SEARCHES FOR CONTINUOUS GRAVITATIONAL WAVES FROM NINE YOUNG SUPERNOVA REMNANTS
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Barsotti, Lisa; Biscans, Sebastien; Bodiya, Timothy P.; Brown, N. M.; Buikema, Aaron; Donovan, Frederick J.; Essick, Reed Clasey; Evans, Matthew J.; Fritschel, Peter K.; Gras, Slawek; Isogai, Tomoki; Katsavounidis, Erotokritos; Libson, Adam; Lynch, Ryan Christopher; MacInnis, Myron E.; Mason, Kenneth R.; Matichard, Fabrice; Mavalvala, Nergis; Miller, John; Mittleman, Richard K.; Mohapatra, Satya; Oelker, Eric Glenn; Shoemaker, David H.; Tse, Maggie; Vaulin, R.; Vitale, Salvatore; Weiss, Rainer; Wipf, C. C.; Yam, W.; Zhang, Fan; Zucker, Michael E.; Aggarwal, Nancy,Ph. D.Massachusetts Institute of Technology.; ... Show more Show less
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We describe directed searches for continuous gravitational waves (GWs) in data from the sixth Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) science data run. The targets were nine young supernova remnants not associated with pulsars; eight of the remnants are associated with non-pulsing suspected neutron stars. One target's parameters are uncertain enough to warrant two searches, for a total of 10. Each search covered a broad band of frequencies and first and second frequency derivatives for a fixed sky direction. The searches coherently integrated data from the two LIGO interferometers over time spans from 5.3–25.3 days using the matched-filtering F-statistic. We found no evidence of GW signals. We set 95% confidence upper limits as strong (low) as 4 × 10[superscript −25] on intrinsic strain, 2 × 10[superscript −7] on fiducial ellipticity, and 4 × 10[superscript −5] on r-mode amplitude. These beat the indirect limits from energy conservation and are within the range of theoretical predictions for neutron-star ellipticities and r-mode amplitudes.
Date issued
2015-10Department
Lincoln Laboratory; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics; MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space ResearchJournal
The Astrophysical Journal
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IOP Publishing
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Aasi, J., B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, T. Abbott, M. R. Abernathy, F. Acernese, K. Ackley, et al. “SEARCHES FOR CONTINUOUS GRAVITATIONAL WAVES FROM NINE YOUNG SUPERNOVA REMNANTS.” The Astrophysical Journal 813, no. 1 (October 27, 2015): 39. © 2015 The American Astronomical Society
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1538-4357
0004-637X