Session M10: Gravitational Waves from Neutron Stars and Stochastic Backgrounds

3:30 PM–5:06 PM, Sunday, April 13, 2008
Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), - St. Louis A

Sponsoring Units: GGR DAP
Chair: Keith Riles, University of Michigan

Abstract: M10.00003 : Results from the Einstein@Home search of the LIGO S4 data set

3:54 PM–4:06 PM

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Author:

  Bruce Allen
    (Albert Einstein Institute, Hannover, Germany \& U. Wisconsin -- Milwaukee)

We present the results of an all-sky blind search for continuous gravitational waves generated by rapidly-spinning neutron stars. The search was carried out using 510 hours of data from LIGO's fourth science run S4, using computer time donated by the general public. Since Einstein@Home was launched in 2005, more than 100,000 volunteers have contributed over 100 million CPU hours to the project.