J/ApJ/713/671 Gravitational waves from pulsars (Abbott+, 2010)
Searches for gravitational waves from known pulsars with science run 5 LIGO
data.
Abbott B.P., Abbott R., Acernese F., Adhikari R., Ajith P., Allen B.,
Allen G., Alshourbagy M., Amin R.S., Anderson S.B., Anderson W.G.,
Antonucci F., Aoudia S., Arain M.A., Araya M., Armandula H., Armor P.,
Arun K.G., Aso Y., Aston S., Astone P., Aufmuth P., Aulbert C., Babak S.,
Baker P., Ballardin G., Ballmer S., Barker C., Barker D., Barone F.,
Barr B., Barriga P., Barsotti L., Barsuglia M., Barton M.A., Bartos I.,
Bassiri R., Bastarrika M., Bauer TH.S., Behnke B., Beker M.,
Benacquista M., Betzwieser J., Beyersdorf P.T., Bigotta S., Bilenko I.A.,
Billingsley G., Birindelli S., Biswas R., Bizouard M.A., Black E.,
Blackburn J.K., Blackburn L., Blair D., Bland B., Boccara C., Bodiya T.P.,
Bogue L., Bondu F., Bonelli L., Bork R., Boschi V., Bose S., Bosi L.,
Braccini S., Bradaschia C., Brady P.R., Braginsky V.B., Brau J.E.,
Bridges D.O., Brillet A., Brinkmann M., Brisson V., Van Den Broeck C.,
Brooks A.F., Brown D.A., Brummit A., Brunet G., Budzynski R., Bulik T.,
Bullington A., Bulten H.J., Buonanno A., Burmeister O., Buskulic D.,
Byer R.L., Cadonati L., Cagnoli G., Calloni E., Camp J.B., Campagna E.,
Cannizzo J., Cannon K.C., Canuel B., Cao J., Carbognani F., Cardenas L.,
Caride S., Castaldi G., Caudill S., Cavaglia M., Cavalier F., Cavalieri R.,
Cella G., Cepeda C., Cesarini E., Chalermsongsak T., Chalkley E.,
Charlton P., Chassande-Mottin E., Chatterji S., Chelkowski S., Chen Y.,
Chincarini A., Christensen N., Chung C.T.Y., Clark D., Clark J.,
Clayton J.H., Cleva F., Coccia E., Cokelaer T., Colacino C.N., Colas J.,
Colla A., Colombini M., Conte R., Cook D., Corbitt T.R.C., Corda C.,
Cornish N., Corsi A., Coulon J.-P., Coward D., Coyne D.C.,
Creighton J.D.E., Creighton T.D., Cruise A.M., Culter R.M., Cumming A.,
Cunningham L., Cuoco E., Danilishin S.L., D'Antonio S., Danzmann K.,
Dari A., Dattilo V., Daudert B., Davier M., Davies G., Daw E.J., Day R.,
De Rosa R., DeBra D., Degallaix J., del Prete M., Dergachev V., Desai S.,
DeSalvo R., Dhurandhar S., Di Fiore L., Di Lieto A., Di Paolo Emilio M.,
Di Virgilio A., Diaz M., Dietz A., Donovan F., Dooley K.L., Doomes E.E.,
Drago M., Drever R.W.P., Dueck J., Duke I., Dumas J.-C., Dwyer J.G.,
Echols C., Edgar M., Effler A., Ehrens P., Espinoza E., Etzel T., Evans M.,
Evans T., Fafone V., Fairhurst S., Faltas Y., Fan Y., Fazi D., Fehrmann H.,
Ferrante I., Fidecaro F., Finn L.S., Fiori I., Flaminio R., Flasch K.,
Foley S., Forrest C., Fotopoulos N., Fournier J.-D., Franc J., Franzen A.,
Frasca S., Frasconi F., Frede M., Frei M., Frei Z., Freise A., Frey R.,
Fricke T., Fritschel P., Frolov V.V., Fyffe M., Galdi V., Gammaitoni L.,
Garofoli J.A., Garufi F., Gemme G., Genin E., Gennai A., Gholami I.,
Giaime J.A., Giampanis S., Giardina K.D., Giazotto A., Goda K., Goetz E.,
Goggin L.M., Gonzalez G., Gorodetsky M.L., Gossler S., Gouaty R.,
