First Search for Gravitational Waves from Known Pulsars with Advanced LIGO

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.

Metadata

Item Type:	Article
Authors/Creators:	Abbott, BP Abbott, R Abbott, TD Abernathy, MR Acernese, F Ackley, K Adams, C Adams, T Addesso, P Adhikari, RX Adya, VB Affeldt, C Agathos, M Agatsuma, K Aggarwal, N Aguiar, OD Aiello, L Ain, A Ajith, P Allen, B Allocca, A Altin, PA Ananyeva, A Anderson, SB Anderson, WG Appert, S Arai, K Araya, MC Areeda, JS Arnaud, N Arun, KG Ascenzi, S Ashton, G Ast, M Aston, SM Astone, P Aufmuth, P Aulbert, C Avila-Alvarez, A Babak, S Bacon, P Bader, MKM Baker, PT Baldaccini, F Ballardin, G Ballmer, SW Barayoga, JC Barclay, SE Barish, BC Barker, D Barone, F Barr, B Barsotti, L Barsuglia, M Barta, D Bartlett, J Bartos, I Bassiri, R Basti, A Batch, JC Baune, C Bavigadda, V Bazzan, M Beer, C Bejger, M Belahcene, I Belgin, M Bell, AS Berger, BK Bergmann, G Berry, CPL Bersanetti, D Bertolini, A Betzwieser, J Bhagwat, S Bhandare, R Bilenko, IA Billingsley, G Billman, CR Birch, J Birney, R Birnholtz, O Biscans, S Bisht, A Bitossi, M Biwer, C Bizouard, MA Blackburn, JK Blackman, J Blair, CD Blair, DG Blair, RM Bloemen, S Bock, O Boer, M Bogaert, G Bohe, A Bondu, F Bonnand, R Boom, BA Bork, R Boschi, V Bose, S Bouffanais, Y Bozzi, A Bradaschia, C Brady, PR Braginsky, VB Branchesi, M Brau, JE Briant, T Brillet, A Brinkmann, M Brisson, V Brockill, P Broida, JE Brooks, AF Brown, DA Brown, DD Brown, NM Brunett, S Buchanan, CC Buikema, A Bulik, T Bulten, HJ Buonanno, A Buskulic, D Buy, C Byer, RL Cabero, M Cadonati, L Cagnoli, G Cahillane, C Bustillo, JC Callister, TA Calloni, E Camp, JB Canepa, M Cannon, KC Cao, H Cao, J Capano, CD Capocasa, E Carbognani, F Caride, S Diaz, JC Casentini, C Caudill, S Cavaglia, M Cavalier, F Cavalieri, R Cella, G Cepeda, CB Baiardi, LC Cerretani, G Cesarini, E Chamberlin, SJ Chan, M Chao, S Charlton, P Chassande-Mottin, E Cheeseboro, BD Chen, HY Chen, Y Cheng, H-P Chincarini, A Chiummo, A Chmiel, T Cho, HS Cho, M Chow, JH Christensen, N Chu, Q Chua, AJK Chua, S Chung, S Ciani, G Clara, F Clark, JA Cleva, F Cocchieri, C Coccia, E Cohadon, P-F Colla, A Collette, CG Cominsky, L Jr, CM Conti, L Cooper, SJ Corbitt, TR Cornish, N Corsi, A Cortese, S Costa, CA Coughlin, MW Coughlin, SB Coulon, J-P Countryman, ST Couvares, P Covas, PB Cowan, EE Coward, DM Cowart, MJ Coyne, DC Coyne, R Creighton, JDE Creighton, TD Cripe, J Crowder, SG Cullen, TJ Cumming, A Cunningham, L Cuoco, E Dal Canton, T Danilishin, SL D'Antonio, S Danzmann, K Dasgupta, A Costa, CFDS Dattilo, V Dave, I Davier, M Davies, GS Davis, D Daw, EJ Day, B Day, R De, S DeBra, D Debreczeni, G Degallaix, J De Laurentis, M Deleglise, S Del Pozzo, W Denker, T Dent, T Dergachev, V De Rosa, R DeRosa, RT DeSalvo, R Devenson, J Devine, RC Dhurandhar, S Diaz, MC Di Fiore, L Di Giovanni, M Di Girolamo, T Di Lieto, A Di Pace, S Di Palma, I Di Virgilio, A Doctor, Z Dolique, V Donovan, F Dooley, KL Doravari, S Dorrington, I Douglas, R Alvarez, MD Downes, TP Drago, M Drever, RWP Driggers, JC Du, Z Ducrot, M