TY - JOUR
T1 - OctApps: a library of Octave functions for continuous gravitational-wave data analysis
AU - Wette, Karl
AU - Prix, R
AU - Keitel, David
AU - Pitkin, M
AU - Dreissigacker, Christoph
AU - Whelan, John T.
AU - Leaci, Paola
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - Gravitational waves are minute ripples in spacetime, first predicted by Einsteins general theory of relativity in 1916. Their existence has now been confirmed by the recent success- ful detections of gravitational waves from the collision and merger of binary black holes (Abbott, 2016) and binary neutron stars (Abbott, 2017) in data from the LIGO and Virgo gravitational-wave detectors. Gravitational waves from rapidly-rotating neutron stars, whose shape deviates from perfect axisymmetry, are another potential astrophysi- cal source of gravitational waves, but which so far have not been detected. The search for this type of signals, also known as continuous waves, presents a significant data analysis challenge, as their weak signatures are expected to be buried deep within the instrumen- tal noise of the LIGO and Virgo detectors. For reviews of continuous-wave sources, data analysis techniques, and recent searches of LIGO and Virgo data, see for example Prix (2009) and Riles (2017)
AB - Gravitational waves are minute ripples in spacetime, first predicted by Einsteins general theory of relativity in 1916. Their existence has now been confirmed by the recent success- ful detections of gravitational waves from the collision and merger of binary black holes (Abbott, 2016) and binary neutron stars (Abbott, 2017) in data from the LIGO and Virgo gravitational-wave detectors. Gravitational waves from rapidly-rotating neutron stars, whose shape deviates from perfect axisymmetry, are another potential astrophysi- cal source of gravitational waves, but which so far have not been detected. The search for this type of signals, also known as continuous waves, presents a significant data analysis challenge, as their weak signatures are expected to be buried deep within the instrumen- tal noise of the LIGO and Virgo detectors. For reviews of continuous-wave sources, data analysis techniques, and recent searches of LIGO and Virgo data, see for example Prix (2009) and Riles (2017)
U2 - 10.21105/joss.00707
DO - 10.21105/joss.00707
M3 - Article
VL - 26
SP - 707
JO - The Journal of Open Source Software
JF - The Journal of Open Source Software
IS - 3
ER -