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First Search for Gravitational Waves from Known Pulsars with Advanced LIGO

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LIGO Collaboration; Virgo Collaboration; Kontos, Antonios; Lanza Jr, Robert K; Libson, Adam A.; Lynch, Ryan Christopher; MacInnis, Myron E; Martynov, Denis; Mason, Kenneth R; Matichard, Fabrice; Mavalvala, Nergis; Miller, John; Mittleman, Richard K; Ray Pitambar Mohapatra, Satyanarayan; Oelker, Eric Glenn; Shoemaker, David H; Tse, Maggie; Vitale, Salvatore; Weiss, Rainer; Yam, William; Yu, Hang; Yu, Haocun; Zucker, Michael E; ... Show more Show less
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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 spin-down 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.
Date issued
2017-04
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/112086
Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics; MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research
Journal
Astrophysical Journal
Publisher
IOP Publishing
Citation
Abbott, B. P., et al. “First Search for Gravitational Waves from Known Pulsars with Advanced LIGO.” The Astrophysical Journal 839, 1 (April 2017): 12 © 2017 The American Astronomical Society
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1538-4357
0004-637X

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