All-Sky LIGO Search for Periodic Gravitational Waves in the Early Fifth-Science-Run Data

All-Sky LIGO Search for Periodic Gravitational Waves in the Early Fifth-Science-Run Data

We report on an all-sky search with the LIGO detectors for periodic gravitational waves in the frequency range 50–1100 Hz and with the frequency’s time derivative in the range -5×10[superscript -9]–0  Hz s[superscript -1]. Data from the first eight months of the fifth LIGO science run (S5) have been...

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Main Authors: Wipf, Christopher C., Weiss, Rainer, Stein, Leo Chaim, Smith, Nicolas de Mateo, Shapiro, B., Sarin, P., Markowitz, Jared John, Katsavounidis, Erotokritos, Harry, Gregory, Grimaldi, F., Goda, K., Foley, Stephany, Duke, I., Cao, Junwei, Brunet, G., Blackburn, Lindy L., Barsotti, Lisa, Mavalvala, Nergis, Shoemaker, David H, Mittleman, Richard K, Fritschel, Peter K, Evans, Matthew J, Donovan, Frederick J, Bodiya, Timothy P., Zucker, Michael E, Ruet, Laurent, Mason, Kenneth R, MacInnis, Myron E, Corbitt, Thomas R
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Physical Society 2010
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/51849
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0219-9706
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6550-3045
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4147-2560
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8459-4499
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2544-1596
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1983-3187
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Summary:We report on an all-sky search with the LIGO detectors for periodic gravitational waves in the frequency range 50–1100 Hz and with the frequency’s time derivative in the range -5×10[superscript -9]–0  Hz s[superscript -1]. Data from the first eight months of the fifth LIGO science run (S5) have been used in this search, which is based on a semicoherent method (PowerFlux) of summing strain power. Observing no evidence of periodic gravitational radiation, we report 95% confidence-level upper limits on radiation emitted by any unknown isolated rotating neutron stars within the search range. Strain limits below 10[superscript -24] are obtained over a 200-Hz band, and the sensitivity improvement over previous searches increases the spatial volume sampled by an average factor of about 100 over the entire search band. For a neutron star with nominal equatorial ellipticity of 10[superscript -6], the search is sensitive to distances as great as 500 pc.

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