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Upper limits on gravitational wave emission from 78 radio pulsars

B. Abbott15, R. Abbott15, R. Adhikari15, J. Agresti15, P. Ajith2, B. Allen2,52, R. Amin19, S. B. Anderson15, W. G. Anderson52 et al. (LIGO Scientific Collaboration)

M. Kramer and A. G. Lyne

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  • 1Albert-Einstein-Institut, Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik, D-14476 Golm, Germany
  • 2Albert-Einstein-Institut, Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik, D-30167 Hannover, Germany
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  • 4Australian National University, Canberra, 0200, Australia
  • 5California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
  • 6California State University Dominguez Hills, Carson, California 90747, USA
  • 7Caltech-CaRT, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
  • 8Cardiff University, Cardiff, CF2 3YB, United Kingdom
  • 9Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota 55057, USA
  • 10Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, NSW 2678, Australia
  • 11Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, USA
  • 12Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott, Arizona 86301 USA
  • 13Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, New York 14456, USA
  • 14Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune–411007, India
  • 15LIGO–California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
  • 16LIGO Hanford Observatory, Richland, Washington 99352, USA
  • 17LIGO Livingston Observatory, Livingston, Louisiana 70754, USA
  • 18LIGO–Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
  • 19Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803, USA
  • 20Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, Louisiana 71272, USA
  • 21Loyola University, New Orleans, Louisiana 70118, USA
  • 22Moscow State University, Moscow, 119992, Russia
  • 23NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771, USA
  • 24National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, Tokyo 181-8588, Japan
  • 25Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA
  • 26Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York 14623, USA
  • 27Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon OX11 0QX United Kingdom
  • 28San Jose State University, San Jose, California 95192, USA
  • 29Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond, Louisiana 70402, USA
  • 30Southern University and A&M College, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70813, USA
  • 31Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
  • 32Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York 13244, USA
  • 33The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA
  • 34The University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College, Brownsville, Texas 78520, USA
  • 35Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas 78212, USA
  • 36Universitat de les Illes Balears, E-07122 Palma de Mallorca, Spain
  • 37Universität Hannover, D-30167 Hannover, Germany
  • 38University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia
  • 39University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15 2TT, United Kingdom
  • 40University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA
  • 41University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8QQ, United Kingdom
  • 42University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742 USA
  • 43University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA
  • 44University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon 97403, USA
  • 45University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627, USA
  • 46University of Salerno, 84084 Fisciano (Salerno), Italy
  • 47University of Sannio at Benevento, I-82100 Benevento, Italy
  • 48University of Southampton, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, United Kingdom
  • 49University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, G1 1XQ, United Kingdom
  • 50University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, 98195, USA
  • 51University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia
  • 52University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53201, USA
  • 53Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York 12604, USA
  • 54Washington State University, Pullman, Washington 99164, USA

  • University of Manchester, Jodrell Bank Observatory, Macclesfield, SK11 9DL, United Kingdom

  • *matthew@astro.gla.ac.uk
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Phys. Rev. D 76, 042001 – Published 3 August, 2007Erratum Phys. Rev. D 77, 069905 (2008)

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.76.042001

Abstract

We present upper limits on the gravitational wave emission from 78 radio pulsars based on data from the third and fourth science runs of the LIGO and GEO 600 gravitational wave detectors. The data from both runs have been combined coherently to maximize sensitivity. For the first time, pulsars within binary (or multiple) systems have been included in the search by taking into account the signal modulation due to their orbits. Our upper limits are therefore the first measured for 56 of these pulsars. For the remaining 22, our results improve on previous upper limits by up to a factor of 10. For example, our tightest upper limit on the gravitational strain is 2.6×10−25 for PSR J1603−7202, and the equatorial ellipticity of PSR J2124–3358 is less than 10−6. Furthermore, our strain upper limit for the Crab pulsar is only 2.2 times greater than the fiducial spin-down limit.

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Publisher’s Note: Upper limits on gravitational wave emission from 78 radio pulsars [Phys. Rev. D 76, 042001 (2007)]

B. Abbott et al. (LIGO Scientific Collaboration)
Phys. Rev. D 77, 069905 (2008)

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Phys. Rev. D 76, 042001– Published 3 August, 2007
  • Received 4 April 2007
  • Publisher error corrected 29 February 2008

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