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All-sky Search for Periodic Gravitational Waves in the O1 LIGO Data
Faculty Publications
  • Tiffany Summerscales, Andrews University
  • LIGO Scientific Collaboration and the Virgo Collaboration
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
7-15-2017
Keywords
  • Gravitational waves,
  • Neutron stars,
  • LIGO
Abstract

We report on an all-sky search for periodic gravitational waves in the frequency band 20-475 Hz and with a frequency time derivative in the range of [-1.0, +0.1]e-8 Hz/s. Such a signal could be produced by a nearby spinning and slightly non-axisymmetric isolated neutron star in our galaxy. This search uses the data from Advanced LIGO's first observational run, O1. No periodic gravitational wave signals were observed, and upper limits were placed on their strengths. The lowest upper limits on worst-case (linearly polarized) strain amplitude h0 are 4e-25 near 170 Hz. For a circularly polarized source (most favorable orientation), the smallest upper limits obtained are 1.5e-25. These upper limits refer to all sky locations and the entire range of frequency derivative values. For a population-averaged ensemble of sky locations and stellar orientations, the lowest upper limits obtained for the strain amplitude are 2.5e-25.

Journal Title
Physical Review D
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.96.062002
First Department
Physics
Citation Information
Tiffany Summerscales and LIGO Scientific Collaboration and the Virgo Collaboration. "All-sky Search for Periodic Gravitational Waves in the O1 LIGO Data" Vol. 96 (2017) p. 062002
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/tiffany_summerscales/85/