Beating the spin-down limit on gravitational wave emission from the crab pulsar


Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Adhikari, R., Ajith, P., Allen, B., Allen, G., Amin, R., Anderson, S.B., Anderson, W.G., Arain, M.A., Araya, M., Armandula, H., Armor, P., Aso, Y., Aston, S., Aufmuth, P., Aulbert, C., Babak, S., Ballmer, S., Bantilan, H., Barish, B.C., Barker, C., Barker, D., Barr, B., Barriga, P., Barton, M.A., Bastarrika, M., Bayer, K., Betzwieser, J., Beyersdorf, P.T., Bilenko, I.A., Billingsley, G., Biswas, R., Black, E., Blackburn, K., Blackburn, L., Blair, D., Bland, B., Bodiya, T.P., Bogue, L., Bork, R., Boschi, V., Bose, S., Brady, P.R., Braginsky, V.B., Brau, J.E., Brinkmann, M., Brooks, A., Brown, D.A., Brunet, G., Bullington, A., Buonanno, A., Burmeister, O., Byer, R.L., Cadonati, L., Cagnoli, G., Camp, J.B., Cannizzo, J., Cannon, K., Cao, J., Cardenas, L., Casebolt, T., Castaldi, G., Cepeda, C., Chalkley, E., Charlton, P., Chatterji, S., Chelkowski, S., Chen, Y., Christensen, N., Clark, D., Clark, J., Cokelaer, T., Conte, R., Cook, D., Corbitt, T., Coyne, D., Creighton, J.D.E., Cumming, A., Cunningham, L., Cutler, R.M., Dalrymple, J., Danzmann, K., Davies, G., DeBra, D., Degallaix, J., Degree, M., Dergachev, V., Desai, S., DeSalvo, R., Dhurandhar, S., Díaz, M., Dickson, J., Dietz, A., Donovan, F., Dooley, K.L., Doomes, E.E., Drever, R.W.P., Duke, I., Dumas, J.-C., Dupuis, R.J., Dwyer, J.G., Echols, C., Effler, A., Ehrens, P., Espinoza, E., Etzel, T., Evans, T., Fairhurst, S., Fan, Y., Fazi, D., Fehrmann, H., Fejer, M.M., Finn, L.S., Flasch, K., Fotopoulos, N., Freise, A., Frey, R., Fricke, T., Fritschel, P., Frolov, V.V., Fyffe, M., Garofoli, J., Gholami, I., Giaime, J.A., Giampanis, S., Giardina, K.D., Goda, K., Goetz, E., Goggin, L., González, G., Gossler, S., Gouaty, R., Grant, A., Gras, S., Gray, C., Gray, M., Greenhalgh, R.J.S., Gretarsson, A.M., Grimaldi, F., Grosso, R., Grote, H., Grunewald, S., Guenther, M., Gustafson, E.K., Gustafson, R., Hage, B., Hallam, J.M., Hammer, D., Hanna, C., Hanson, J., Harms, J., Harry, G., Harstad, E., Hayama, K., Hayler, T., Heefner, J., Heng, I.S., Hennessy, M., Heptonstall, A., Hewitson, M., Hild, S., Hirose, E., Hoak, D., Hosken, D., Hough, J., Huttner, S.H., Ingram, D., Ito, M., Ivanov, A., Johnson, B., Johnson, W.W., Jones, D.I., Jones, G., Jones, R., Ju, L., Kalmus, P., Kalogera, V., Kamat, S., Kanner, J., Kasprzyk, D., Katsavounidis, E., Kawabe, K., Kawamura, S., Kawazoe, F., Kells, W., Keppel, D.G., Khalili, F.Ya., Khan, R., Khazanov, E., Kim, C., King, P., Kissel, J.S., Klimenko, S., Kokeyama, K., Kondrashov, V., Kopparapu, R.K., Kozak, D., Kozhevatov, I., Krishnan, B., Kwee, P., Lam, P.K., Landry, M., Lang, M.M., Lantz, B., Lazzarini, A., Lei, M., Leindecker, N., Leonhardt, V., Leonor, I., Libbrecht, K., Lin, H., Lindquist, P., Lockerbie, N.A., Lodhia, D., Lormand, M., Lu, P., Lubinski, M., Lucianetti, A., Lück, H., Machenschalk, B., MacInnis, M., Mageswaran, M., Mailand, K., Mandic, V., Márka, S., Márka, Z., Markosyan, A., Markowitz, J., Maros, E., Martin, I., Martin, R.M., Marx, J.N., Mason, K., Matichard, F., Matone, L., Matzner, R., Mavalvala, N., McCarthy, R., McClelland, D.E., McGuire, S.C., McHugh, M., McIntyre, G., McIvor, G., McKechan, D., McKenzie, K., Meier, T., Melissinos, A., Mendell, G., Mercer, R.A., Meshkov, S., Messenger, C.J., Meyers, D., Miller, J., Minelli, J., Mitra, S., Mitrofanov, V.P., Mitselmakher, G., Mittleman, R., Miyakawa, O., Moe, B., Mohanty, S., Moreno, G., Mossavi, K., MowLowry, C., Mueller, G., Mukherjee, S., Mukhopadhyay, H., Müller-Ebhardt, H., Munch, J., Murray, P., Myers, E., Myers, J., Nash, T., Nelson, J., Newton, G., Nishizawa, A., Numata, K., O'Dell, J., Ogin, G., O'Reilly, B., O'Shaughnessy, R., Ottaway, D.J., Ottens, R.S., Overmier, H., Owen, B.J., Pan, Y., Pankow, C., Papa, M.A., Parameshwaraiah, V., Patel, P., Pedraza, M., Penn, S., Perreca, A., Petrie, T., Pinto, I.M., Pitkin, M., Pletsch, H.J., Plissi, M.V., Postiglione, F., Principe, M., Prix, R., Quetschke, V., Raab, F., Rabeling, D.S., Radkins, H., Rainer, N., Rakhmanov, M., Ramsunder, M., Rehbein, H., Reid, S., Reitze, D.H., Riesen, R., Riles, K., Rivera, B., Robertson, N.A., Robinson, C., Robinson, E.L., Roddy, S., Rodriguez, A., Rogan, A.M., Rollins, J., Romano, J.D., Romie, J., Route, R., Rowan, S., Rüdiger, A., Ruet, L., Russell, P., Ryan, K., Sakata, S., Samidi, M., de la Jordana, L. Sancho, Sandberg, V., Sannibale, V., Saraf, S., Sarin, P., Sathyaprakash, B.S., Sato, S., Saulson, P.R., Savage, R., Savov, P., Schediwy, S.W., Schilling, R., Schnabel, R., Schofield, R., Schutz, B.F., Schwinberg, P., Scott, S.M., Searle, A.C., Sears, B., Seifert, F., Sellers, D., Sengupta, A.S., Shawhan, P., Shoemaker, D.H., Sibley, A., Siemens, X., Sigg, D., Sinha, S., Sintes, A.M., Slagmolen, B.J.J., Slutsky, J., Smith, J.R., Smith, M.R., Smith, N.D., Somiya, K., Sorazu, B., Stein, L.C., Stochino, A., Stone, R., Strain, K.A., Strom, D.M., Stuver, A., Summerscales, T.Z., Sun, K.-X., Sung, M., Sutton, P.J., Takahashi, H., Tanner, D.B., Taylor, R., Taylor, R., Thacker, J., Thorne, K.A., Thorne, K.S., Thüring, A., Tokmakov, K.V., Torres, C., Torrie, C., Traylor, G., Trias, M., Tyler, W., Ugolini, D., Ulmen, J., Urbanek, K., Vahlbruch, H., Van Den Broeck, C., van der Sluys, M., Vass, S., Vaulin, R., Vecchio, A., Veitch, J., Veitch, P., Villar, A., Vorvick, C., Vyachanin, S.P., Waldman, S.J., Wallace, L., Ward, H., Ward, R., Weinert, M., Weinstein, A., Weiss, R., Wen, S., Wette, K., Whelan, J.T., Whitcomb, S.E., Whiting, B.F., Wilkinson, C., Willems, P.A., Williams, H.R., Williams, L., Willke, B., Wilmut, I., Winkler, W., Wipf, C.C., Wiseman, A.G., Woan, G., Wooley, R., Worden, J., Wu, W., Yakushin, I., Yamamoto, H., Yan, Z., Yoshida, S., Zanolin, M., Zhang, J., Zhang, L., Zhao, C., Zotov, N., Zucker, M., Zweizig, J. and Santostasi, G. (2008) Beating the spin-down limit on gravitational wave emission from the crab pulsar. The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 683, (1), L45-L49. (doi:10.1086/591526).

