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Using continuous gravitational waves to detect neutron stars, black holes, and dark matter
Andrew Miller (UClouvain)

Continuous gravitational waves are quasi-infinite, quasi-monochromatic signals that are expected from a variety of interesting sources, namely asymmetrically rotating neutron stars, inspiraling primordial black hole binaries, and depleting axion clouds around black holes. Each of these sources results from different physics, and yet could leave remarkably similar (but still distinct) imprints on the LIGO-Virgo interferometers. In this talk we will explain how gravitational waves are emitted by these sources, and what the implications of a detection would be for each of them. We will also describe how the same data analysis methods can be tuned specifically to each of these sources. Additionally, the most recent upper limits on the gravitational wave emission from these sources will be presented.