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A search for gravitational waves associated with the August 2006 timing glitch of the Vela pulsar

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  • The LIGO Scientific Collaboration

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External Research Organisations

  • University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
  • Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute)
  • Lomonosov Moscow State University
  • LIGO Laboratory

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Original languageEnglish
JournalPhysical Review D
Volume83
Publication statusPublished - 15 Feb 2011

Abstract

The physical mechanisms responsible for pulsar timing glitches are thought to excite quasi-normal mode oscillations in their parent neutron star that couple to gravitational wave emission. In August 2006, a timing glitch was observed in the radio emission of PSR B0833-45, the Vela pulsar. At the time of the glitch, the two co-located Hanford gravitational wave detectors of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave observatory (LIGO) were operational and taking data as part of the fifth LIGO science run (S5). We present the first direct search for the gravitational wave emission associated with oscillations of the fundamental quadrupole mode excited by a pulsar timing glitch. No gravitational wave detection candidate was found. We place Bayesian 90.3e-21 to 1.4e-20 on the peak intrinsic strain amplitude of gravitational wave ring-down signals, depending on which spherical harmonic mode is excited. The corresponding range of energy upper limits is 5.0e44 to 1.3e45 erg.

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The LIGO Scientific Collaboration. A search for gravitational waves associated with the August 2006 timing glitch of the Vela pulsar. Physical Review D. 2011 Feb 15;83. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.83.042001, 10.1103/PhysRevD.83.069902
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