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Einstein@Home Search for Periodic Gravitational Waves in LIGO S4 Data
Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
  • B. 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. Amin, Louisiana State University
  • D. P. Anderson, University of California, Berkeley
  • 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)
  • 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
  • M. A. Barton, University of Glasgow
  • M. Bastarrika, University of Glasgow
  • K. Bayer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • J. Betzwieser, California Institute of Technology
  • P. T. Beyersdorf, San Jose State University
  • Tiffany Z. Summerscales, Andrews University
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-5-2009
Abstract

A search for periodic gravitational waves, from sources such as isolated rapidly spinning neutron stars, was carried out using 510 h of data from the fourth LIGO science run (S4). The search was for quasimonochromatic waves in the frequency range from 50 to 1500 Hz, with a linear frequency drift ḟ (measured at the solar system barycenter) in the range -f/τ<ḟ

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.79.022001
First Department
Physics
Acknowledgements
Retrieved March 8, 2021 from https://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevD.79.022001
Citation Information
B. Abbott, R. Abbott, R. Adhikari, P. Ajith, et al.. "Einstein@Home Search for Periodic Gravitational Waves in LIGO S4 Data" Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology Vol. 79 Iss. 2 (2009)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/tiffany_summerscales/163/