J/ApJ/839/12 Gravitational waves search from known PSR with LIGO (Abbott+, 2017)
First search for gravitational waves from known pulsars with Advanced LIGO.
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<Astrophys. J., 839, 12-12 (2017)>
=2017ApJ...839...12A 2017ApJ...839...12A (SIMBAD/NED BibCode)
ADC_Keywords: Pulsars ; Stars, distances
Keywords: gravitational waves; pulsars: general
Abstract:
We present the result of searches for gravitational waves from 200
pulsars using data from the first observing run of the Advanced LIGO
detectors. We find no significant evidence for a gravitational-wave
signal from any of these pulsars, but we are able to set the most
constraining upper limits yet on their gravitational-wave amplitudes
and ellipticities. For eight of these pulsars, our upper limits give
bounds that are improvements over the indirect spin-down limit values.
For another 32, we are within a factor of 10 of the spin-down limit,
and it is likely that some of these will be reachable in future runs
of the advanced detector. Taken as a whole, these new results improve
on previous limits by more than a factor of two.
Description:
We have obtained timings for 200 known pulsars. Timing was performed
using the 42ft telescope and Lovell telescope at Jodrell Bank (UK),
the 26m telescope at Hartebeesthoek (South Africa), the Parkes radio
telescope (Australia), the Nancay Decimetric Radio Telescope (France),
the Arecibo Observatory (Puerto Rico) and the Fermi Large Area
Telescope (LAT). Of these, 122 have been targeted in previous
campaigns (Aasi+ 2014, J/ApJ/785/119), while 78 are new to this
search.
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table4.dat 80 190 Limits on the gravitational wave amplitude, and
other derived quantities, for known pulsars
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See also:
B/psr : ATNF Pulsar Catalogue (Manchester+, 2005)
VII/267 : Gravitational Wave Galaxy Catalogue (White+ 2011)
J/ApJ/602/264 : Proper motions and radial velocities in M15 (McNamara+, 2004)
J/AJ/133/1287 : JHK photom. of 24 Galactic globular clusters (Valenti+, 2007)
J/ApJ/713/671 : Gravitational waves from pulsars (Abbott+, 2010)
J/ApJS/208/17 : 2nd Fermi LAT cat. of gamma-ray pulsars (2PC) (Abdo+, 2013)
J/ApJ/785/119 : Gravitational waves from known pulsars (Aasi+, 2014)
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Bytes Format Units Label Explanations
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1- 12 A12 --- PSR Pulsar's name (JHHMM+DDMMAA)
14- 20 F7.2 Hz Freq [18/1284] Gravitational wave frequency
22- 25 F4.1 kpc Dist [0.2/30] Distance to the pulsar (1)
27- 34 F8.6 10-25 H0SD [/6.2] Spin-down limit on gravitational
wave amplitude
36- 40 F5.2 10-25 H095 [0.1/18] Observed 95% credible upper limit
on gravitational wave amplitude
42- 50 F9.2 10-7 Ell [0.1/800000] Derived upper limit on the
pulsar's ellipticity
52- 61 F10.3 10+31kg.m2 Q22 [0.09/620000] Derived upper limit on the
pulsar's l=m=2 mode mass quadrupole moment
63- 68 F6.1 --- SDR [1.4/8000] Ratio H095/H0SD (2)
70- 73 F4.1 [-] logOS/N [-1.7/12.4] Odds data signal or noise (3)
75- 78 F4.1 [-] logOS/I [-5.5/1] Odds data signal or incoherent (3)
80- 80 A1 --- Note Footnote (4)
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Note (1): The following pulsars use distance estimates that are not taken from
the values given in the ATNF pulsar catalog:
PSR J1017-7156 = updated parallax distance provided by R. M. Shannon 2016,
private communication,
PSR J1418-6058 = distance to more distant association in Yadigaroglu & Romani
1997ApJ...476..347Y 1997ApJ...476..347Y
PSR J1813-1246 = lower limit on distance from Marelli+ 2014ApJ...795..168M 2014ApJ...795..168M
PSR J1823-3021A = distance for NGC 6624 in Valenti+ 2007, J/AJ/133/1287
PSR J1824-2452A = distance for M28 in Rees & Cudworth 1991AJ....102..152R 1991AJ....102..152R
PSR J1826-1256 = lower distance range from Wang 2011RAA....11..824W 2011RAA....11..824W ;
Voisin+ 2016MNRAS.458.2813V 2016MNRAS.458.2813V
PSRs J1910-5959A, C, and D = distances of 4.45kpc calculated from the
distance modulus to NGC 6752 in Table 4 of
Gratton+ 2003A&A...408..529G 2003A&A...408..529G
PSR J2129+1210C = McNamara+ 2004, J/ApJ/602/264
PSR J2234+06 = P. C. C. Freire 2016, private communication.
Note (2): Ratio of the spin-down limit to the observed 95% upper limit on the
gravitational wave amplitude.
Note (3): Base-10 logarithm odds given as:
logOS/N = odds between the data containing a coherent gravitational wave
signal in both detectors or Gaussian noise;
logOS/I = odds between the data containing a coherent gravitational wave
signal in both detectors or an incoherent signal.
Note (4): Footnote as follows:
a = the pulsar's spin-down has been corrected for proper motion effects;
b = the pulsar's spin-down has been calculated assuming a characteristic
age of 10+9 years and a braking index of 5;
c = means that this result uses restricted priors on the source
orientation and polarisation angle.
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(End) Prepared by [AAS], Emmanuelle Perret [CDS] 07-Nov-2017