Upper limits on the strength of periodic gravitational waves from PSR J1939+2134

被引:5
作者
Allen, B [1 ]
Woan, G
Abbott, B
Abbott, R
Adhikari, R
Allen, B [1 ]
Amin, R
Anderson, SB
Anderson, WG
Araya, M
Armandula, H
Asiri, F
Aufmuth, P
Aulbert, C
Babak, S
Balasubramanian, R
Ballmer, S
Barish, BC
Barker, D
Barker-Patton, C
Barnes, M
Barr, B
Barton, MA
Bayer, K
Beausoleil, R
Belczynski, K
Bennett, R
Berukoff, SJ
Betzwieser, J
Bhawal, B
Billingsley, G
Black, E
Blackburn, K
Bland-Weaver, B
Bochner, B
Bogue, L
Bork, R
Bose, S
Brady, PR
Brau, JE
Brown, DA
Brozek, S
Bullington, A
Buonanno, A
Burgess, R
Busby, D
Butler, WE
Byer, RL
Cadonati, L
Cagnoli, G
机构
[1] Albert Einstein Inst Gravitat Phys, D-14476 Golm, Germany
[2] Albert Einstein Inst Gravitat Phys, D-30157 Hannover, Germany
[3] Australian Natl Univ, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia
[4] CALTECH, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA
[5] Calif State Univ Dominguez Hills, Carson, CA 90747 USA
[6] CALTECH, CaRT, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA
[7] Cardiff Univ, Cardiff CF2 3YB, S Glam, Wales
[8] Carleton Coll, Northfield, MN 55057 USA
[9] Cornell Univ, Ithaca, NY 14853 USA
[10] Fermilab Natl Accelerator Lab, Batavia, IL 60510 USA
[11] Hobart & William Smith Coll, Geneva, NY 14456 USA
[12] Inter Univ Ctr Astron & Astrophys, Pune 411007, Maharashtra, India
[13] CALTECH, LIGO, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA
[14] MIT, LIGO, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
[15] LIGO Hanford Observ, Richland, WA 99352 USA
[16] LIGO Livingston Observ, Livingston, LA 70754 USA
[17] Louisiana State Univ, Baton Rouge, LA 70803 USA
[18] Louisiana Tech Univ, Ruston, LA 71272 USA
[19] Loyola Univ, New Orleans, LA 70118 USA
[20] Max Planck Inst Quantum Opt, D-85748 Garching, Germany
[21] NASA, Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA
[22] Natl Astron Observ, Tokyo 1818588, Japan
[23] Northwestern Univ, Evanston, IL 60208 USA
[24] Salish Kootenai Coll, Pablo, MT 59855 USA
[25] SE Louisiana Univ, Hammond, LA 70402 USA
[26] Stanford Univ, Stanford, CA 94305 USA
[27] Syracuse Univ, Syracuse, NY 13244 USA
[28] Penn State Univ, University Pk, PA 16802 USA
[29] Univ Texas, Brownsville, TX 78520 USA
[30] Texas Southmost Coll, Brownsville, TX 78520 USA
[31] Trinity Univ, San Antonio, TX 78212 USA
[32] Leibniz Univ Hannover, D-30167 Hannover, Germany
[33] Univ Illes Balears, E-07071 Palma de Mallorca, Spain
[34] Univ Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, W Midlands, England
[35] Univ Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611 USA
[36] Univ Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, Lanark, Scotland
[37] Univ Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA
[38] Univ Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403 USA
[39] Univ Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627 USA
[40] Univ Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI 53201 USA
[41] Washington State Univ, Pullman, WA 99164 USA
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10.1088/0264-9381/21/5/042
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P1 [天文学];
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0704 ;
摘要
The first science run of the LIGO and GEO gravitational wave detectors presented the opportunity to test methods of searching for gravitational waves from known pulsars. Here we present new direct upper limits on the strength of waves from the pulsar PSR J1939+2134 using two independent analysis methods, one in the frequency domain using frequentist statistics and one in the time domain using Bayesian inference. Both methods show that the strain amplitude at Earth from this pulsar is less than a few times 10(-22).
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页码:S671 / S676
页数:6
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