All-sky search for periodic gravitational waves in LIGO S4 data

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“…A number of all-sky searches have been carried out on initial LIGO data, [2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15], of which [2,3,7,9,14] also ran on Einstein@Home. Einstein@Home is a distributed computing project which uses the idle time of computers volunteered by the general public to search for GWs.…”

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First low-frequency Einstein@Home all-sky search for continuous gravitational waves in Advanced LIGO data

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We report results of a deep all-sky search for periodic gravitational waves from isolated neutron stars in data from the first Advanced LIGO observing run. This search investigates the low frequency range of Advanced LIGO data, between 20 and 100 Hz, much of which was not explored in initial LIGO. The search was made possible by the computing power provided by the volunteers of the Einstein@Home project. We find no significant signal candidate and set the most stringent upper limits to date on the amplitude of gravitational wave signals from the target population, corresponding to a sensitivity depth of 48.7 ½1= ffiffiffiffiffiffi Hz p . At the frequency of best strain sensitivity, near 100 Hz, we set 90% confidence upper limits of 1.8 × 10 −25 . At the low end of our frequency range, 20 Hz, we achieve upper limits of 3.9 × 10 −24 . At 55 Hz we can exclude sources with ellipticities greater than 10 −5 within 100 pc of Earth with fiducial value of the principal moment of inertia of 10 38 kg m 2 .

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First low-frequency Einstein@Home all-sky search for continuous gravitational waves in Advanced LIGO data

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“…These searches use the same search algorithms, are fully coherent and are ongoing using data from more recent (and therefore more sensitive) runs. Additional continuous wave searches using incoherent techniques are also being performed on LIGO data [16,17].…”

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Upper limits on gravitational wave emission from 78 radio pulsars

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We present upper limits on the gravitational wave emission from 78 radio pulsars based on data from the third and fourth science runs of the LIGO and GEO 600 gravitational wave detectors. The data from both runs have been combined coherently to maximize sensitivity. For the first time, pulsars within binary (or multiple) systems have been included in the search by taking into account the signal modulation due to their orbits. Our upper limits are therefore the first measured for 56 of these pulsars. For the remaining 22, our results improve on previous upper limits by up to a factor of 10. For example, our tightest upper limit on the gravitational strain is 2:6 10 ÿ25 for PSR J1603 ÿ 7202, and the equatorial ellipticity of PSR J2124-3358 is less than 10 ÿ6 . Furthermore, our strain upper limit for the Crab pulsar is only 2.2 times greater than the fiducial spin-down limit.

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“…Also different types of qualitative follow-up tests were performed on each of the coincident outliers. As described in [5], no evidence for a periodic gravitational wave signal was observed in any of the searches and upper limits on sources were determined.…”

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“…Isolated neutron stars in our galaxy were the prime target. For further details on the analysis and discussions we refer the reader to [5].…”

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Report on an all-sky LIGO search for periodic gravitational waves in the S4 data

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2008

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Abstract. We report on an all-sky search with the LIGO detectors for periodic gravitational waves in the frequency range 50-1000 Hz and having a negative frequency time derivative with magnitude between zero and 10 −8 Hz/s. Data from the fourth LIGO science run have been used in this search. Three different semi-coherent methods of summing strain power were applied. Observing no evidence for periodic gravitational radiation, we report upper limits on strain amplitude and interpret these limits to constrain radiation from rotating neutron stars.

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All-sky search for periodic gravitational waves in LIGO S4 data

Cited by 143 publications

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First low-frequency Einstein@Home all-sky search for continuous gravitational waves in Advanced LIGO data

First low-frequency Einstein@Home all-sky search for continuous gravitational waves in Advanced LIGO data

Upper limits on gravitational wave emission from 78 radio pulsars

Report on an all-sky LIGO search for periodic gravitational waves in the S4 data

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