First Search for Gravitational Waves from Known Pulsars with Advanced LIGO

LIGO Scientific Collaboration; Virgo Collaboration

doi:10.3847/1538-4357/aa677f

First Search for Gravitational Waves from Known Pulsars with Advanced LIGO

LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration

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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 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.

Original language	English
Article number	12
Number of pages	19
Journal	Astrophysical Journal
Volume	839
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aa677f
Publication status	Published - 10 Apr 2017
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

gravitational waves
pulsars: general
Supporting material: machine
readable table
GAMMA-RAY PULSAR
SPIN-DOWN LIMIT
NEUTRON-STARS
EMISSION
PROSPECTS
POPULATION
PULSATIONS
CLUSTERS
DISTANCE

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Erratum: First Search for Gravitational Waves from Known Pulsars with Advanced LIGO (vol 839, 12, 2017)
LIGO Scientific Collaboration & Virgo Collaboration, 10 Dec 2017, In: Astrophysical Journal. 851, 1, 5 p., 71.
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First Search for Gravitational Waves from Known Pulsars with Advanced LIGO

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Erratum: First Search for Gravitational Waves from Known Pulsars with Advanced LIGO (vol 839, 12, 2017)

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