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Directed search for continuous gravitational waves from the Galactic center

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Aggarwal, Nancy; Barnum, Sam; Barsotti, Lisa; Essick, Reed Clasey; Isogai, Tomoki; Katsavounidis, Erotokritos; Kissel, Jeffrey S.; Kwee, Patrick; Lee, J.; Matichard, Fabrice; Mavalvala, Nergis; Oelker, Eric Glenn; Vaulin, Ruslan; Vitale, Salvatore; Weiss, Rainer; Zhang, Fan; Bodiya, Timothy P.; Foley, Stephany; Gras, Slawomir; MacInnis, Myron E; Mittleman, Richard K; Shoemaker, David H; Donovan, Frederick J; Evans, Matthew J; Fritschel, Peter K; Mason, Kenneth R; Waldman, Samuel J.; Wipf, Christopher C.; Zucker, Michael E; ... Show more Show less
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Abstract
We present the results of a directed search for continuous gravitational waves from unknown, isolated neutron stars in the Galactic center region, performed on two years of data from LIGO’s fifth science run from two LIGO detectors. The search uses a semicoherent approach, analyzing coherently 630 segments, each spanning 11.5 hours, and then incoherently combining the results of the single segments. It covers gravitational wave frequencies in a range from 78 to 496 Hz and a frequency-dependent range of first-order spindown values down to −7.86 × 10[superscript −8]  Hz/s at the highest frequency. No gravitational waves were detected. The 90% confidence upper limits on the gravitational wave amplitude of sources at the Galactic center are ~3.35 × 10[superscript −25] for frequencies near 150 Hz. These upper limits are the most constraining to date for a large-parameter-space search for continuous gravitational wave signals.
Date issued
2013-11
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/84832
Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics; LIGO (Observatory : Massachusetts Institute of Technology); MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research
Journal
Physical Review D
Publisher
American Physical Society
Citation
Aasi, J., J. Abadie, B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, T. Abbott, M. R. Abernathy, T. Accadia, et al. “Directed search for continuous gravitational waves from the Galactic center.” Physical Review D 88, no. 10 (November 2013). © 2013 American Physical Society
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1550-7998
1550-2368

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