Granata M., Granata V., Grant A., Gras S., Gray C., Gray M.,
Greenhalgh R.J.S., Gretarsson A.M., Greverie C., Grimaldi F., Grosso R.,
Grote H., Grunewald S., Guenther M., Guidi G., Gustafson E.K.,
Gustafson R., Hage B., Hallam J.M., Hammer D., Hammond G.D., Hanna C.,
Hanson J., Harms J., Harry G.M., Harry I.W., Harstad E.D., Haughian K.,
Hayama K., Heefner J., Heitmann H., Hello P., Heng I.S., Heptonstall A.,
Hewitson M., Hild S., Hirose E., Hoak D., Hodge K.A., Holt K., Hosken D.J.,
Hough J., Hoyland D., Huet D., Hughey B., Huttner S.H., Ingram D.R.,
Isogai T., Ito M., Ivanov A., Jaranowski P., Johnson B., Johnson W.W.,
Jones D.I., Jones G., Jones R., Sancho de la Jordana L., Ju L., Kalmus P.,
Kalogera V., Kandhasamy S., Kanner J., Kasprzyk D., Katsavounidis E.,
Kawabe K., Kawamura S., Kawazoe F., Kells W., Keppel D.G., Khalaidovski A.,
Khalili F.Y., Khan R., Khazanov E., King P., Kissel J.S., Klimenko S.,
Kokeyama K., Kondrashov V., Kopparapu R., Koranda S., Kowalska I.,
Kozak D., Krishnan B., Krolak A., Kumar R., Kwee P., La Penna P., Lam P.K.,
Landry M., Lantz B., Lazzarini A., Lei H., Lei M., Leindecker N.,
Leonor I., Leroy N., Letendre N., Li C., Lin H., Lindquist P.E.,
Littenberg T.B., Lockerbie N.A., Lodhia D., Longo M., Lorenzini M.,
Loriette V., Lormand M., Losurdo G., Lu P., Lubinski M., Lucianetti A.,
Luck H., Machenschalk B., MacInnis M., Mackowski J.-M., Mageswaran M.,
Mailand K., Majorana E., Man N., Mandel I., Mandic V., Mantovani M.,
Marchesoni F., Marion F., Marka S., Marka Z., Markosyan A., Markowitz J.,
Maros E., Marque J., Martelli F., Martin I.W., Martin R.M., Marx J.N.,
Mason K., Masserot A., Matichard F., Matone L., Matzner R.A., Mavalvala N.,
McCarthy R., McClelland D.E., McGuire S.C., McHugh M., McIntyre G.,
McKechan D.J.A., McKenzie K., Mehmet M., Melatos A., Melissinos A.C.,
Mendell G., Menendez D.F., Menzinger F., Mercer R.A., Meshkov S.,
Messenger C., Meyer M.S., Michel C., Milano L., Miller J., Minelli J.,
Minenkov Y., Mino Y., Mitrofanov V.P., Mitselmakher G., Mittleman R.,
Miyakawa O., Moe B., Mohan M., Mohanty S.D., Mohapatra S.R.P., Moreau J.,
Moreno G., Morgado N., Morgia A., Morioka T., Mors K., Mosca S.,
Moscatelli V., Mossavi K., Mours B., Mowlowry C., Mueller G., Muhammad D.,
zur Muhlen H., Mukherjee S., Mukhopadhyay H., Mullavey A.,
Muller-Ebhardt H., Munch J., Murray P.G., Myers E., Myers J., Nash T.,
Nelson J., Neri I., Newton G., Nishizawa A., Nocera F., Numata K.,
Ochsner E., O'Dell J., Ogin G.H., O'Reilly B., O'Shaughnessy R.,
Ottaway D.J., Ottens R.S., Overmier H., Owen B.J., Pagliaroli G.,
Palomba C., Pan Y., Pankow C., Paoletti F., Papa M.A., Parameshwaraiah V.,
Pardi S., Pasqualetti A., Passaquieti R., Passuello D., Patel P.,
Pedraza M., Penn S., Perreca A., Persichetti G., Pichot M.,
Piergiovanni F., Pierro V., Pietka M., Pinard L., Pinto I.M., Pitkin M.,
Pletsch H.J., Plissi M.V., Poggiani R., Postiglione F., Prato M.,
Principe M., Prix R., Prodi G.A., Prokhorov L., Puncken O., Punturo M.,
