First Search for Gravitational Waves from Known Pulsars with Advanced LIGO

UNSPECIFIED (2017) First Search for Gravitational Waves from Known Pulsars with Advanced LIGO. The Astrophysical Journal, 839 (1): 12. ISSN 0004-637X

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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.

Item Type:

Journal Article

Journal or Publication Title:

The Astrophysical Journal

Additional Information:

This is an author-created, un-copyedited version of an article accepted for publication/published inThe Astrophysical Journa. IOP Publishing Ltd is not responsible for any errors or omissions in this version of the manuscript or any version derived from it. The Version of Record is available online at doi:10.3847/1538-4357/aa677f

Uncontrolled Keywords:

/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/3100/3103

Subjects:

?? gravitational wavespulsars: generalastronomy and astrophysicsspace and planetary science ??

Departments:

Faculty of Science and Technology > Physics

ID Code:

135702

Deposited By:

ep_importer_pure

Deposited On:

24 Jul 2019 14:15

Refereed?:

Yes

Published?:

Published

Last Modified:

25 Oct 2024 00:21

URI:

https://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/135702