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First search for gravitational waves from known pulsars with Advanced LIGO
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Abbott, BP and Abbott, R and Siellez, K and Zweizig, J and Buchner, S and Cognard, I and Corongiu, A and Freire, PCC and Guillemot, L and Hobbs, GB and Kerr, M and Lyne, AG and Possenti, A and Ridolfi, A and Shannon, RM and Stappers, BW and Weltevrede, P, LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration, First search for gravitational waves from known pulsars with Advanced LIGO, The Astrophysical Journal: An International Review of Astronomy and Astronomical Physics, 839 Article 12. ISSN 0004-637X (2017) [Refereed Article]
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DOI: doi:10.3847/1538-4357/aa677f
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 spindown 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.
Item Details
| Item Type: | Refereed Article |
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| Keywords: | gravitational waves, pulsars, Advanced LIGO |
| Research Division: | Physical Sciences |
| Research Group: | Astronomical sciences |
| Research Field: | General relativity and gravitational waves |
| Objective Division: | Expanding Knowledge |
| Objective Group: | Expanding knowledge |
| Objective Field: | Expanding knowledge in the physical sciences |
| UTAS Author: | Siellez, K (Dr Karelle Siellez) |
| ID Code: | 152114 |
| Year Published: | 2017 |
| Web of Science® Times Cited: | 111 |
| Deposited By: | Physics |
| Deposited On: | 2022-08-11 |
| Last Modified: | 2022-11-21 |
| Downloads: | 0 |
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