Results of the deepest all-sky survey for continuous gravitational waves on LIGO S6 data running on the Einstein@Home volunteer distributed computing project
- Creators
- Abbott, B. P.
- Abbott, R.
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Adhikari, R. X.
- Anderson, S. B.
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Arai, K.
- Araya, M. C.
- Barayoga, J. C.
- Barish, B. C.
- Berger, B. K.
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Billingsley, G.
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Blackburn, J. K.
- Bork, R.
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Brooks, A. F.
- Brunett, S.
- Cahillane, C.
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Callister, T.
- Cepeda, C. B.
- Couvares, P.
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Coyne, D. C.
- Dergachev, V.
- Drever, R. W. P.
- Ehrens, P.
- Eichholz, J.
- Etzel, T.
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Gossan, S. E.
- Gushwa, K. E.
- Gustafson, E. K.
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Hall, E. D.
- Heptonstall, A. W.
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Isi, M.
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Kanner, J. B.
- Kells, W.
- Kondrashov, V.
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Korth, W. Z.
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Kozak, D. B.
- Lewis, J. B.
- Maros, E.
- Marx, J. N.
- McIntyre, G.
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McIver, J.
- Meshkov, S.
- Pedraza, M.
- Perreca, A.
- Price, L. R.
- Quintero, E. A.
- Reitze, D. H.
- Robertson, N. A.
- Rollins, J. G.
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Sachdev, S.
- Sanchez, E. J.
- Schmidt, P.
- Singer, A.
- Smith, N. D.
- Smith, R. J. E.
- Taylor, R.
- Thirugnanasambandam, M. P.
- Torrie, C. I.
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Vajente, G.
- Vass, S.
- Wallace, L.
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Weinstein, A. J.
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Williams, R. D.
- Wipf, C. C.
- Yamamoto, H.
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Zhang, L.
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Zucker, M. E.
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Zweizig, J.
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Chen, Yanbei
- Engels, W.
- LIGO Scientific Collaboration
- Virgo Collaboration
Abstract
We report results of a deep all-sky search for periodic gravitational waves from isolated neutron stars in data from the S6 LIGO science run. The search was possible thanks to the computing power provided by the volunteers of the Einstein@Home distributed computing project. We find no significant signal candidate and set the most stringent upper limits to date on the amplitude of gravitational wave signals from the target population. At the frequency of best strain sensitivity, between 170.5 and 171 Hz we set a 90% confidence upper limit of 5.5×10^(−25), while at the high end of our frequency range, around 505 Hz, we achieve upper limits ≃10^(−24). At 230 Hz we can exclude sources with ellipticities greater than 10^(−6) within 100 pc of Earth with fiducial value of the principal moment of inertia of 10 38   kg m^2. If we assume a higher (lower) gravitational wave spin-down we constrain farther (closer) objects to higher (lower) ellipticities.
Additional Information
© 2016 Published by the American Physical Society. Published by the American Physical Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the published article's title, journal citation, and DOI. Received 6 July 2016; published 18 November 2016. The authors gratefully acknowledge the support of the Einstein@Home volunteers, 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 Educación y Ciencia, the Conselleria d'Economia Hisenda i Innovació of the Govern de les Illes Balears, the Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter supported by the Netherlands Organization 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 No. LIGO-P1600156-v22.Attached Files
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- NSF
- Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)
- Max-Planck-Society
- State of Niedersachsen/Germany
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN)
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
- Australian Research Council
- Commonwealth of Australia
- Council of Scientific and Industrial Research of India
- Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia (MEC)
- Conselleria d'Economia Hisenda i Innovació of the Govern de les Illes Balears
- Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (NWO)
- Ministry of Science and Higher Education (Poland)
- 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
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- LIGO-P1600156-v22