Dwyer, SE Edo, TB (0000-0001-9828-028X) Edwards, MC Effler, A Eggenstein, H-B Ehrens, P Eichholz, J Eikenberry, SS Eisenstein, RA Essick, RC Etienne, Z Etzel, T Evans, M Evans, TM Everett, R Factourovich, M Fafone, V Fair, H Fairhurst, S Fan, X Farinon, S Farr, B Farr, WM Fauchon-Jones, EJ Favata, M Fays, M Fehrmann, H Fejer, MM Galiana, AF Ferrante, I Ferreira, EC Ferrini, F Fidecaro, F Fiori, I Fiorucci, D Fisher, RP Flaminio, R Fletcher, M Fong, H Forsyth, SS Fournier, J-D Frasca, S Frasconi, F Frei, Z Freise, A Frey, R Frey, V Fries, EM Fritschel, P Frolov, VV Fulda, P Fyffe, M Gabbard, H Gadre, BU Gaebel, SM Gair, JR Gammaitoni, L Gaonkar, SG Garufi, F Gaur, G Gayathri, V Gehrels, N Gemme, G Genin, E Gennai, A George, J Gergely, L Germain, V Ghonge, S Ghosh, A Ghosh, A Ghosh, S Giaime, JA Giardina, KD Giazotto, A Gill, K Glaefke, A Goetz, E Goetz, R Gondan, L Gonzalez, G Castro, JMG Gopakumar, A Gorodetsky, ML Gossan, SE Gosselin, M Gouaty, R Grado, A Graef, C Granata, M Grant, A Gras, S Gray, C Greco, G Green, AC Groot, P Grote, H Grunewald, S Guidi, GM Guo, X Gupta, A Gupta, MK Gushwa, KE Gustafson, EK Gustafson, R Hacker, JJ Hall, BR Hall, ED Hammond, G Haney, M Hanke, MM Hanks, J Hanna, C Hanson, J Hardwick, T Harms, J Harry, GM Harry, IW Hart, MJ Hartman, MT Haster, C-J Haughian, K Healy, J Heidmann, A Heintze, MC Heitmann, H Hello, P Hemming, G Hendry, M Heng, IS Hennig, J Henry, J Heptonstall, AW Heurs, M Hild, S Hoak, D Hofman, D Holt, K Holz, DE Hopkins, P Hough, J Houston, EA Howell, EJ Hu, YM Huerta, EA Huet, D Hughey, B Husa, S Huttner, SH Huynh-Dinh, T Indik, N Ingram, DR Inta, R Isa, HN Isac, J-M Isi, M Isogai, T Iyer, BR Izumi, K Jacqmin, T Jani, K Jaranowski, P Jawahar, S Jimenez-Forteza, F Johnson, WW Jones, DI Jones, R Jonker, RJG Ju, L Junker, J Kalaghatgi, CV Kalogera, V Kandhasamy, S Kang, G Kanner, JB Karki, S Karvinen, KS Kasprzack, M Katsavounidis, E Katzman, W Kaufer, S Kaur, T Kawabe, K Kefelian, F Keitel, D Kelley, DB Kennedy, R Key, JS Khalili, FY Khan, I Khan, S Khan, Z Khazanov, EA Kijbunchoo, N Kim, C Kim, JC Kim, W Kim, W Kim, Y-M Kimbrell, SJ King, EJ King, PJ Kirchhoff, R Kissel, JS Klein, B Kleybolte, L Klimenko, S Koch, P Koehlenbeck, SM Koley, S Kondrashov, V Kontos, A Korobko, M Korth, WZ Kowalska, I Kozak, DB Kraemer, C Kringel, V Krishnan, B Krolak, A Kuehn, G Kumar, P Kumar, R Kuo, L Kutynia, A Lackey, BD Landry, M Lang, RN Lange, J Lantz, B Lanza, RK Lartaux-Vollard, A Lasky, PD Laxen, M Lazzarini, A Lazzaro, C Leaci, P Leavey, S Lebigot, EO Lee, CH Lee, HK Lee, HM Lee, K Lehmann, J Lenon, A Leonardi, M Leong, JR Leroy, N Letendre, N Levin, Y Li, TGF Libson, A Littenberg, TB Liu, J Lockerbie, NA Lombardi, AL London, LT Lord, JE Lorenzini, M Loriette, V Lormand, M Losurdo, G Lough, JD Lousto, CO Lovelace, G Lueck, H Lundgren, AP Lynch, R Ma, Y Macfoy, S Machenschalk, B MacInnis, M Macleod, DM Magana-Sandoval, F Majorana, E Maksimovic, I Malvezzi, V Man, N Mandic, V Mangano, V Mansell, GL Manske, M Mantovani, M Marchesoni, F Marion, F Marka, S Marka, Z Markosyan, AS Maros, E Martelli, F