Application of a Hough search for continuous gravitational waves on data from the fifth LIGO science run
- Creators
- Aasi, J.
- Abadie, J.
- Abbott, B. P.
- Abbott, R.
- Abernathy, M. R.
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Adhikari, R. X.
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Ajith, P.
- Anderson, R. A.
- Anderson, S. B.
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Arai, K.
- Araya, M. C.
- Austin, L.
- Barayoga, J. C.
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Billingsley, G.
- Black, E.
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Blackburn, J. K.
- Bork, R.
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Brooks, A. F.
- Cepeda, C.
- Chakraborty, R.
- Chalermsongsak, T.
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Coyne, D. C.
- Daudert, B.
- Dergachev, V.
- Driggers, J. C.
- Ehrens, P.
- Etzel, T.
- Fotopoulos, N.
- Gushwa, K. E.
- Gustafson, E. K.
- Hall, E.
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Harms, J.
- Heefner, J.
- Heptonstall, A. W.
- Hodge, K. A.
- Ivanov, A.
- Jacobson, M.
- James, E.
- Kalmus, P.
- Kells, W.
- King, P. J.
- Kondrashov, V.
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Korth, W. Z.
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Kozak, D.
- Lewis, J. B.
- Litvine, V.
- Lloyd, D.
- Mageswaran, M.
- Mailand, K.
- Maros, E.
- Martynov, D.
- Marx, J. N.
- McIntyre, G.
- Meshkov, S.
- Nash, T.
- Ogin, G. H.
- Osthelder, C.
- Pedraza, M.
- Phelps, M.
- Poux, C.
- Price, L. R.
- Privitera, S.
- Quintero, E.
- Raymond, V.
- Reitze, D. H.
- Robertson, N. A.
- Rollins, J. G.
- Sannibale, V.
- Seifert, F.
- Singer, A.
- Singer, L.
- Smith, M. R.
- Smith-Lefebvre, N. D.
- Taylor, R.
- Thirugnanasambandam, M. P.
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Thrane, E.
- Torrie, C. I.
- Vass, S.
- Wallace, L.
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Weinstein, A. J.
- Whitcomb, S. E.
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Williams, R.
- Yamamoto, H.
- Yeaton-Massey, D.
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Zhang, L.
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Zweizig, J.
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Chen, Y.
- Gossan, S.
- Hong, T.
- Kaufman, K.
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Luan, J.
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Miao, H.
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Ott, C. D.
- Thorne, K. S.
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Vallisneri, M.
- Yang, H.
- Drever, R. W. P.
- LIGO Scientific Collaboration
- Virgo Collaboration
Abstract
We report on an all-sky search for periodic gravitational waves in the frequency range 50–1000 Hz with the first derivative of frequency in the range −8.9 × 10^(−10) Hz s^(−1) to zero in two years of data collected during LIGO's fifth science run. Our results employ a Hough transform technique, introducing a χ^2 test and analysis of coincidences between the signal levels in years 1 and 2 of observations that offers a significant improvement in the product of strain sensitivity with compute cycles per data sample compared to previously published searches. Since our search yields no surviving candidates, we present results taking the form of frequency dependent, 95% confidence upper limits on the strain amplitude h0. The most stringent upper limit from year 1 is 1.0 × 10^(−24) in the 158.00–158.25 Hz band. In year 2, the most stringent upper limit is 8.9 × 10^(−25) in the 146.50–146.75 Hz band. This improved detection pipeline, which is computationally efficient by at least two orders of magnitude better than our flagship Einstein@Home search, will be important for 'quick-look' searches in the Advanced LIGO and Virgo detector era.
Additional Information
© 2014 Institute of Physics. Received 28 November 2013, revised 18 February 2014. Accepted for publication 7 March 2014. Published 3 April 2014. The authors gratefully acknowledge the support of the United States National Science Foundation for the construction and operation of the LIGO Laboratory, the Science and Technology Facilities Council of the United Kingdom, the Max-Planck-Society, and the State of Niedersachsen/Germany for support of the construction and operation of the GEO600 detector, and the Italian Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare and the French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique for the construction and operation of the Virgo detector. The authors also gratefully acknowledge the support of the research by these agencies and by the Australian Research Council, the International Science Linkages program of the Commonwealth of Australia, the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research of India, the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare of Italy, the Spanish Ministerio de EconomÃa y Competitividad, the Conselleria d'Economia Hisenda i InnovaciÏŒ of the Govern de les Illes Balears, the Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter supported by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education, the FOCUS Programme of Foundation for Polish Science, the Royal Society, the Scottish Funding Council, the Scottish Universities Physics Alliance, The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the Carnegie Trust, the Leverhulme Trust, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the Research Corporation, and the Alfred P Sloan Foundation. This document has been assigned LIGO Laboratory document number LIGO-P1300071.Attached Files
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- NSF
- Science and Technology Facilities Council (UK)
- Max-Planck-Society
- State of Niedersachsen/Germany
- Australian Research Council
- International Science Linkages program of the Commonwealth of Australia
- Council of Scientific and Industrial Research of India
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare of Italy
- Spanish Ministerio de EconomÃa y Competitividad
- Conselleria d'Economia Hisenda i Innovaciό of the Govern de les Illes Balears
- Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter supported by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research
- Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education
- FOCUS Programme of Foundation for Polish Science
- Royal Society
- Scottish Funding Council
- Scottish Universities Physics Alliance
- NASA
- Carnegie Trust
- Leverhulme Trust
- David and Lucile Packard Foundation
- Research Corporation
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
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- LIGO Laboratory document number
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- P1300071