Puppo P., Quetschke V., Raab F.J., Rabaste O., Rabeling D.S., Radkins H.,
Raffai P., Raics Z., Rainer N., Rakhmanov M., Rapagnani P., Raymond V.,
Re V., Reed C.M., Reed T., Regimbau T., Rehbein H., Reid S., Reitze D.H.,
Ricci F., Riesen R., Riles K., Rivera B., Roberts P., Robertson N.A.,
Robinet F., Robinson C., Robinson E.L., Rocchi A., Roddy S., Rolland L.,
Rollins J., Romano J.D., Romano R., Romie J.H., Rosinska D., Rover C.,
Rowan S., Rudiger A., Ruggi P., Russell P., Ryan K., Sakata S., Salemi F.,
Sandberg V., Sannibale V., Santamaria L., Saraf S., Sarin P., Sassolas B.,
Sathyaprakash B.S., Sato S., Satterthwaite M., Saulson P.R., Savage R.,
Savov P., Scanlan M., Schilling R., Schnabel R., Schofield R., Schulz B.,
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Shawhan P., Shoemaker D.H., Sibley A., Siemens X., Sigg D., Sinha S.,
Sintes A.M., Slagmolen B.J.J., Slutsky J., van der Sluys M.V., Smith J.R.,
Smith M.R., Smith N.D., Somiya K., Sorazu B., Stein A., Stein L.C.,
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Torrie C., Tournefier E., Travasso F., Traylor G., Trias M., Trummer J.,
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(the Ligo Scientific Collaboration The Virgo Collaboration), Begin S.,
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<Astrophys. J., 713, 671-685 (2010)>
=2010ApJ...713..671A 2010ApJ...713..671A (SIMBAD/NED BibCode)
ADC_Keywords: Pulsars ; Radio sources
Keywords: gravitational waves - pulsars: general
Abstract:
We present a search for gravitational waves from 116 known millisecond
and young pulsars using data from the fifth science run of the LIGO
detectors. For this search, ephemerides overlapping the run period
were obtained for all pulsars using radio and X-ray observations. We
demonstrate an updated search method that allows for small
uncertainties in the pulsar phase parameters to be included in the
search. We report no signal detection from any of the targets and
therefore interpret our results as upper limits on the gravitational
wave signal strength. The most interesting limits are those for young
pulsars. We present updated limits on gravitational radiation from the
Crab pulsar, where the measured limit is now a factor of 7 below the
spin-down limit. This limits the power radiated via gravitational
waves to be less than ∼2% of the available spin-down power. For the
X-ray pulsar J0537-6910 we reach the spin-down limit under the
assumption that any gravitational wave signal from it stays phase
locked to the X-ray pulses over timing glitches, and for pulsars
J1913+1011 and J1952+3252 we are only a factor of a few above the
spin-down limit. Of the recycled millisecond pulsars, several of the
measured upper limits are only about an order of magnitude above their
spin-down limits. For these our best (lowest) upper limit on
gravitational wave amplitude is 2.3x10-26 for J1603-7202 and our
best (lowest) limit on the inferred pulsar ellipticity is 7.0x10-8
for J2124-3358.
