SEARCHES FOR GRAVITATIONAL WAVES FROM KNOWN PULSARS WITH SCIENCE RUN 5 LIGO DATA
We present a search for gravitational waves from 116 known millisecond and young pulsars using data from the fifth science run of the LIGO detectors. For this search, ephemerides overlapping the run period were obtained for all pulsars using radio and X-ray observations. We demonstrate an updated se...
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| author | Bodiya, Timothy Paul Evans, Matthew J. Barsotti, Lisa Blackburn, Lindy L. Brunet, G. Cao, J. Corbitt, Thomas R. Donovan, Frederick J. Duke, I. Foley, S. Fritschel, Peter K. Goda, K. Grimaldi, F. Harry, Gregory Hughey, Barbara Katsavounidis, Erotokritos MacInnis, Myron E. Markowitz, Jared John Mavalvala, Nergis Mason, Kenneth R. Mittleman, Richard K. Sarin, P. Shapiro, B. Shoemaker, David H. Smith, N. D. Stein, A. Stein, L. C. Weiss, Rainer Waldman, S. J. Wipf, C. C. Zucker, Michael E. |
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| description | We present a search for gravitational waves from 116 known millisecond and young pulsars using data from the fifth science run of the LIGO detectors. For this search, ephemerides overlapping the run period were obtained for all pulsars using radio and X-ray observations. We demonstrate an updated search method that allows for small uncertainties in the pulsar phase parameters to be included in the search. We report no signal detection from any of the targets and therefore interpret our results as upper limits on the gravitational wave signal strength. The most interesting limits are those for young pulsars. We present updated limits on gravitational radiation from the Crab pulsar, where the measured limit is now a factor of 7 below the spin-down limit. This limits the power radiated via gravitational waves to be less than ~2% of the available spin-down power. For the X-ray pulsar J0537 – 6910 we reach the spin-down limit under the assumption that any gravitational wave signal from it stays phase locked to the X-ray pulses over timing glitches, and for pulsars J1913+1011 and J1952+3252 we are only a factor of a few above the spin-down limit. Of the recycled millisecond pulsars, several of the measured upper limits are only about an order of magnitude above their spin-down limits. For these our best (lowest) upper limit on gravitational wave amplitude is 2.3 × 10[superscript –26] for J1603 – 7202 and our best (lowest) limit on the inferred pulsar ellipticity is 7.0 × 10[superscript –8] for J2124 – 3358. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/960352022-10-01T20:11:57Z SEARCHES FOR GRAVITATIONAL WAVES FROM KNOWN PULSARS WITH SCIENCE RUN 5 LIGO DATA Bodiya, Timothy Paul Evans, Matthew J. Barsotti, Lisa Blackburn, Lindy L. Brunet, G. Cao, J. Corbitt, Thomas R. Donovan, Frederick J. Duke, I. Foley, S. Fritschel, Peter K. Goda, K. Grimaldi, F. Harry, Gregory Hughey, Barbara Katsavounidis, Erotokritos MacInnis, Myron E. Markowitz, Jared John Mavalvala, Nergis Mason, Kenneth R. Mittleman, Richard K. Sarin, P. Shapiro, B. Shoemaker, David H. Smith, N. D. Stein, A. Stein, L. C. Weiss, Rainer Waldman, S. J. Wipf, C. C. Zucker, Michael E. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics LIGO (Observatory : Massachusetts Institute of Technology) MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research Bodiya, Timothy Paul Evans, Matthew J. Barsotti, Lisa Blackburn, Lindy L. Brunet, G. Cao, J. Corbitt, Thomas R. Donovan, Frederick J. Duke, I. Foley, S. Fritschel, Peter K. Goda, K. Grimaldi, F. Harry, Gregory Hughey, Barbara Katsavounidis, Erotokritos MacInnis, Myron E. Markowitz, Jared John Mavalvala, Nergis Mason, Kenneth R. Mittleman, Richard K. Sarin, P. Shapiro, B. Shoemaker, David H. Smith, N. D. Stein, A. Stein, L. C. Weiss, Rainer Waldman, S. J. Wipf, C. C. Zucker, Michael E. We present a search for gravitational waves from 116 known millisecond and young pulsars using data from the fifth science run of the LIGO detectors. For this search, ephemerides overlapping the run period were obtained for all pulsars using radio and X-ray observations. We demonstrate an updated search method that allows