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We present direct upper limits on gravitational wave emission from the Crab pulsar using data from the first 9 months of the fifth science run of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO). These limits are based on two searches. In the first we assume that the gravitational wave emission follows the observed radio timing, giving an upper limit on gravitational wave emission that beats indirect limits inferred from the spin-down and braking index of the pulsar and the energetics of the nebula. In the second we allow for a small mismatch between the gravitational and radio signal frequencies and interpret our results in the context of two possible gravitational wave emission mechanisms.

Item Type: Article
ISSNs: 0004-637X (print)
1538-4357 (electronic)
Subjects: Q Science > QA Mathematics
Divisions: University Structure - Pre August 2011 > School of Mathematics > Applied Mathematics
Item ID: 154877
Date Deposited: 26 May 2010 14:44
Last Modified: 20 May 2013 14:19
Contributors: Abbott, B. (Author)
Abbott, R. (Author)
Adhikari, R. (Author)
Ajith, P. (Author)
Allen, B. (Author)
Allen, G. (Author)
Amin, R. (Author)
Anderson, S.B. (Author)
Anderson, W.G. (Author)
Arain, M.A. (Author)
Araya, M. (Author)
Armandula, H. (Author)
Armor, P. (Author)
Aso, Y. (Author)
Aston, S. (Author)
Aufmuth, P. (Author)
Aulbert, C. (Author)
Babak, S. (Author)
Ballmer, S. (Author)
Bantilan, H. (Author)
Barish, B.C. (Author)
Barker, C. (Author)
Barker, D. (Author)
Barr, B. (Author)
Barriga, P. (Author)
Barton, M.A. (Author)
Bastarrika, M. (Author)
Bayer, K. (Author)
Betzwieser, J. (Author)
Beyersdorf, P.T. (Author)
Bilenko, I.A. (Author)
Billingsley, G. (Author)
Biswas, R. (Author)
Black, E. (Author)
Blackburn, K. (Author)
Blackburn, L. (Author)
Blair, D. (Author)
Bland, B. (Author)
Bodiya, T.P. (Author)
Bogue, L. (Author)
Bork, R. (Author)
Boschi, V. (Author)
Bose, S. (Author)
Brady, P.R. (Author)
Braginsky, V.B. (Author)
Brau, J.E. (Author)
Brinkmann, M. (Author)
Brooks, A. (Author)
Brown, D.A. (Author)
Brunet, G. (Author)
Bullington, A. (Author)
Buonanno, A. (Author)
Burmeister, O. (Author)
Byer, R.L. (Author)
Cadonati, L. (Author)
Cagnoli, G. (Author)
Camp, J.B. (Author)
Cannizzo, J. (Author)
Cannon, K. (Author)
Cao, J. (Author)
Cardenas, L. (Author)
Casebolt, T. (Author)
Castaldi, G. (Author)
Cepeda, C. (Author)
Chalkley, E. (Author)
Charlton, P. (Author)
Chatterji, S. (Author)
Chelkowski, S. (Author)
Chen, Y. (Author)
Christensen, N. (Author)
Clark, D. (Author)
Clark, J. (Author)
Cokelaer, T. (Author)
Conte, R. (Author)
Cook, D. (Author)
Corbitt, T. (Author)
Coyne, D. (Author)
Creighton, J.D.E. (Author)
Cumming, A. (Author)
Cunningham, L. (Author)
Cutler, R.M. (Author)
Dalrymple, J. (Author)
Danzmann, K. (Author)
Davies, G. (Author)
DeBra, D. (Author)
Degallaix, J. (Author)
Degree, M. (Author)
Dergachev, V. (Author)
Desai, S. (Author)
DeSalvo, R. (Author)
Dhurandhar, S. (Author)
Díaz, M. (Author)
Dickson, J. (Author)
Dietz, A. (Author)
Donovan, F. (Author)
Dooley, K.L. (Author)
Doomes, E.E. (Author)
Drever, R.W.P. (Author)
Duke, I. (Author)
Dumas, J.-C. (Author)
Dupuis, R.J. (Author)
Dwyer, J.G. (Author)
Echols, C. (Author)
Effler, A. (Author)
Ehrens, P. (Author)
Espinoza, E. (Author)
Etzel, T. (Author)
Evans, T. (Author)
Fairhurst, S. (Author)
Fan, Y. (Author)
Fazi, D. (Author)
Fehrmann, H. (Author)
Fejer, M.M. (Author)
Finn, L.S. (Author)
Flasch, K. (Author)
Fotopoulos, N. (Author)
Freise, A. (Author)
Frey, R. (Author)
Fricke, T. (Author)
Fritschel, P. (Author)
Frolov, V.V. (Author)
Fyffe, M. (Author)
Garofoli, J. (Author)
Gholami, I. (Author)
Giaime, J.A. (Author)
Giampanis, S. (Author)
Giardina, K.D. (Author)
Goda, K. (Author)
Goetz, E. (Author)
Goggin, L. (Author)
González, G. (Author)
Gossler, S. (Author)
Gouaty, R. (Author)
Grant, A. (Author)
