"All-Sky LIGO Search for Periodic Gravitational Waves in the Early Fifth-science-run Data" by B. P. Abbott

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All-Sky LIGO Search for Periodic Gravitational Waves in the Early Fifth-science-run Data

Physical Review Letters

B. P. Abbott, California Institute of Technology
R. Abbott, California Institute of Technology
R. Adhikari, California Institute of Technology
P. Ajith, Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute)
B. Allen, Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute)
G. Allen, Stanford University
R. S. Amin, Louisiana State University
S. B. Anderson, California Institute of Technology
W. G. Anderson, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
M. A. Arain, University of Florida
M. Araya, California Institute of Technology
H. Armandula, California Institute of Technology
P. Armor, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Y. Aso, Columbia University in the City of New York
S. Aston, University of Birmingham
P. Aufmuth, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover
C. Aulbert, Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute)
S. Babak, Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute)
P. Baker, Montana State University
S. Ballmer, California Institute of Technology
H. Bantilan, Carleton College, USA
B. C. Barish, California Institute of Technology
C. Barker, LIGO Hanford
D. Barker, LIGO Hanford
B. Barr, University of Glasgow
P. Barriga, The University of Western Australia
L. Barsotti, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
M. A. Barton, University of Glasgow
I. Bartos, Columbia University in the City of New York
R. Bassiri, University of Glasgow
M. Bastarrika, University of Glasgow
Tiffany Z. Summerscales, Andrews University

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Article

Publication Date

3-20-2009

Disciplines

Astrophysics and Astronomy

Abstract

We report on an all-sky search with the LIGO detectors for periodic gravitational waves in the frequency range 50-1100Hz and with the frequency's time derivative in the range -5×10-9-0Hzs-1. Data from the first eight months of the fifth LIGO science run (S5) have been used in this search, which is based on a semicoherent method (PowerFlux) of summing strain power. Observing no evidence of periodic gravitational radiation, we report 95% confidence-level upper limits on radiation emitted by any unknown isolated rotating neutron stars within the search range. Strain limits below 10-24 are obtained over a 200-Hz band, and the sensitivity improvement over previous searches increases the spatial volume sampled by an average factor of about 100 over the entire search band. For a neutron star with nominal equatorial ellipticity of 10-6, the search is sensitive to distances as great as 500pc. © 2009 The American Physical Society.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.111102

First Department

Physics

Acknowledgements

Retrieved March 8, 2021 from https://arxiv.org/pdf/0810.0283.pdf

Citation Information

B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, R. Adhikari, P. Ajith, et al.. "All-Sky LIGO Search for Periodic Gravitational Waves in the Early Fifth-science-run Data" Physical Review Letters Vol. 102 Iss. 11 (2009)
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