for small uncertainties in the pulsar phase parameters to be included in the search. We report no signal detection from any of the targets and therefore interpret our results as upper limits on the gravitational wave signal strength. The most interesting limits are those for young pulsars. We present updated limits on gravitational radiation from the Crab pulsar, where the measured limit is now a factor of 7 below the spin-down limit. This limits the power radiated via gravitational waves to be less than ~2% of the available spin-down power. For the X-ray pulsar J0537 – 6910 we reach the spin-down limit under the assumption that any gravitational wave signal from it stays phase locked to the X-ray pulses over timing glitches, and for pulsars J1913+1011 and J1952+3252 we are only a factor of a few above the spin-down limit. Of the recycled millisecond pulsars, several of the measured upper limits are only about an order of magnitude above their spin-down limits. For these our best (lowest) upper limit on gravitational wave amplitude is 2.3 × 10[superscript –26] for J1603 – 7202 and our best (lowest) limit on the inferred pulsar ellipticity is 7.0 × 10[superscript –8] for J2124 – 3358. National Science Foundation (U.S.) United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration David & Lucile Packard Foundation Research Corporation Alfred P. Sloan Foundation National Radio Astronomy Observatory (U.S.) 2015-03-17T14:36:43Z 2015-03-17T14:36:43Z 2010-03 2009-10 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 0004-637X 1538-4357 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/96035 Abbott, B. P., R. Abbott, F. Acernese, R. Adhikari, P. Ajith, B. Allen, G. Allen, et al. “SEARCHES FOR GRAVITATIONAL WAVES FROM KNOWN PULSARS WITH SCIENCE RUN 5 LIGO DATA.” The Astrophysical Journal 713, no. 1 (March 24, 2010): 671–685. © 2010 The American Astronomical Society https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0219-9706 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6550-3045 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4147-2560 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8166-6805 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8459-4499 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2544-1596 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1983-3187 en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0004-637x/713/1/671 Astrophysical Journal Article is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use. application/pdf IOP Publishing American Astronomical Society |
| spellingShingle | Bodiya, Timothy Paul Evans, Matthew J. Barsotti, Lisa Blackburn, Lindy L. Brunet, G. Cao, J. Corbitt, Thomas R. Donovan, Frederick J. Duke, I. Foley, S. Fritschel, Peter K. Goda, K. Grimaldi, F. Harry, Gregory Hughey, Barbara Katsavounidis, Erotokritos MacInnis, Myron E. Markowitz, Jared John Mavalvala, Nergis Mason, Kenneth R. Mittleman, Richard K. Sarin, P. Shapiro, B. Shoemaker, David H. Smith, N. D. Stein, A. Stein, L. C. Weiss, Rainer Waldman, S. J. Wipf, C. C. Zucker, Michael E. SEARCHES FOR GRAVITATIONAL WAVES FROM KNOWN PULSARS WITH SCIENCE RUN 5 LIGO DATA |
| title | SEARCHES FOR GRAVITATIONAL WAVES FROM KNOWN PULSARS WITH SCIENCE RUN 5 LIGO DATA |
| title_full | SEARCHES FOR GRAVITATIONAL WAVES FROM KNOWN PULSARS WITH SCIENCE RUN 5 LIGO DATA |
| title_fullStr | SEARCHES FOR GRAVITATIONAL WAVES FROM KNOWN PULSARS WITH SCIENCE RUN 5 LIGO DATA |
| title_full_unstemmed | SEARCHES FOR GRAVITATIONAL WAVES FROM KNOWN PULSARS WITH SCIENCE RUN 5 LIGO DATA |
| title_short | SEARCHES FOR GRAVITATIONAL WAVES FROM KNOWN PULSARS WITH SCIENCE RUN 5 LIGO DATA |
| title_sort | searches for gravitational waves from known pulsars with science run 5 ligo data |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/96035 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0219-9706 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6550-3045 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4147-2560 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8166-6805 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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