Setting upper limits on the strength of periodic gravitational waves from PSR J1939+2134 using the first science data from the GEO 600 and LIGO detectors

Abbott, B. et al. (2004) Setting upper limits on the strength of periodic gravitational waves from PSR J1939+2134 using the first science data from the GEO 600 and LIGO detectors. Physical Review D, 69(8), (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.69.082004)

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Abstract

Data collected by the GEO 600 and LIGO interferometric gravitational wave detectors during their first observational science run were searched for continuous gravitational waves from the pulsar J1939+2134 at twice its rotation frequency. Two independent analysis methods were used and are demonstrated in this paper: a frequency domain method and a time domain method. Both achieve consistent null results, placing new upper limits on the strength of the pulsar’s gravitational wave emission. A model emission mechanism is used to interpret the limits as a constraint on the pulsar’s equatorial ellipticity.

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Refereed:Yes
Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID:Cagnoli, Dr Gianpietro and Cantley, Dr Caroline and Messenger, Dr Christopher and Casey, Dr Morag and Hough, Professor James and Barr, Dr Bryan and Ward, Professor Henry and Robertson, Dr David and Barton, Dr Mark
Authors: Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Adhikari, R., Ageev, A., Allen, B., Amin, R., Anderson, S.B., Anderson, W.G., Araya, M., Armandula, H., Asiri, F., Aufmuth, P., Aulbert, C., Babak, S., Balasubramanian, R., Ballmer, S., Barish, B.C., Barker, D., Barker-Patton, C., Barnes, M., Barr, B., Barton, M.A., Bayer, K., Beausoleil, R., Belczynski, K., Bennett, R., Berukoff, S.J., Betzwieser, J., Bhawal, B., Bilenko, I.A., Billingsley, G., Black, E., Blackburn, K., Bland-Weaver, B., Bochner, B., Bogue, L., Bork, R., Bose, S., Brady, P.R., Braginsky, V.B., Brau, J.E., Brown, D.A., Brozek, S., Bullington, A., Buonanno, A., Burgess, R., Busby, D., Butler, W.E., Byer, R.L., Cadonati, L., Cagnoli, G., Campbell, J.B., Cantley, C.A., Cardenas, L., Carter, K., Casey, M.M., Castiglione, J., Chandler, A., Chapsky, J., Charlton, P., Chatterji, S., Chen, Y., Chickarmane, V., Chin, D., Christensen, N., Churches, D., Colacino, C., Coldwell, R., Coles, M., Cook, D., Corbitt, T., Coyne, D., Creighton, J.D.E., Creighton, T.D., Crooks, D.R.M., Csatorday, P., Cusack, B.J., Cutler, C., DAmbrosio, E., Danzmann, K., Davies, R., Daw, E., DeBra, D., Delker, T., DeSalvo, R., Dhurandhar, S., Diaz, M., Ding, H., Drever, R.W.P., Dupuis, R.J., Ebeling, C., Edlund, J., Ehrens, P., Elliffe, E.J., Etzel, T., Evans, M., Evans, T., Fallnich, C., Farnham, D., Fejer, M.M., Fine, M., Finn, L.S., Flanagan, E., Freise, A., Frey, R., Fritschel, P., Frolov, V., Fyffe, M., Ganezer, K.S., Giaime, J.A., Gillespie, A., Goda, K., Gonzalez, G., Gossler, S., Grandclement, P., Grant, A., Gray, C., Gretarsson, A.M., Grimmett, D., Grote, H., Grunewald, S., Guenther, M., Gustafson, E., Gustafson, R., Hamilton, W.O., Hammond, M., Hanson, J., Hardham, C., Harry, G., Hartunian, A., Heefner, J., Hefetz, Y., Heinzel, G., Heng, I., Hennessy, M., Hepler, N., Heptonstall, A., Heurs, M., Hewitson, M., Hindman, N., Hoang, P., Hough, J., Hrynevych, M., Hua, W., Ingley, R., Ito, M., Itoh, Y., Ivanov, A., Jennrich, O., Johnson, W.W., Johnston, W., Jones, L., Jungwirth, D., Kalogera, V., Katsavounidis, E., Kawabe, K., Kawamura, S., Kells, W., Kern, J., Khan, A., Killbourn, S., Killow, C.J., Kim, C., King, C., King, P., Klimenko, S., Kloevekorn, P., Koranda, S., Kotter, K., Kovalik, J., Kozak, D., Krishnan, B., Landry, M., Langdale, J., Lantz, B., Lawrence, R., Lazzarini, A., Lei, M., Leonhardt, V., Leonor, I., Libbrecht, K., Lindquist, P., Liu, S., Logan, J., Lormand, M., Lubinski, M., Luck, H., Lyons, T.T., Machenschalk, B., MacInnis, M., Mageswaran, M., Mailand, K., Majid, W., Malec, M., Mann, F., Marin, A., Marka, S., Maros, E., Mason, J., Mason, K., Matherny, O., Matone, L., Mavalvala, N., McCarthy, R., McClelland, D.E., McHugh, M., McNamara, P., Mendell, G., Meshkov, S., Messenger, C., Mitrofanov, V.P., Mitselmakher, G., Mittleman, R., Miyakawa, O., Miyoki, S., Mohanty, S., Moreno, G., Mossavi, K., Mours, B., Mueller, G., Mukherjee, S., Myers, J., Nagano, S., Nash, T., Naundorf, H., Nayak, R., Newton, G., Nocera, F., Nutzman, P., Olson, T., OReilly, B., Ottaway, D.J., Ottewill, A., Ouimette, D., Overmier, H., Owen, B.J., Papa, M.A., Parameswariah, C., Parameswariah, V., Pedraza, M., Penn, S., Pitkin, M., Plissi, M., Pratt, M., Quetschke, V., Raab, F., Radkins, H., Rahkola, R., Rakhmanov, M., Rao, S.R., Redding, D., Regehr, M.W., Regimbau, T., Reilly, K.T., Reithmaier, K., Reitze, D.H., Richman, S., Riesen, R., Riles, K., Rizzi, A., Robertson, D.I., Robertson, N.A., Robison, L., Roddy, S., Rollins, J., Romano, J.D., Romie, J., Rong, H., Rose, D., Rotthoff, E., Rowan, S., Rudiger, A., Russell, P., Ryan, K., Salzman, I., Sanders, G.H., Sannibale, V., Sathyaprakash, B., Saulson, P.R., Savage, R., Sazonov, A., Schilling, R., Schlaufman, K., Schmidt, V., Schofield, R., Schrempel, M., Schutz, B.F., Schwinberg, P., Scott, S.M., Searle, A.C., Sears, B., Seel, S., Sengupta, A.S., Shapiro, C.A., Shawhan, P., Shoemaker, D.H., Shu, Q.Z., Sibley, A., Siemens, X., Sievers, L., Sigg, D., Sintes, A.M., Skeldon, K., Smith, J.R., Smith, M., Smith, M.R., Sneddon, P., Spero, R., Stapfer, G., Strain, K., Strom, D., Stuver, A., Summerscales, T., Sumner, M.C., Sutton, P.J., Sylvestre, J., Takamori, A., Tanner, D.B., Tariq, H., Taylor, I., Taylor, R., Thorne, K.S., Tibbits, M., Tilav, S., Tinto, M., Tokmakov, K.V., Torres, C., Torrie, C., Traeger, S., Traylor, G., Tyler, W., Ugolini, D., Vallisneri, M., van Putten, M., Vass, S., Vecchio, A., Vorvick, C., Vyachanin, S.P., Wallace, L., Walther, H., Ward, H., Ware, B., Watts, K., Webber, D., Weidner, A., Weiland, U., Weinstein, A., Weiss, R., Welling, H., Wen, L., Wen, S., Whelan, J.T., Whitcomb, S.E., Whiting, B.F., Willems, P.A., Williams, P.R., Williams, R., Willke, B., Wilson, A., Winjum, B.J., Winkler, W., Wise, S., Wiseman, A.G., Woan, G., Wooley, R., Worden, J., Yakushin, I., Yamamoto, H., Yoshida, S., Zawischa, I., Zhang, L., Zotov, N., Zucker, M., and Zweizig, J.
College/School:College of Science and Engineering > School of Physics and Astronomy
Research Centre:College of Science and Engineering > School of Physics and Astronomy > Institute for Gravitational Research
Journal Name:Physical Review D
Publisher:American Physical Society
ISSN:1550-7998
ISSN (Online):1089-4918

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