Abbott, B.P.; Abbott, R.; Abbott, T.D.; Acernese, F.; Ackley, K. et al.: First narrow-band search for continuous gravitational waves from known pulsars in advanced detector data. In: Physical Review D 96 (2017), Nr. 12, 122006. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.96.122006
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Spinning neutron stars asymmetric with respect to their rotation axis are potential sources of continuous gravitational waves for ground-based interferometric detectors. In the case of known pulsars a fully coherent search, based on matched filtering, which uses the position and rotational parameters obtained from electromagnetic observations, can be carried out. Matched filtering maximizes the signal-to-noise (SNR) ratio, but a large sensitivity loss is expected in case of even a very small mismatch between the assumed and the true signal parameters. For this reason, narrow-band analysis methods have been developed, allowing a fully coherent search for gravitational waves from known pulsars over a fraction of a hertz and several spin-down values. In this paper we describe a narrow-band search of 11 pulsars using data from Advanced LIGO's first observing run. Although we have found several initial outliers, further studies show no significant evidence for the presence of a gravitational wave signal. Finally, we have placed upper limits on the signal strain amplitude lower than the spin-down limit for 5 of the 11 targets over the bands searched; in the case of J1813-1749 the spin-down limit has been beaten for the first time. For an additional 3 targets, the median upper limit across the search bands is below the spin-down limit. This is the most sensitive narrow-band search for continuous gravitational waves carried out so far. © 2017 American Physical Society. | |
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Erstveröffentlichung: | 2017 |
Die Publikation erscheint in Sammlung(en): | Fakultät für Mathematik und Physik An-Institute |
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