Walsh, SWette, KarlPapa, Maria AllesandraPrix, R2020-06-252020-06-252470-0010http://hdl.handle.net/1885/205528Rapidly rotating neutron stars are promising sources of continuous gravitational wave radiation for the LIGO and Virgo interferometers. The majority of neutron stars in our galaxy have not been identified with electromagnetic observations. All-sky searches for isolated neutron stars offer the potential to detect gravitational waves from these unidentified sources. The parameter space of these blind all-sky searches, which also cover a large range of frequencies and frequency derivatives, presents a significant computa- tional challenge. Various methods have been designed to perform these searches within the limits of available computing resources. Recently, a search method called Weave has been proposed to achieve template placement with a minimal number of templates.Simulations were performed on the Atlas computer cluster of the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics. S. W. is supported by the National Science Foundation Grant No. NSF PHY 1607585. K. W. is supported by Australian Research Council Grant No. CE170100004.application/pdfen-AU© 2019 American Physical Society201910.1103/PhysRevD.99.0820042020-01-19