All-sky search for periodic gravitational waves in the full S5 LIGO data

Year: 2012

Authors: Abadie J., Abbott B. P., Abbott R., Abbott T.D., Abernathy M., Accadia T., Acernese F., Adams C., Adhikari R., Affeldt C., Ajith P., Allen B., Allen G., Amador Ceron E., Amariutei D., Amin R. S., Anderson S. B., Anderson W. G., Arai K., Arain M. A., Araya M., Aston S., Astone P., Atkinson D., Aufmuth P., Aulbert C., Aylott B.E., Babak S., Baker P., Ballardin G., Ballmer S., Barker D., Barone F., Barr B., Barriga P. Barsotti L., Barsuglia M., Barton M.A., Bartos I., Bassiri R., Bastarrika M., Basti A., Batch J., Bauchrowitz, Bauer Th. S., Bebronne M., Behnke B., Beker M.G., Bell A. S., Belletoile A., Belopolski I., Benacquista M., Berliner J.M., Bertolini A., Betzwieser J., Beveridge N., Beyersdorf P.T., Bilenko I.A., Billingsley G ., Birch JK., Biswas R., Bitossi M., Bizouard M.A., Black E., Blackburn J.K., Blackburn L., Blair D., Bland B., Blom M., Bock O., Bodiya T. P., Bogan C., Bondarescu R., Bondu F., Bonelli L., Bonnand R., Bork R., Born M., Boschi V., Bose S., Bosi L., Bouhou B., Braccini S., Bradaschia C., Brady P.R., Braginsky V.B., Branchesi M., Brau J.E., Breyer J., Briant T., Bridges D.O., Brillet A., Brinkmann M., Brisson V., Britzger M., Brooks A.F., Brown D.A., Brummit A., Bulik T., Bulten H.J., Buonanno A., Burguet-Castell J., Burmeister O., Buskulic D., Buy C., Byer R.L., Cadonati L., Cagnoli G., Calloni E., Camp J.B., Campsie P., Cannizzo J., Cannon K., Canuel B., Cao J., Capano C.D., Carbognani F., Caride S., Caudill S., Cavaglia M., Cavalier F., Cavalieri R., Cella G., Cepeda C., Cesarini E., Chaibi O., Chalermsongsak T., Chalkley E., Charlton P., Chassande-Mottin E., Chelkowski S., Chen Y., Chincarini A., Chiummo A., Cho h., Christensen N., Chua S.S.Y., Chung C.T.Y., Chung S., Ciani G., Clara F., Clark D.E., Clark J., Clayton J.H., Cleva F., Coccia E., Cohadon P.-F., Colacino C.N., Colas J., Colla A., Colombini M., Conte A., Conte R., Cook D., Corbitt T.R.C., Cordier M., Cornish N., Corsi A., Costa C.A., Coughlin M., Coulon J.P., Couvares P., Coward D.M., Coyne D.C., Creighton J.D.E., Creighton T.D., Cruise A. M., Cumming A., Cunningham L., Cuoco E., Cutler R.M., Dahl K., Danilishin S.L., Dannenberg R., D’Antonio S., Danzmann K., Dattilo V., Daudert B., Daveloza., Davier M., Davies G., Daw E.J., Day R., Dayanga T., De Rosa R., DeBra D., Debreczeni G., Degallaix J., Del Pozzo W., del Prete M., Dent T., Dergachev V., DeRosa r., DeSalvo R., Dhurandhar S., Di Fiore L., DiGuglielmo J., Di Lieto A., Di Palma I., Di Paolo Emilio M., Di Virgilio A., Diaz M., Dietz A., Donovan F., Dooley K.L., Dorsher S., Drago M., Drever R.W.P., Driggers J., Du Z., Dumas J.C., Dwyer S., Eberle T., Edgar M., Edwards M., Effler A., Ehrens P., Endroczi G., Engel R., Etzel T., Evans K., Evans M., Evans T., Factourovich M., Fafone V., Fairhurst S., Fan Y., Farr B.F., Farr W., Fazi D., Fehrmann H., Feldbaum D., Ferrante I., Fidecaro F., Finn L.S., Fiori I., Fisher R.P., Flaminio R. 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Autors Affiliation: LIGO Calif Inst Technol, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA; Calif State Univ Fullerton, Fullerton, CA 92831 USA; Univ Glasgow, SUPA, Glasgow G12 8QQ, Lanark, Scotland; Univ Savoie, Lab Annecy Le Vieux Phys Particules LAPP, CNRS IN2P3, F-74941 Annecy Le Vieux, France; Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Napoli, Naples, Italy; Univ Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy; Complesso Univ Monte S Angelo, I-80126 Naples, Italy; Univ Salerno, I-84084 Salerno, Italy; LIGO Livingston Observ, Livingston, LA 70754 USA; Max Planck Inst Gravitat Phys, Albert Einstein Inst, D-30167 Hannover, Germany; Leibniz Univ Hannover, D-30167 Hannover, Germany; Univ Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI 53201 USA; Stanford Univ, Stanford, CA 94305 USA; Univ Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611 USA; Louisiana State Univ, Baton Rouge, LA 70803 USA; Univ Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, W Midlands, England; Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Roma, I-00185 Rome, Italy; Univ Roma La Sapienza, I-00185 Rome, Italy; LIGO Hanford Observ, Richland, WA 99352 USA; Max Planck Inst Gravitat Phys, Albert Einstein Inst, D-14476 Golm, Germany; Montana