Searches for gravitational waves from known pulsars with science run 5 LIGO data

Year: 2010

Authors: Abbott B. P.; Abbott R.; Acernese F.; Adhikari R. X.; Ajith P.; Allen B.; Allen G. S.; Alshourbagy M.; Amin R. S.; Anderson S. B.; Anderson W. G.; Antonucci F.; Aoudia S.; Arain M.A.; Araya M. C.; Armandula H.; Armor P.; Arun K.G.; Aso Y.; Aston S.M.; Astone P.; Aufmuth P.; Aulbert C.; Babak S.; Baker P.; Ballardin G.; Ballmer S.; Barker C.; Barker D.; Barone F.; Barr B.; Barriga P.; Barsotti L.; Barsuglia M.; Barton M. A.; Bartos I.; Bassiri R.; Bastarrika M.; Bauer Th. S.; Behnke B.; Beker M. G.; Benacquista M.; Betzwieser J.; Beyersdorf P. T.; Bigotta S.; Bilenko I. A.; Billingsley G.; Birindelli S.; Biswas R.; Bizouard M. A.; Black E.; Blackburn J. K.; Blackburn L.; Blair D.; Bland B.; Boccara C.; Bodiya T.P.; Bogue L.; Bondu F.; Bonelli L.; Bork R.; Boschi V.; Bose S.; Bosi L.; Braccini S.; Bradaschia C.; Brady P. R.; Braginsky V. B.; Brau J. E.; Bridges D. O.; Brillet A.; Brinkmann M.; Brisson V.; Van den Broeck C.; Brooks A. F.; Brown D. A.; Brummit A.; Brunet G.; Budzynski R.; Bulik T.; Bullington A.; Bulten H. J.; Buonanno A.; Burmeister O.; Buskulic D.; Byer R. L.; Cadonati L.; Cagnoli G.; Calloni E.; Camp J. B.; Campagna E.; Cannizzo J.; Cannon K.; Canuel B.; Cao J.; Carbognani F.; Cardenas L.; Caride S.; Castaldi G.; Caudill S.; Cavaglia M.; Cavalier F.; Cavalieri R.; Cella G.; Cepeda C.; Cesarini E.; Chalermsongsak T.; Chalkley E.; Charlton P.; Chassande-Mottin E.; Chatterji S.; Chelkowski S.; Chen Y.; Chincarini A.; Christensen N.; Chung C. T. Y.; Clark D. E.; Clark J. A.; Clayton J. H.; Cleva F.; Coccia E.; Cokelaer T.; Colacino C. N.; Colas J.; Colla A.; Colombini M.; Conte R.; Cook D.; Corbitt T. R.; Corda C.; Cornish N.; Corsi A.; Coulon J. -P.; Coward D. M.; Coyne D. C.; Creighton J. D. E.; Creighton T. D.; Cruise A. M.; Culter R. M.; Cumming A.; Cunningham L.; Cuoco E.; Danilishin S. L.; D’Antonio S.; Danzmann K.; Dari A.; Dattilo V.; Daudert B.; Davier M.; Davies G.; Davis A.; Daw E. 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Autors Affiliation: CALTECH, LIGO, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA; Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Napoli, I-80126 Naples, Italy; Univ Naples Federico II, Complesso Univ Monte S Angelo, I-80126 Naples, Italy; Univ Salerno, I-84084 Salerno, Italy; Max Planck Inst Gravitat Phys, Albert Einstein Inst, D-30167 Hannover, Germany; Univ Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI 53201 USA; Stanford Univ, Stanford, CA 94305 USA; Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Pisa, I-56127 Pisa, Italy; Univ Pisa, I-56127 Pisa, Italy; Univ Siena, I-53100 Siena, Italy; Louisiana State Univ, Baton Rouge, LA 70803 USA; Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Roma, I-00185 Rome, Italy; Univ Roma La Sapienza, I-00185 Rome, Italy; CNRS, Observ Cote Azur, Dept Artemis, F-06304 Nice, France; Univ Rennes 1, CNRS, Inst Phys Rennes, F-35042 Rennes, France; Univ Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611 USA; Univ Paris 11, CNRS, IN2P3, LAL, F-91898 Orsay, France; Univ Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, W Midlands, England; Leibniz Univ Hannover, D-30167 Hannover, Germany; Max Planck Inst Gravitat Phys, Albert Einstein Inst, D-14476 Golm, Germany; Montana State Univ, Bozeman, MT 59717 USA; EGO, I-56021 Cascina, Pi, Italy; Hanford Observ, LIGO, Richland, WA 99352 USA; Univ Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, Lanark, Scotland; Univ Western Australia, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia; MIT, LIGO, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA; Univ Paris 07, CEA, Observ Paris, APC,CNRS,UMR7164,IN2P3,DSM,IRFU, F-75221 Paris 05, France; Columbia Univ, New York, NY 10027 USA; NIKHEF H, Natl Inst Subatom Phys, NL-1009 DB Amsterdam, Netherlands; Vrije Univ Amsterdam, NL-1081 HV Amsterdam, Netherlands; Univ Texas Brownsville & Texas Southmost Coll, Brownsville, TX 78520 USA; San Jose State Univ, San Jose, CA 95192 USA; Moscow MV Lomonosov State Univ, Moscow 119992, Russia; CNRS, ESPCI, F-75005 Paris, France; Livingston Observ, LIGO, Livingston, LA 70754 USA; Washington State Univ, Pullman, WA 99164 USA; Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Perugia, I-6123 Perugia, Italy; Univ Perugia, I-6123 Perugia, Italy; Univ Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403 USA; Cardiff Univ, Cardiff CF24 3AA, S Glam, Wales; Syracuse Univ, Syracuse, NY 13244 USA; 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Abstract: 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 similar to 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 themeasured 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 x 10(-26) for J1603-7202 and our best (lowest) limit on the inferred pulsar ellipticity is 7.0 x 10(-8) for J2124-3358.

Journal/Review: ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Volume: 713 (1)      Pages from: 671  to: 685

More Information: The authors gratefully acknowledge the support of the United States National Science Foundation for the construction and operation of the LIGO Laboratory, the Science and Technology Facilities Council of the United Kingdom, the Max-Planck-Society, and the State of Niedersachsen/Germany for support of the construction and operation of the GEO600 detector, and the Italian Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare and the French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique for the construction and operation of the Virgo detector. The authors also gratefully acknowledge the support of the research by these agencies and by the Australian Research Council, the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research of India, the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare of Italy, the Spanish Ministerio de Educacion y Ciencia, the Conselleria d\’Economia Hisenda i Innovacio of the Govern de les Illes Balears, the Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter supported by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, the Royal Society, the Scottish Funding Council, the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education, the FOCUS Programme of Foundation for Polish Science, the Scottish Universities Physics Alliance, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the Carnegie Trust, the Leverhulme Trust, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the Research Corporation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. LIGO Document No. LIGO-P080112-v5. Pulsar research at UBC is supported by a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Discovery Grant. The Parkes radio telescope is part of the Australia Telescope which is funded by the Commonwealth Government for operation as a National Facility managed by CSIRO. The National Radio Astronomy Observatory is a facility of the United States National Science Foundation operated under cooperative agreement by Associated Universities, Inc. We thank Maura McLaughlin for useful discussions.
KeyWords: gravitational waves; pulsars: general; Virgo; LIGO; neutron-stars
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/713/1/671

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