Using LIGO to Treasure Hunt

by Lindsay DeMarchi | Mar 10, 2022 | Daily Paper Summaries

Black holes colliding and neutron stars merging are not the only ways to create GWs! Dergachev and Papa, the authors of today’s paper, searched through the first half of the third LIGO observing run (called “O3a”) for continuous wave signals. They searched every point on the sky and recorded the deepest SNR they were able to search for a CW signal, leaving behind a treasure map (or atlas) for future studies