Bulletin No. 1 - Sep 14, 06
Dear colleague,
Would you be interested in attending a one-day meeting (Nov 2 06 - MIT
Boston [the original date selected, Nov 3, clashed with a meeting of
SKA]) with people from the ground-based gravitational wave community
to help us decide priorities for searches for continuous gravitational
wave signals? Sources of interest include radio and x-ray
pulsars,
low-mass x-ray binaries, supernovae remnants and their central compact
objects, and
non-pulsing neutron star candidates seen as isolated x-ray point
sources. We
would like to know what you think/know about the spin evolution of
neutron
stars, spin rates of known subjects, spin derivatives, etc. Our
searches for continuous wave sources are so compute-intensive that we
have to ration
our resources, and we would like help in making the best possible
choices. More generally, we would like to bring the communities a
little closer to each other, to facilitate communication, exchange
ideas and
ultimately do better science. We hope that this will be first of a
series of
meetings that we will hold in the future.
This meeting will take place on Thursday November 2, 2006 at MIT in
Boston MA. At
../Nov06/NSMeet_Nov06.html
we are constructing a web page which we'll continue to update as we
make progress together in structuring this meeting.
We looking forward to hearing from you.
Best regards,
Marialessandra Papa and Michael Landry,
on behalf of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration Continuous Waves Search
Group
p.s. If you know of a colleague who might be interested in attending,
please feel free to share this email with him/her.