State Univ, Bozeman, MT 59717 USA; European Gravitat Observ, I-56021 Cascina, PI, Italy; Syracuse Univ, Syracuse, NY 13244 USA; Univ Western Australia, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia; LIGO Massachusetts Inst Technol, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA; Univ Paris Diderot, Lab AstroParticule & Cosmol APC, CNRS IN2P3, CEA DSM IRFU,Observ Paris, F-75013 Paris, France; Columbia Univ, New York, NY 10027 USA; Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Pisa, Pisa, Italy; Univ Pisa, I-56100 Pisa, Italy; Univ Siena, I-53100 Siena, Italy; Nikhef, Amsterdam, Netherlands; Vrije Univ Amsterdam, NL-1081 HV Amsterdam, Netherlands; Univ Texas Brownsville & Texas Southmost Coll, Brownsville, TX 78520 USA; San Jose State Univ, San Jose, CA 95192 USA; Moscow MV Lomonosov State Univ, Moscow 119992, Russia; Univ Paris 11, LAL, IN2P3, CNRS, F-91898 Orsay, France; CNRS, ESPCI, F-75005 Paris, France; NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA; Penn State Univ, University Pk, PA 16802 USA; 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Abstract: We report on an all-sky search for periodic gravitational waves in the frequency band 50-800 Hz and with the frequency time derivative in the range of 0 through -6 x 10(-9) Hz/s. Such a signal could be produced by a nearby spinning and slightly nonaxisymmetric isolated neutron star in our Galaxy. After recent improvements in the search program that yielded a 10x increase in computational efficiency, we have searched in two years of data collected during LIGO\’s fifth science run and have obtained the most sensitive all-sky upper limits on gravitational-wave strain to date. Near 150 Hz our upper limit on worst-case linearly polarized strain amplitude h0 is 1  1024, while at the high end of our frequency range we achieve a worst-case upper limit of 3:8  1024 for all polarizations and sky locations. These results constitute a factor of 2 improvement upon previously published data. A new detection pipeline utilizing a loosely coherent algorithm was able to follow up weaker outliers, increasing the volume of space where signals can be detected by a factor of 10, but has not revealed any gravitational-wave signals. The pipeline has been tested for robustness with respect to deviations from the model of an isolated neutron star, such as caused by a low-mass or long-period binary companion.

Journal/Review: PHYSICAL REVIEW D

Volume: 85 (2)      Pages from: 022001  to: 022001

More Information: The authors gratefully acknowledge the support of the United States National Science Foundation for the construction and operation of the LIGO Laboratory, the Science and Technology Facilities Council of the United Kingdom, the Max-Planck-Society, the State of Niedersachsen/Germany for support of the construction and operation of the GEO600 detector, and the Italian Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare and the French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique for the construction and operation of the Virgo detector. The authors also gratefully acknowledge the support of the research by these agencies and by the Australian Research Council, the International Science Linkages program of the Commonwealth of Australia, the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research of India, the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare of Italy, the Spanish Ministerio de Educacion y Ciencia, the Conselleria d\’Economia Hisenda i Innovacio of the Govern de les Illes Balears, the Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter supported by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education, the FOCUS Programme of Foundation for Polish Science, the Royal Society, the Scottish Funding Council, the Scottish Universities Physics Alliance, The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the Carnegie Trust, the Leverhulme Trust, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the Research Corporation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. This document has been assigned LIGO Laboratory Document No. LIGO-P1100029-v36.
KeyWords: gravitational waves; science run; limit
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.85.022001

Citations: 58
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