'Volunteer Computing to Search the Sky for Continuous Gravitational Wave Emission'

Continuous gravitational waves are nearly monochromatic, long-lasting signals. They could come from e.g. fast-rotating non-axisymmetric neutron stars.

The detection of a continuous gravitational wave is still elusive. Compared to the already detected gravitational waves from compact binary coalescences the continuous gravitational wave amplitude at Earth is orders of magnitude smaller. However, since the signal is long-lasting, one can integrate it over many months and increase the signal-to-noise ratio.