First Search for Gravitational Waves from Known Pulsars with Advanced LIGO

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Authors

  • The LIGO Scientific Collaboration
  • The Virgo Collaboration
  • Karsten Danzmann
  • Michele Heurs
  • Harald Lück
  • Daniel Steinmeyer
  • Henning Fedor Cornelius Vahlbruch
  • Benno Willke
  • Holger Wittel
  • Peter Aufmuth
  • A. Bisht
  • Stefan Kaufer
  • J. D. Lough
  • A. Sawadsky
  • Aditya Singh Mehra

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External Research Organisations

  • California Institute of Caltech (Caltech)
  • Louisiana State University
  • American University Washington DC
  • Universita di Salerno
  • Monte S. Angelo University Federico II
  • University of Florida
  • Universite de Savoie
  • University of Sannio
  • Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute)
  • National Institute for Subatomic Physics (Nikhef)
  • LIGO Laboratory
  • Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais
  • Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN)
  • Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics India
  • Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR HYD)
  • University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
  • University of Pisa
  • Sezione di Pisa
  • Carson College of Business
  • University of Birmingham
  • University of Glasgow
  • Hanyang University
  • Australian National University
  • Embry Riddle Aeronautical University
  • University of Melbourne
  • University of Western Australia
  • Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur (OCA)
  • Rochester Institute of Technology
  • Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA)
  • Northwestern University
  • Square Kilometer Array (SKA)
  • Hartebeesthoek Radio Astronomy Observatory
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Original languageEnglish
Article number12
JournalAstrophysical Journal
Volume839
Issue number1
Publication statusPublished - 7 Apr 2017

Abstract

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.

Keywords

    gravitational waves, pulsars: general

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First Search for Gravitational Waves from Known Pulsars with Advanced LIGO. / The LIGO Scientific Collaboration; The Virgo Collaboration; Danzmann, Karsten et al.
In: Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 839, No. 1, 12, 07.04.2017.

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The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, The Virgo Collaboration, Danzmann, K, Heurs, M, Lück, H, Steinmeyer, D, Vahlbruch, HFC, Willke, B, Wittel, H, Aufmuth, P, Bisht, A, Kaufer, S, Lough, JD, Sawadsky, A & Singh Mehra, A 2017, 'First Search for Gravitational Waves from Known Pulsars with Advanced LIGO', Astrophysical Journal, vol. 839, no. 1, 12. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aa677f, https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aa9aee
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, The Virgo Collaboration, Danzmann, K., Heurs, M., Lück, H., Steinmeyer, D., Vahlbruch, H. F. C., Willke, B., Wittel, H., Aufmuth, P., Bisht, A., Kaufer, S., Lough, J. D., Sawadsky, A., & Singh Mehra, A. (2017). First Search for Gravitational Waves from Known Pulsars with Advanced LIGO. Astrophysical Journal, 839(1), Article 12. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aa677f, https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aa9aee
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, The Virgo Collaboration, Danzmann K, Heurs M, Lück H, Steinmeyer D et al. First Search for Gravitational Waves from Known Pulsars with Advanced LIGO. Astrophysical Journal. 2017 Apr 7;839(1):12. doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/aa677f, 10.3847/1538-4357/aa9aee
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration ; The Virgo Collaboration ; Danzmann, Karsten et al. / First Search for Gravitational Waves from Known Pulsars with Advanced LIGO. In: Astrophysical Journal. 2017 ; Vol. 839, No. 1.
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