Results of the Deepest All-Sky Survey for Continuous Gravitational Waves on LIGO S6 Data Running on the Einstein@Home Volunteer Distributed Computing Project

Authors

B. P. Abbott, California Institute of Technology
K. Gill, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical UniversityFollow
B. Hughey, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
M. J. Szczepańczyk, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical UniversityFollow
Michele Zanolin, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical UniversityFollow
et al.

Submitting Campus

Prescott

Department

Physics and Astronomy

Document Type

Article

Publication/Presentation Date

11-15-2016

Abstract/Description

We report results of a deep all-sky search for periodic gravitational waves from isolated neutron stars in data from the S6 LIGO science run. The search was possible thanks to the computing power provided by the volunteers of the Einstein@Home distributed computing project.

Publication Title

Physical Review D

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.94.102002

Publisher

American Physical Society

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Scholarly Commons Citation

Abbott, B. P., Gill, K., Hughey, B., Szczepańczyk, M. J., Zanolin, M., & al., e. (2016). Results of the Deepest All-Sky Survey for Continuous Gravitational Waves on LIGO S6 Data Running on the Einstein@Home Volunteer Distributed Computing Project. Physical Review D, 94(10). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.94.102002