First low-frequency Einstein@Home all-sky search for continuous gravitational waves in Advanced LIGO data

Authors

B. P. Abbott, California Institute of Technology
R. Abbott, Louisiana State University
T. D. Abbott, University of Salerno
F. Acernese, Complesso Universitario di Monte sant'Angelo
K. Ackley, University of Florida
C. Adams, Universite de Savoie
T. Adams, University of Sannio
P. Addesso, Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute)
R. X. Adhikari, University of Mississippi
V. B. Adya, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
C. Affeldt, National Institute for Subatomic Physics
M. Afrough, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
B. Agarwal, National Institute for Space Research
K. Agatsuma, Gran Sasso Science Institute
N. Aggarwal, National Institute for Nuclear Physics
O. D. Aguiar, Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics India
L. Aiello, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
A. Ain, Leibniz University Hannover
B. Allen, University of Pisa
G. Allen, Sezione di Pisa
A. Allocca, Australian National University
P. A. Altin, Institut National de Physique Nucleaire et de Physique des Particules
A. Amato, ComUE Paris-Saclay
A. Ananyeva, California State University Fullerton
S. B. Anderson, European Gravitational Observatory
W. G. Anderson, University of Rome Tor Vergata
S. Antier, University of Hamburg
S. Appert, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
K. Arai, Universite Paris 7
M. C. Araya, Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information
Marc Favata, Montclair State UniversityFollow
Shaon Ghosh, Montclair State UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

12-15-2017

Journal / Book Title

Physical Review D

Abstract

We report results of a deep all-sky search for periodic gravitational waves from isolated neutron stars in data from the first Advanced LIGO observing run. This search investigates the low frequency range of Advanced LIGO data, between 20 and 100 Hz, much of which was not explored in initial LIGO. The search was made possible by the computing power provided by the volunteers of the Einstein@Home 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, corresponding to a sensitivity depth of 48.7 [1/Hz]. At the frequency of best strain sensitivity, near 100 Hz, we set 90% confidence upper limits of 1.8×10-25. At the low end of our frequency range, 20 Hz, we achieve upper limits of 3.9×10-24. At 55 Hz we can exclude sources with ellipticities greater than 10-5 within 100 pc of Earth with fiducial value of the principal moment of inertia of 1038 kg m2.

DOI

10.1103/PhysRevD.96.122004

MSU Digital Commons Citation

Abbott, B. P.; Abbott, R.; Abbott, T. D.; Acernese, F.; Ackley, K.; Adams, C.; Adams, T.; Addesso, P.; Adhikari, R. X.; Adya, V. B.; Affeldt, C.; Afrough, M.; Agarwal, B.; Agatsuma, K.; Aggarwal, N.; Aguiar, O. D.; Aiello, L.; Ain, A.; Allen, B.; Allen, G.; Allocca, A.; Altin, P. A.; Amato, A.; Ananyeva, A.; Anderson, S. B.; Anderson, W. G.; Antier, S.; Appert, S.; Arai, K.; Araya, M. C.; Favata, Marc; and Ghosh, Shaon, "First low-frequency Einstein@Home all-sky search for continuous gravitational waves in Advanced LIGO data" (2017). Department of Physics and Astronomy Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works. 54.
https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/physics-astron-facpubs/54

Published Citation

Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T. D., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., Adams, C., ... & Caride, S. (2017). First low-frequency Einstein@ Home all-sky search for continuous gravitational waves in Advanced LIGO data. Physical Review D, 96(12), 122004.