First Search for Gravitational Waves From the Youngest Known Neutron Star

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“…The loss in energy to GWs in Crab is less than 1% of the rotational energy lost due to the observed spin down [450]; the corresponding number for Vela is 10% [445]. A search for CW signals in the frequency range of 100-300 Hz from the compact central object, believed to be a NS, in the supernova remnant Cassiopea A at 3 kpc, has set best upper limit on the strain amplitude of ∼ 3 × 10 −24 and equatorial ellipticity of 0.4-4 × 10 −4 , as well as setting the first ever limit on the amplitude of r-modes in this young NS [451].…”

Section: Results From Ligo and Virgomentioning

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Sources of Gravitational Waves: Theory and Observations

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Sathyaprakash²

2015

General Relativity and Gravitation

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Sources of Gravitational Waves: Theory and Observations

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Sathyaprakash²

2015

General Relativity and Gravitation

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“…Data from S5 and S6 have been analysed in several searches for continuous wave sources in supernova remnants targeting specific, known sources like the Crab pulsar [16][17][18], Cassiopeia A [19,20], other young pulsars with radio or X-ray ephemerides [18,21], and young supernova remnants [22]. Broadband, all-sky searches have also been carried out for unknown sources, some of which may turn out post-discovery to reside in supernova remnants [23][24][25].…”

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Cross-correlation search for continuous gravitational waves from a compact object in SNR 1987A in LIGO Science run 5

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We present the results of a cross-correlation search for gravitational waves from SNR 1987A using the second year of LIGO Science Run 5 data. The frequency band 75-450 Hz is searched. No evidence of gravitational waves is found. A 90% confidence upper limit of h0 ≤ 3.8 × 10 −25 is placed on the gravitational wave strain at the most sensitive frequency near 150 Hz. This corresponds to an ellipticity of ≤ 8.2 × 10 −4 and improves on previously published strain upper limits by a factor ≈ 4. We perform a comprehensive suite of validations of the search algorithm and identify several computational savings which marginally sacrifice sensitivity in order to streamline the parameter space being searched. We estimate detection thresholds and sensitivities through Monte-Carlo simulations.PACS numbers: 95.85.Sz, 97.60.Jd

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“…A more complicated triangular parameter-space shape has been discussed in Ref. [15] and used in the search for gravitational waves from the supernova remnant Cassiopeia-A [16]. The parameters of a search over such space are difficult to optimize as the spindown order may vary even in infinitesimally small slices of a frequency band.…”

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Optimizing the StackSlide setup and data selection for continuous-gravitational-wave searches in realistic detector data

Shaltev

2016

Phys. Rev. D

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The search for continuous gravitational waves in a wide parameter space at fixed computing cost is most efficiently done with semicoherent methods, e.g. StackSlide, due to the prohibitive computing cost of the fully coherent search strategies. Prix&Shaltev [1] have developed a semi-analytic method for finding optimal StackSlide parameters at fixed computing cost under ideal data conditions, i.e. gap-less data and constant noise floor. In this work we consider more realistic conditions by allowing for gaps in the data and changes in noise level. We show how the sensitivity optimization can be decoupled from the data selection problem. To find optimal semicoherent search parameters we apply a numerical optimization using as example the semicoherent StackSlide search. We also describe three different data selection algorithms. Thus the outcome of the numerical optimization consists of the optimal search parameters and the selected dataset. We first test the numerical optimization procedure under ideal conditions and show that we can reproduce the results of the analytical method. Then we gradually relax the conditions on the data and find that a compact data selection algorithm yields higher sensitivity compared to a greedy data selection procedure.

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First Search for Gravitational Waves From the Youngest Known Neutron Star

Cited by 124 publications

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Sources of Gravitational Waves: Theory and Observations

Sources of Gravitational Waves: Theory and Observations

Cross-correlation search for continuous gravitational waves from a compact object in SNR 1987A in LIGO Science run 5

Optimizing the StackSlide setup and data selection for continuous-gravitational-wave searches in realistic detector data

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