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Shaltev, Miroslav | |||||||
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Albert Einstein Institute, Hannover, Germany - Callinstr 38 - Hannover - Germany - Bulgaria | |||||||
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GW1 |
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Prospects for detection of unknown continuous gravitational-wave sources in the pre- Advanced Detectors era. | |||||
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The first generation of interferometric gravitational wave detectors LIGO and VIRGO are decommissioned in order to assemble the new Advanced Detectors. While currently no new science data is being taken, the search for unknown continuous gravitational-wave sources is still ongoing, e.g. using data from the LIGO S5 and S6 science runs. The enormous computational requirement of the wide band searches is met with the combination of advanced semi-coherent search techniques and the distributed computing environment Einstein@Home, to a degree, sufficient to set upper limits based on the semi-coherent candidates, given the weakness of the expected signal. Recent application of a Mesh Adaptive Direct Search algorithm allows for systematic fully-coherent follow-up of the outliers from the Einstein@Home searches. In this work we discuss the prospects for detection of unknown continuous gravitational-wave sources by fully-coherent follow-up of Einstein@Home candidates. In particular, we target candidates from the S5 science run, selected in a recent analysis which made improved use of global parameter correlations to optimize the semi-coherent stage. |
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