Search for ultralight bosons in Cygnus X-1 with Advanced LIGO

Ultralight scalars, if they exist as theorized, could form clouds around rapidly rotating black holes. Such clouds are expected to emit continuous, quasimonochromatic gravitational waves that could be detected by LIGO and Virgo. Here we present results of a directed search for such signals from the...

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Main Authors: Sun, Ling, Brito, Richard, Isi Banales, Maximiliano S
Other Authors: LIGO (Observatory : Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2020
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/126574