Title: Enabling future first detections of black holes, dark matter and neutron stars with continuous gravitational waves

Speaker: Dr. Andrew Miller, NIKHEF, Netherlands

Gmeet link: https://meet.google.com/otq-bxtm-yue

Abstract: The third observing run of advanced LIGO, Virgo and KAGRA brought unprecedented sensitivity towards a variety of quasi-monochromatic, persistent gravitational-wave signals. Continuous waves allow us to probe not just the existence of asymmetrically rotating neutron stars, but also different forms of dark matter, thus showing the wide-ranging astrophysical implications of using a relatively simple signal model. I will describe the major innovations in my research to search for ultralight particle dark matter and planetary-mass primordial black holes, and how we can potentially probe the millisecond pulsar hypothesis for the GeV excess, using continuous-wave methods.