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First search for gravitational waves from known pulsars with Advanced LIGO

First search for gravitational waves from known pulsars with Advanced LIGO
First search for gravitational waves from known pulsars with Advanced LIGO
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.
0004-637X
Abbott, B. P.
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Jones, David
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The LIGO Scientific Collaboration and the Virgo Collaboration
Abbott, B. P.
20b32f53-5355-40eb-9d69-91c95d56e693
Jones, David
b8f3e32c-d537-445a-a1e4-7436f472e160

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration and the Virgo Collaboration (2017) First search for gravitational waves from known pulsars with Advanced LIGO. The Astrophysical Journal, 839 (1), [12]. (doi:10.3847/1538-4357/aa677f).

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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.

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Accepted/In Press date: 15 March 2017
e-pub ahead of print date: 7 April 2017

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Local EPrints ID: 413048
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/413048
ISSN: 0004-637X
PURE UUID: db781511-6fd5-4ce9-8f52-85b24321f634
ORCID for David Jones: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-0117-7567

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Date deposited: 14 Aug 2017 16:30
Last modified: 16 Mar 2024 03:06

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Author: B. P. Abbott
Author: David Jones ORCID iD
Corporate Author: The LIGO Scientific Collaboration and the Virgo Collaboration

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