J/ApJ/813/39 LIGO gravitational-wave (GW) searches from SNRs (Aasi+, 2015)
Searches for continuous gravitational waves from nine young supernova remnants.
Aasi J., Abbott B.P., Abbott R., Abbott T., Abernathy M.R., Acernese F.,
Ackley K., Adams C., Adams T., Addesso P., Adhikari R.X., Adya V.,
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Fehrmann H., Fejer M.M., Feldbaum D., Ferrante I., Ferreira E.C.,
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Fulda P., Fyffe M., Gair J.R., Gammaitoni L., Gaonkar S., Garufi F.,
Gatto A., Gehrels N., Gemme G., Gendre B., Genin E., Gennai A.,
Gergely L.A., Ghosh S., Giaime J.A., Giardina K.D., Giazotto A.,
Gleason J., Goetz E., Goetz R., Gondan L., Gonzalez G., Gordon N.,
Gorodetsky M.L., Gossan S., Gossler S., Gouaty R., Graf C., Graff P.B.,
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Groot P., Grote H., Grunewald S., Guidi G.M., Guido C.J., Guo X.,
Gushwa K., Gustafson E.K., Gustafson R., Hacker J., Hall E.D., Hammond G.,
Hanke M., Hanks J., Hanna C., Hannam M.D., Hanson J., Hardwick T.,
Harms J., Harry G.M., Harry I.W., Hart M., Hartman M.T., Haster C.-J.,
Haughian K., Heidmann A., Heintze M., Heinzel G., Heitmann H., Hello P.,
Hemming G., Hendry M., Heng I.S., Heptonstall A.W., Heurs M., Hewitson M.,
Hild S., Hoak D., Hodge K.A., Hofman D., Hollitt S.E., Holt K., Hopkins P.,
Hosken D.J., Hough J., Houston E., Howell E.J., Hu Y.M., Huerta E.,
Hughey B., Husa S., Huttner S.H., Huynh M., Huynh-Dinh T., Idrisy A.,
Indik N., Ingram D.R., Inta R., Islas G., Isler J.C., Isogai T., Iyer B.R.,
Izumi K., Jacobson M., Jang H., Jaranowski P., Jawahar S., Ji Y.,
Jimenez-forteza F., Johnson W.W., Jones D.I., Jones R., Jonker R.J.G.,
Ju L., K H., Kalogera V., Kandhasamy S., Kang G., Kanner J.B.,
Kasprzack M., Katsavounidis E., Katzman W., Kaufer H., Kaufer S., Kaur T.,
Kawabe K., Kawazoe F., Kefelian F., Keiser G.M., Keitel D., Kelley D.B.,
Kells W., Keppel D.G., Key J.S., Khalaidovski A., Khalili F.Y.,
Khazanov E.A., Kim C., Kim K., Kim N.G., Kim N., Kim Y.-M., King E.J.,
King P.J., Kinzel D.L., Kissel J.S., Klimenko S., Kline J., Koehlenbeck S.,
Kokeyama K., Kondrashov V., Korobko M., Korth W.Z., Kowalska I.,
Kozak D.B., Kringel V., Krishnan B., Krolak A., Krueger C., Kuehn G.,
Kumar A., Kumar P., Kuo L., Kutynia A., Landry M., Lantz B., Larson S.,
Lasky P.D., Lazzarini A., Lazzaro C., Le J., Leaci P., Leavey S.,
Lebigot E., Lebigot E.O., Lee C.H., Lee H.K., Lee H.M., Leonardi M.,
Leong J.R., Leroy N., Letendre N., Levin Y., Levine B., Lewis J.,
Li T.G.F., Libbrecht K., Libson A., Lin A.C., Littenberg T.B.,
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Lundgren A.P., Lynch R., Ma Y., Macarthur J., MacDonald T.,
Machenschalk B., MacInnis M., Macleod D.M., Magana-Sandoval F., Magee R.,
Mageswaran M., Maglione C., Mailand K., Majorana E., Maksimovic I.,
Malvezzi V., Man N., Mandel I., Mandic V., Mangano V., Mansell G.L.,
Mantovani M., Marchesoni F., Marion F., Marka S., Marka Z., Markosyan A.,
Maros E., Martelli F., Martellini L., Martin I.W., Martin R.M.,
Martynov D., Marx J.N., Mason K., Masserot A., Massinger T.J.,
Matichard F., Matone L., Mavalvala N., Mazumder N., Mazzolo G.,
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ADC_Keywords: Interferometry ; Supernova remnants
Keywords: gravitational waves; ISM: supernova remnants; stars: neutron
Abstract:
We describe directed searches for continuous gravitational waves (GWs)
in data from the sixth Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave
Observatory (LIGO) science data run. The targets were nine young
supernova remnants not associated with pulsars; eight of the remnants
are associated with non-pulsing suspected neutron stars. One target's
parameters are uncertain enough to warrant two searches, for a total
of 10. Each search covered a broad band of frequencies and first and
second frequency derivatives for a fixed sky direction. The searches
coherently integrated data from the two LIGO interferometers over time
spans from 5.3-25.3 days using the matched-filtering F-statistic. We
found no evidence of GW signals. We set 95% confidence upper limits as
strong (low) as 4x10-25 on intrinsic strain, 2x10-7 on fiducial
ellipticity, and 4x10-5 on r-mode amplitude. These beat the indirect
limits from energy conservation and are within the range of
theoretical predictions for neutron-star ellipticities and r-mode
amplitudes.