Gras, S. (Author)
Gray, C. (Author)
Gray, M. (Author)
Greenhalgh, R.J.S. (Author)
Gretarsson, A.M. (Author)
Grimaldi, F. (Author)
Grosso, R. (Author)
Grote, H. (Author)
Grunewald, S. (Author)
Guenther, M. (Author)
Gustafson, E.K. (Author)
Gustafson, R. (Author)
Hage, B. (Author)
Hallam, J.M. (Author)
Hammer, D. (Author)
Hanna, C. (Author)
Hanson, J. (Author)
Harms, J. (Author)
Harry, G. (Author)
Harstad, E. (Author)
Hayama, K. (Author)
Hayler, T. (Author)
Heefner, J. (Author)
Heng, I.S. (Author)
Hennessy, M. (Author)
Heptonstall, A. (Author)
Hewitson, M. (Author)
Hild, S. (Author)
Hirose, E. (Author)
Hoak, D. (Author)
Hosken, D. (Author)
Hough, J. (Author)
Huttner, S.H. (Author)
Ingram, D. (Author)
Ito, M. (Author)
Ivanov, A. (Author)
Johnson, B. (Author)
Johnson, W.W. (Author)
Jones, D.I. (Author)
Jones, G. (Author)
Jones, R. (Author)
Ju, L. (Author)
Kalmus, P. (Author)
Kalogera, V. (Author)
Kamat, S. (Author)
Kanner, J. (Author)
Kasprzyk, D. (Author)
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Kawabe, K. (Author)
Kawamura, S. (Author)
Kawazoe, F. (Author)
Kells, W. (Author)
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Khalili, F.Ya. (Author)
Khan, R. (Author)
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Kim, C. (Author)
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Kissel, J.S. (Author)
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Machenschalk, B. (Author)
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Martin, R.M. (Author)
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Matzner, R. (Author)
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McCarthy, R. (Author)
McClelland, D.E. (Author)
McGuire, S.C. (Author)
McHugh, M. (Author)
McIntyre, G. (Author)
McIvor, G. (Author)
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Melissinos, A. (Author)
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Mercer, R.A. (Author)
Meshkov, S. (Author)
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Miller, J. (Author)
Minelli, J. (Author)
Mitra, S. (Author)
Mitrofanov, V.P. (Author)
Mitselmakher, G. (Author)
Mittleman, R. (Author)
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Nishizawa, A. (Author)
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O'Dell, J. (Author)
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Pan, Y. (Author)
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Quetschke, V. (Author)
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Rabeling, D.S. (Author)
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Rainer, N. (Author)
Rakhmanov, M. (Author)
Ramsunder, M. (Author)
Rehbein, H. (Author)
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Reitze, D.H. (Author)
Riesen, R. (Author)
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de la Jordana, L. Sancho (Author)
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Sannibale, V. (Author)
Saraf, S. (Author)
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Sathyaprakash, B.S. (Author)
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Sengupta, A.S. (Author)
Shawhan, P. (Author)
Shoemaker, D.H. (Author)
Sibley, A. (Author)
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Strain, K.A. (Author)
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Summerscales, T.Z. (Author)
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Winkler, W. (Author)
Wipf, C.C. (Author)
Wiseman, A.G. (Author)
Woan, G. (Author)
Wooley, R. (Author)
Worden, J. (Author)
Wu, W. (Author)
Yakushin, I. (Author)
Yamamoto, H. (Author)
Yan, Z. (Author)
Yoshida, S. (Author)
Zanolin, M. (Author)
Zhang, J. (Author)
Zhang, L. (Author)
Zhao, C. (Author)
Zotov, N. (Author)
Zucker, M. (Author)
Zweizig, J. (Author)
Santostasi, G. (Author)
Date: 10 August 2008
Status: Published
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/154877

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