First Search for Gravitational Waves from Known Pulsars with Advanced LIGO

© 2017. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved..We present the result of searches for gravitational waves from 200 pulsars using data from the first observing run of the Advanced LIGO detectors. We find no significant evidence for a gravitational-wave signal from any of these pulsars...

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Main Author: Shannon, Ryan
Format: Journal Article
Published: Institute of Physics Publishing 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/72013
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description © 2017. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved..We present the result of searches for gravitational waves from 200 pulsars using data from the first observing run of the Advanced LIGO detectors. We find no significant evidence for a gravitational-wave signal from any of these pulsars, but we are able to set the most constraining upper limits yet on their gravitational-wave amplitudes and ellipticities. For eight of these pulsars, our upper limits give bounds that are improvements over the indirect spin-down limit values. For another 32, we are within a factor of 10 of the spin-down limit, and it is likely that some of these will be reachable in future runs of the advanced detector. Taken as a whole, these new results improve on previous limits by more than a factor of two.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-720132019-06-28T03:01:50Z First Search for Gravitational Waves from Known Pulsars with Advanced LIGO Shannon, Ryan © 2017. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved..We present the result of searches for gravitational waves from 200 pulsars using data from the first observing run of the Advanced LIGO detectors. We find no significant evidence for a gravitational-wave signal from any of these pulsars, but we are able to set the most constraining upper limits yet on their gravitational-wave amplitudes and ellipticities. For eight of these pulsars, our upper limits give bounds that are improvements over the indirect spin-down limit values. For another 32, we are within a factor of 10 of the spin-down limit, and it is likely that some of these will be reachable in future runs of the advanced detector. Taken as a whole, these new results improve on previous limits by more than a factor of two. 2017 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/72013 10.3847/1538-4357/aa677f Institute of Physics Publishing restricted
spellingShingle Shannon, Ryan
First Search for Gravitational Waves from Known Pulsars with Advanced LIGO
title First Search for Gravitational Waves from Known Pulsars with Advanced LIGO
title_full First Search for Gravitational Waves from Known Pulsars with Advanced LIGO
title_fullStr First Search for Gravitational Waves from Known Pulsars with Advanced LIGO
title_full_unstemmed First Search for Gravitational Waves from Known Pulsars with Advanced LIGO
title_short First Search for Gravitational Waves from Known Pulsars with Advanced LIGO
title_sort first search for gravitational waves from known pulsars with advanced ligo
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/72013