Upper limits on the strength of periodic gravitational waves from PSR J1939+2134

Allen, B. et al. (2004) Upper limits on the strength of periodic gravitational waves from PSR J1939+2134. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 21(5), S671. (doi: 10.1088/0264-9381/21/5/042)

Abstract

The first science run of the LIGO and GEO gravitational wave detectors presented the opportunity to test methods of searching for gravitational waves from known pulsars. Here we present new direct upper limits on the strength of waves from the pulsar PSR J1939+2134 using two independent analysis methods, one in the frequency domain using frequentist statistics and one in the time domain using Bayesian inference. Both methods show that the strain amplitude at Earth from this pulsar is less than a few times 10⁻²².

• Item Type: Articles
• Status: Published
• Refereed: Yes
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Heptonstall, Dr Alastair and Grant, Mr Alastair and Cagnoli, Dr Gianpietro and Cantley, Dr Caroline and Messenger, Dr Christopher and Casey, Dr Morag and Barr, Dr Bryan and Robertson, Dr David and Plissi, Dr Michael and Woan, Professor Graham and Crooks, Dr David and Hough, Professor James and Ward, Professor Henry and Newton, Dr Gavin and Sneddon, Dr Peter and Torrie, Dr Calum and Pitkin, Dr Matthew
• Authors: Allen, B., Woan, G., Collaboration):, (f. t. L. S., Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Adhikari, R., 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., Billingsley, G., Black, E., Blackburn, K., Bland-Weaver, B., Bochner, B., Bogue, L., Bork, R., Bose, S., Brady, P. R., 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., Camp, J. B., Cantley, C., Cardenas, L., Carter, K., Casey, 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., D'Ambrosio, E., Danzmann, K., Davies, R., Daw, E., DeBra, D., Delker, T., DeSalvo, R., Dhurandar, S., Díaz, 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, É., Freise, A., Frey, R., Fritschel, P., Frolov, V., Fyffe, M., Ganezer, K. S., Giaime, J. A., Gillespie, A., Goda, K., González, G., Goßler, S., Grandclément, 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. S., 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., Kim, C., King, C., King, P., Klimenko, S., Kloevekorn, P., Koranda, S., Kötter, 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., Lück, H., Lyons, T. T., Machenschalk, B., MacInnis, M., Mageswaran, M., Mailand, K., Majid, W., Malec, M., Mann, F., Marin, A., Márka, 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., 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., O'Reilly, 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., Rüdiger, 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.A., 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., Torres, C., Torrie, C., Traeger, S., Traylor, G., Tyler, W., Ugolini, D., Vallisneri, M., van Putten, M., Vass, S., Vecchio, A., Vorvick, C., Wallace, L., Walther, H., Ward, H., Ware, B., Watts, D., 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: Classical and Quantum Gravity
• ISSN: 0264-9381