Description:
The radio pulsar parameters used for our searches are based on ongoing
radio pulsar monitoring programs, using data from the Jodrell Bank
Observatory (JBO), the NRAO 100m Green Bank Telescope (GBT), and the
Parkes radio telescope of the Australia Telescope National Facility.
We used radio data coincident with the S5 run as these would reliably
represent the pulsars' actual phase evolution during our searches. We
obtained data for 44 pulsars from JBO (including the Crab pulsar
ephemeris), 39 pulsars within the Terzan 5 and M28 globular clusters
from GBT, and 47 from Parkes, including pulsars timed as part of the
Parkes Pulsar Timing Array (Manchester 2008AIPC..983..584M 2008AIPC..983..584M). For 15 of
these pulsars there were observations from more than one site, making
a total of 115 radio pulsars in the analysis (see Table 1 for list of
the pulsars, including the observatory and time span of the
observations).
File Summary:
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table1.dat 83 113 Information on the non-glitching pulsars in our
search, including the start and end times of the
radio observations used in producing the parameter
fits for our search, and upper limit results
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See also:
VII/189 : Catalog of Pulsars (Taylor+ 1995)
J/AZh/88/954 : Geometry of radio pulsar magnetospheres (Malov+, 2011)
J/AZh/88/22 : Angles rotation/magnetic moment in pulsars (Malov+, 2011)
J/other/PASA/27.64 : Parkes Radio Telescope pulsar timing (Weltevrede+, 2010)
J/AZh/87/238 : Pulse profiles of radio pulsars at 102 and 111MHz (Malov+,
2010)
J/AZh/84/685 : Scattering of pulsar radio emission (Kuz'min+, 2007)
J/MNRAS/372/777 : Parkes Multibeam Pulsar Survey. VI. (Lorimer+, 2006)
J/MNRAS/353/1311 : Long-term timing observations of 374 pulsars (Hobbs+, 2004)
J/AZh/79/501 : Radio luminosities of normal + millisecond pulsars (Kuz'min,
2002)
J/A+AS/147/195 : Pulsar spectra of radio emission (Maron+, 2000)
J/A+A/339/123 : PSR J1012+5307 evolutionary tracks (Driebe+ 1998)
Byte-by-byte Description of file: table1.dat
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Bytes Format Units Label Explanations
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1- 12 A12 --- PSR Pulsar identification (JHHMM+DDMMA;
sometimes J1748+2446aa)
14- 17 A4 --- n_PSR Pulsar pecularities (1)
19- 23 I5 d MJDst Start Modified Julian Date of the observation
24 A1 --- --- [-]
25- 29 I5 d MJDend End Modified Julian Date of the observation
31- 36 F6.2 Hz nu Spin-frequency ν
38- 45 E8.2 Hz/s dnu/dt Spin-down rate
47 A1 --- n_dnu/dt [a] corrected spin-down (1)
49- 51 F3.1 kpc Dist Distance of pulsar
53- 60 E8.3 --- sd Spin-down limit
62- 69 E8.3 --- h095 Joint 95% upper limits on h0 (strain tensor
amplitude)
71- 77 E7.3 --- ell Equatorial ellipticity ε=(Ixx-Iyy)/Izz
(Izz = pulsar's principal moment of inertia)
79- 83 F5.1 --- h95/hsd Ratio h95%0/hsd0 (hsd0: spin-down
limit on strain tensor amplitude)
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Note (1): Flag as follows:
a = The pulsar's spin-down is corrected for proper motion effects.
b = The pulsar is within a binary system.
c = The pulsar is within a globular cluster.
g = The pulsar was observed by the GBT.
j = The pulsar was observed by the JBO.
p = The pulsar was observed by the Parkes Observatory.
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(End) Emmanuelle Perret [CDS] 13-Apr-2012