Description:
The sixth LIGO science run (S6) ran from 2009 July 7 21:00:00 UTC (GPS
931035615) to 2010 October 21 00:00:00 UTC (GPS 971654415). It
included two interferometers with 4-km arm lengths, H1 at LIGO Hanford
Observatory (LHO) near Hanford, Washington and L1 at LIGO Livingston
Observatory (LLO) near Livingston, Louisiana.
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table1.dat 45 10 Target objects and astronomical parameters
used in each search
table5.dat 31 4962 Upper limit data
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See also:
VII/272 : A catalogue of Galactic supernova remnants (Green, 2014)
VII/267 : Gravitational Wave Galaxy Catalogue (White+ 2011)
J/ApJ/760/12 : LIGO/Virgo gravitational-wave (GW) bursts with GRBs
(Abadie+, 2012)
J/ApJ/715/1438 : Gravitational-wave bursts with GRBs (Abbott+, 2010)
J/ApJ/713/671 : Gravitational waves from pulsars (Abbott+, 2010)
J/A+AS/58/197 : 11cm survey, 357.4≤l≤76, -1.5≤b≤1.5 (Reich+, 1984)
Byte-by-byte Description of file: table1.dat
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Bytes Format Units Label Explanations
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1- 9 A9 --- SNR SNR Name (LLL.l+B.b; G)
11- 19 A9 --- OName Other name
21- 22 I2 h RAh Hour of right ascension (J2000)
23- 24 I2 min RAm Minute of right ascension (J2000)
25- 28 F4.1 s RAs Second of right ascension (J2000)
29 A1 --- DE- Sign of declination (J2000)
30- 31 I2 deg DEd Degree of declination (J2000)
32- 33 I2 arcmin DEm Arcminute of declination (J2000)
34- 35 I2 arcsec DEs Arcsecond of declination (J2000)
37- 40 F4.2 kpc Dist [0.2/8.5] Distance (D) (1)
42- 45 F4.2 kyr Age [0.1/5] Age (a) (1)
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Note (1): Values of distance D and age a are at the optimistic (nearby and
young) end of ranges given in the literature, except for the second
search for Vela Jr. See the text for details and references.
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: table5.dat
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Bytes Format Units Label Explanations
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1 A1 --- --- [G]
2- 10 A9 --- SNR Galactic coordinate name of SNR searched
11- 15 A5 --- Obs "_deep" or "_wide" for Vela Jr. (1)
17- 22 F6.1 Hz Freq [46.5/2033.5] Central frequency of upper
limit band
24- 31 A8 --- Strain The 95% confidence limit on intrinsic GW strain
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Note (1): The literature on G266.2-1.2 (Vela Jr.) features a wide range of age
and distance estimates, enough that we performed two searches ("wide"
and "deep"). The Vela Jr. wide search had jobs covering bands from
35mHz to nearly 2Hz at low frequencies, while the other searches had
search job bands on the order of a few mHz to tens of mHz.
See text for further explanations.
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(End) Prepared by [AAS], Emmanuelle Perret [CDS] 11-Feb-2016