO detectors. I describe a search done on the LIGO S5 data, looking for an isolated neutron star hypothesized to be at a distance of about 100 parsecs. This kind of search is computationally bound and is made possible by the implementation of barycentric resampling, which is described here as well. I also describe the work done at the Hanford LIGO site, while taking data for the Astrowatch program.

Files in Document:

• Thesis copy as submitted to the thesis committee before the defense. (ppatel_thesis.pdf, 3.7 MB)

Topics:

• Continuous Wave
• Data analysis software

Authors:

• Pinkesh Patel