J/ApJ/785/119 Gravitational waves from known pulsars (Aasi+, 2014)
Gravitational waves from known pulsars: results from the initial detector era.
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<Astrophys. J., 785, 119 (2014)>
=2014ApJ...785..119A 2014ApJ...785..119A (SIMBAD/NED BibCode)
ADC_Keywords: Pulsars ; Stars, distances
Keywords: gravitational waves - pulsars: general
Abstract:
We present the results of searches for gravitational waves from a
large selection of pulsars using data from the most recent science
runs (S6, VSR2 and VSR4) of the initial generation of interferometric
gravitational wave detectors LIGO (Laser Interferometric
Gravitational-wave Observatory) and Virgo. We do not see evidence for
gravitational wave emission from any of the targeted sources but
produce upper limits on the emission amplitude. We highlight the
results from seven young pulsars with large spin-down luminosities. We
reach within a factor of five of the canonical spin-down limit for all
seven of these, whilst for the Crab and Vela pulsars we further
surpass their spin-down limits. We present new or updated limits for
172 other pulsars (including both young and millisecond pulsars). Now
that the detectors are undergoing major upgrades, and, for
completeness, we bring together all of the most up-to-date results
from all pulsars searched for during the operations of the
first-generation LIGO, Virgo and GEO600 detectors. This gives a total
of 195 pulsars including the most recent results described in this
paper.
Description:
In this paper we have used calibrated data from the Virgo second
(Aasi et al. 2012CQGra..29o5002A 2012CQGra..29o5002A) and fourth science runs (VSR2 and VSR4)
and the LIGO sixth science run (S6). Virgo's third science run
(VSR3) was relatively insensitive in comparison with VSR4 and has not
been included in this analysis. This was partially because Virgo
introduced monolithic mirror suspensions prior to VSR4 which improved
sensitivity in the low-frequency range. During S6, the two LIGO 4 km
detectors at Hanford, Washington (LHO/H1), and Livingston, Louisiana
(LLO/L1), were running in an enhanced configuration (Adhikari et al.
2006, Enhanced LIGO, Tech. Rep. LIGO-T060156-v01, California Institute
of Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
https://dcc.ligo.org/LIGO-T060156-v1/public) over that from the
previous S5 run (Abbott et al. 2009RPPh...72g6901A 2009RPPh...72g6901A).
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table7.dat 92 169 Limits on the Gravitational Wave Amplitude
for Known Pulsars with fgw>40 Hz
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See also:
VII/189 : Catalog of Pulsars (Taylor+ 1995)
J/ApJ/713/671 : Gravitational waves from pulsars (Abbott+, 2010)
Byte-by-byte Description of file: table7.dat
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Bytes Format Units Label Explanations
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1- 12 A12 --- ID Pulsar identifier (PSR JHHMM+DDMMA in
Simbad)
14 A1 --- n_ID [defg] Note on ID (1)
16- 21 F6.2 Hz frot Rotational frequency
23- 29 F7.2 Hz fgw Gravitational wave low-frequency
31- 38 E8.2 Hz/s Frot Rotational frequency derivative
40- 42 F3.1 kpc Dist Distance to the source
44 A1 --- n_Dist [c] Note on Dist (2)
46- 52 E7.2 --- hsd Spin-down gravitational wave amplitude
limit
54 A1 --- n_hsd [ab] Note on hsd (3)
56- 62 E7.2 --- Priorh95 ? The prior 95% upper limit on
the gravitational wave amplitude
64- 70 E7.2 --- S6/VSR24-h95 ? The 95% upper limit on the gravitational
wave amplitude from S6/VSR2,4
72- 77 E6.2 --- epsilon Fiducial equatorial ellipticity
79- 85 E7.3 kg/m2 Q22 Mass quadrupole moment
87- 92 F6.1 --- h0 Ratio of the limit to the spin-down limit
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Note (1): Note as follows:
d = Recently discovered pulsar with timing solution from after the end of S6
or VSR4. As this is an MSP the timing solution should extrapolate back
well over the search period and it is unlikely that any glitches occurred;
e = Results from S3/S4 (Abbott et al. 2007PhRvD..76d2001A 2007PhRvD..76d2001A);
f = Results from S5 (Abbott et al. 2010, J/ApJ/713/671);
g = New result from S5 using data covering 2006.
Note (2): Note as follows:
c = The pulsar's distance is calculated using the NE2001 model of
Cordes & Lazio (2002, arXiv:astro-ph/0207156).
Note (3): Note as follows:
a = The pulsar's spin-down is corrected for proper motion effects;
b = The pulsar's spin-down is calculated using a characteristic spin-down
age of 109 yr.
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