Martellini, L Martin, IW Martynov, DV Mason, K Masserot, A Massinger, TJ Masso-Reid, M Mastrogiovanni, S Matichard, F Matone, L Mavalvala, N Mazumder, N McCarthy, R McClelland, DE McCormick, S McGrath, C McGuire, SC McIntyre, G McIver, J McManus, DJ McRae, T McWilliams, ST Meacher, D Meador, GD Meidam, J Melatos, A Mendell, G Mendoza-Gandara, D Mercer, RA Merilh, EL Merzougui, M Meshkov, S Messenger, C Messick, C Metzdorff, R Meyers, PM Mezzani, F Miao, H Michel, C Middleton, H Mikhailov, EE Milano, L Miller, AL Miller, A Miller, BB Miller, J Millhouse, M Minenkov, Y Ming, J Mirshekari, S Mishra, C Mitra, S Mitrofanov, VP Mitselmakher, G Mittleman, R Moggi, A Mohan, M Mohapatra, SRP Montani, M Moore, BC Moore, CJ Moraru, D Moreno, G Morriss, SR Mours, B Mow-Lowry, CM Mueller, G Muir, AW Mukherjee, A Mukherjee, D Mukherjee, S Mukund, N Mullavey, A Munch, J Muniz, EAM Murray, PG Mytidis, A Napier, K Nardecchia, I Naticchioni, L Nelemans, G Nelson, TJN Neri, M Nery, M Neunzert, A Newport, JM Newton, G Nguyen, TT Nielsen, AB Nissanke, S Nitz, A Noack, A Nocera, F Nolting, D Normandin, MEN Nuttall, LK Oberling, J Ochsner, E Oelker, E Ogin, GH Oh, JJ Oh, SH Ohme, F Oliver, M Oppermann, P Oram, RJ O'Reilly, B O'Shaughnessy, R Ottaway, DJ Overmier, H Owen, BJ Pace, AE Page, J Pai, A Pai, SA Palamos, JR Palashov, O Palomba, C Pal-Singh, A Pan, H Pankow, C Pannarale, F Pant, BC Paoletti, F Paoli, A Papa, MA Paris, HR Parker, W Pascucci, D Pasqualetti, A Passaquieti, R Passuello, D Patricelli, B Pearlstone, BL Pedraza, M Pedurand, R Pekowsky, L Pele, A Penn, S Perez, CJ Perreca, A Perri, LM Pfeiffer, HP Phelps, M Piccinni, OJ Pichot, M Piergiovanni, F Pierro, V Pillant, G Pinard, L Pinto, IM Pitkin, M Poe, M Poggiani, R Popolizio, P Post, A Powell, J Prasad, J Pratt, JWW Predoi, V Prestegard, T Prijatelj, M Principe, M Privitera, S Prix, R Prodi, GA Prokhorov, LG Puncken, O Punturo, M Puppo, P Puerrer, M Qi, H Qin, J Qiu, S Quetschke, V Quintero, EA Quitzow-James, R Raab, FJ Rabeling, DS Radkins, H Raffai, P Raja, S Rajan, C Rakhmanov, M Rapagnani, P Raymond, V Razzano, M Re, V Read, J Regimbau, T Rei, L Reid, S Reitze, DH Rew, H Reyes, SD Rhoades, E Ricci, F Riles, K Rizzo, M Robertson, NA Robie, R Robinet, F Rocchi, A Rolland, L Rollins, JG Roma, VJ Romano, R Romie, JH Rosinska, D Rowan, S Ruediger, A Ruggi, P Ryan, K Sachdev, S Sadecki, T Sadeghian, L Sakellariadou, M Salconi, L Saleem, M Salemi, F Samajdar, A Sammut, L Sampson, LM Sanchez, EJ Sandberg, V Sanders, JR Sassolas, B Sathyaprakash, BS Saulson, PR Sauter, O Savage, RL Sawadsky, A Schale, P Scheuer, J Schmidt, E Schmidt, J Schmidt, P Schnabel, R Schofield, RMS Schoenbeck, A Schreiber, E Schuette, D Schutz, BF Schwalbe, SG Scott, J Scott, SM Sellers, D Sengupta, AS Sentenac, D Sequino, V Sergeev, A Setyawati, Y Shaddock, DA Shaffer, TJ Shahriar, MS Shapiro, B Shawhan, P Sheperd, A Shoemaker, DH Shoemaker, DM Siellez, K Siemens, X Sieniawska, M Sigg, D Silva, AD Singer, A Singer, LP Singh, A Singh, R Singhal, A Sintes, AM Slagmolen, BJJ Smith, B Smith, JR Smith, RJE Son, EJ Sorazu, B Sorrentino, F Souradeep, T Spencer, AP Srivastava, AK Staley, A Steinke, M Steinlechner, J Steinlechner, S Steinmeyer, D Stephens, BC Stevenson, SP Stone, R Strain, KA Straniero, N Stratta, G Strigin, SE Sturani, R Stuver, AL Summerscales, TZ Sun, L Sunil, S Sutton, PJ Swinkels, BL Szczepanczyk, MJ Tacca, M Talukder, D Tanner, DB Tapai, M Taracchini, A Taylor, R Theeg, T Thomas, EG Thomas, M Thomas, P Thorne, KA Thrane, E Tippens, T Tiwari, S Tiwari, V Tokmakov, KV Toland, K Tomlinson, C Tonelli, M Tornasi, Z Torrie, CI Toeyrae, D Travasso, F Traylor, G Trifiro, D Trinastic, J Tringali, MC Trozzo, L Tse, M Tso, R Turconi, M Tuyenbayev, D Ugolini, D Unnikrishnan, CS Urban, AL Usman, SA Vahlbruch, H Vajente, G Valdes, G van Bakel, N van Beuzekom, M van den Brand, JFJ Van Den Broeck, C Vander-Hyde, DC van der Schaaf, L van Heijningen, JV van Veggel, AA Vardaro, M Varma, V Vass, S Vasuth, M Vecchio, A Vedovato, G Veitch, J Veitch, PJ Venkateswara, K Venugopalan, G Verkindt, D Vetrano, F Vicere, A Viets, AD Vinciguerra, S Vine, DJ Vinet, J-Y Vitale, S Vo, T Vocca, H Vorvick, C Voss, DV Vousden, WD Vyatchanin, SP Wade, AR Wade, LE Wade, M Walker, M Wallace, L Walsh, S Wang, G Wang, H Wang, M Wang, Y Ward, RL Warner, J Was, M Watchi, J Weaver, B Wei, L-W Weinert, M Weinstein, AJ Weiss, R Wen, L Wessels, P Westphal, T Wette, K Whelan, JT Whiting, BF Whittle, C Williams, D Williams, RD Williamson, AR Willis, JL Willke, B Wimmer, MH Winkler, W Wipf, CC Wittel, H Woan, G Woehler, J Worden, J Wright, JL Wu, DS Wu, G Yam, W Yamamoto, H Yancey, CC Yap, MJ Yu, H Yu, H Yvert, M Zadrozny, A Zangrando, L Zanolin, M Zendri, J-P Zevin, M Zhang, L Zhang, M Zhang, T Zhang, Y Zhao, C Zhou, M Zhou, Z Zhu, SJ Zhu, XJ Zucker, ME Zweizig, J Buchner, S Cognard, I Corongiu, A Freire, PCC Guillemot, L Hobbs, GB Kerr, M Lyne, AG Possenti, A Ridolfi, A Shannon, RM Stappers, BW Weltevrede, P Collaboration, LIGOS Collaboration, V
Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information:	© 2017 The American Astronomical Society. Reproduced in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy.
Keywords:	gravitational waves; pulsars: general; Supporting material: machine; readable table
Dates:	Published (online): 7 April 2017 Published: 10 April 2017
Institution:	The University of Sheffield
Academic Units:	The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Science (Sheffield) > Department of Physics and Astronomy (Sheffield)
Depositing User:	Symplectic Sheffield
Date Deposited:	02 Jun 2017 13:48
Last Modified:	23 Mar 2018 04:57
Published Version:	https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aa677f
Status:	Published
Publisher:	American Astronomical Society
Refereed:	Yes
Identification Number:	10.3847/1538-4357/aa677f
Related URLs:	Author
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID):	oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:117051

CORE (COnnecting REpositories)

First Search for Gravitational Waves from Known Pulsars with Advanced LIGO

Abstract

Metadata

Download

Published Version

Export

Statistics