1 Virgo detektor fal grawitacyjnychPrezentacja na seminarium Katedry Radioastronomii 28 X 2010 r. Kazimierz Borkowski

2 Detektory fal grawitacyjnych na świecie Detektory w naszych grantach: Explorer, Nautilus i Virgo Virgo Mój dyżur przy Virgo (IX 2010) Polska grupa analizy danych (POLGRAW) Skład osobowy i publikacje Źródła ( )

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24 Total members: 256 F. Fidecaro, Virgo status report (STAC meeting, Cascina, May 28, 2009)

25 POLGRAW contributionsto VIRGO ● Data analysis Participation in the all sky search for GWs emitted by rotating NS CW working group Modeling populations and searching for GWs from coalescing NS and BHs including BH binaries with non-negligible spins ● Detector characterization Search for periodic interferences in the data ● Contribute to code simulating working and performance of the VIRGO detector ● Participation in data taking shifts

26 Members of the POLGRAW Kazimierz Borkowski, Centre for Astronomy, UMK, Toruń Robert Budzyński, Instytute of Theoretical Physics,UW, Warsaw Tomasz Bulik, Astronomical Observatory, UW, Warsaw Piotr Jaranowski, Faculty of Physics, UB , Białystok Maciej Kamiński, Astronomical Observatory, UW, Warsaw Witold Kondracki, Institute of Mathematics, PAN, Warsaw Izabela Kowalska, Astronomical Observatory, UW, Warsaw Andrzej Królak, Institute of Mathematics, PAN, Warsaw Maciej Piętka, Faculty of Physics, UB, Białystok Andrzej Pisarski, Faculty of Physics, UB, Białystok Dorota Rosińska, Institute of Astronomy, UZ, Zielona Góra

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28 Refereed PublicationsPia Astone, K. Borkowski, Piotr Jaranowski, (Maciej Piętka), Andrzej Królak Astone P. et al., 2002, Data analysis of gravitational-wave signals from spinning neutron stars. IV. An all-sky search, Phys. Rev. D, 65, Astone P. et al., 2003, All-sky upper limit for gravitational radiation from spinning neutron stars, Class. Quantum Grav., 20, S665–S676. Astone P. et al., 2005, An all-sky search of EXPLORER data, Class. Quantum Grav., 22, S1243–S1254. Astone P. et al., 2006, All-sky search of EXPLORER data: search for coincidences, Class. Quantum Grav., 23, S687–S692. Astone P. et al., 2008, All-sky search of NAUTILUS data, Class. Quantum Grav., 25, Astone P. et al., 2010?, Data analysis of gravitational-wave signals from spinning neutron stars. V. A narrow- band all-sky search, Phys. Rev. D (in preparation).