FIRST SEARCH FOR GRAVITATIONAL WAVES FROM THE YOUNGEST KNOWN NEUTRON STAR

被引:99
作者
Abadie, J. [1 ]
Abbott, B. P. [1 ]
Abbott, R. [1 ]
Abernathy, M. [2 ]
Adams, C. [3 ]
Adhikari, R. [1 ]
Ajith, P. [1 ]
Allen, B. [4 ,5 ]
Allen, G. [6 ]
Ceron, E. Amador [5 ]
Amin, R. S. [7 ]
Anderson, S. B. [1 ]
Anderson, W. G. [5 ]
Arain, M. A. [8 ]
Araya, M. [1 ]
Aronsson, M. [1 ]
Aso, Y. [1 ]
Aston, S. [9 ]
Atkinson, D. E. [10 ]
Aufmuth, P. [11 ]
Aulbert, C. [4 ]
Babak, S. [12 ]
Baker, P. [13 ]
Ballmer, S. [1 ]
Barker, D. [10 ]
Barnum, S. [14 ]
Barr, B. [2 ]
Barriga, P. [15 ]
Barsotti, L. [16 ]
Barton, M. A. [10 ]
Bartos, I. [17 ]
Bassiri, R. [2 ]
Bastarrika, M. [2 ]
Bauchrowitz, J. [4 ]
Behnke, B. [12 ]
Benacquista, M. [18 ]
Bertolini, A. [1 ,2 ,4 ,7 ]
Betzwieser, J. [1 ]
Beveridge, N. [2 ]
Beyersdorf, P. T. [19 ]
Bilenko, I. A. [20 ]
Billingsley, G. [1 ]
Birch, J. [3 ]
Biswas, R. [5 ]
Black, E. [1 ]
Blackburn, J. K. [1 ]
Blackburn, L. [16 ]
Blair, D. [15 ]
Bland, B. [1 ,10 ]
Bock, O. [4 ]
机构
[1] CALTECH, LIGO, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA
[2] Univ Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, Lanark, Scotland
[3] LIGO Livingston Observ, Livingston, LA 70754 USA
[4] Max Planck Inst Gravitat Phys, Albert Einstein Inst, D-30167 Hannover, Germany
[5] Univ Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI 53201 USA
[6] Stanford Univ, Stanford, CA 94305 USA
[7] Louisiana State Univ, Baton Rouge, LA 70803 USA
[8] Univ Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611 USA
[9] Univ Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, W Midlands, England
[10] LIGO Hanford Observ, Richland, WA 99352 USA
[11] Leibniz Univ Hannover, D-30167 Hannover, Germany
[12] Max Planck Inst Gravitat Phys, Albert Einstein Inst, D-14476 Golm, Germany
[13] Montana State Univ, Bozeman, MT 59717 USA
[14] Sonoma State Univ, Rohnert Pk, CA 94928 USA
[15] Univ Western Australia, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia
[16] MIT, LIGO, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
[17] Columbia Univ, New York, NY 10027 USA
[18] Univ Texas Brownsville & Texas Southmost Coll, Brownsville, TX 78520 USA
[19] San Jose State Univ, San Jose, CA 95192 USA
[20] Moscow MV Lomonosov State Univ, Moscow 119992, Russia
[21] Penn State Univ, University Pk, PA 16802 USA
[22] CALTECH, CaRT, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA
[23] Univ Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403 USA
[24] Syracuse Univ, Syracuse, NY 13244 USA
[25] Univ Maryland, College Pk, MD 20742 USA
[26] NASA, Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA
[27] Tsinghua Univ, Beijing 100084, Peoples R China
[28] Univ Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA
[29] Univ Mississippi, University, MS 38677 USA
[30] Charles Sturt Univ, Wagga Wagga, NSW 2678, Australia
[31] Australian Natl Univ, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia
[32] Univ Melbourne, Parkville, Vic 3010, Australia
[33] Cardiff Univ, Cardiff CF24 3AA, S Glam, Wales
[34] Univ Salerno, I-84084 Salerno, Italy
[35] Embry Riddle Aeronaut Univ, Prescott, AZ 86301 USA
[36] Univ Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, S Yorkshire, England
[37] Interuniv Ctr Astron & Astrophys, Pune 411007, Maharashtra, India
[38] So Univ, Baton Rouge, LA 70813 USA
[39] A&M Coll, Baton Rouge, LA 70813 USA
[40] Univ Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455 USA
[41] Northwestern Univ, Evanston, IL 60208 USA
[42] Univ Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627 USA
[43] Univ Texas Austin, Austin, TX 78712 USA
[44] Eotvos Lorand Univ, Budapest, Hungary
[45] HSIC, Rutherford Appleton Lab, Didcot OX11 0QX, Oxon, England
[46] Univ Adelaide, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia
[47] Univ Illes Balears, E-07122 Palma de Mallorca, Spain
[48] Univ Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, Hants, England
[49] Natl Astron Observ Japan, Tokyo 1818588, Japan
[50] Inst Appl Phys, Nizhnii Novgorod 603950, Russia
基金
美国国家科学基金会; 美国国家航空航天局; 澳大利亚研究理事会;
关键词
gravitational waves; stars: neutron; supernovae: individual (Cassiopeia A); CASSIOPEIA-A SUPERNOVA; RAY POINT-SOURCE; COMPACT CENTRAL OBJECT; SPIN-DOWN; INFRARED ECHOES; BRAKING INDEX; REMNANT; CONSTRAINTS; SATURATION; EMISSION;
D O I
10.1088/0004-637X/722/2/1504
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
We present a search for periodic gravitational waves from the neutron star in the supernova remnant Cassiopeia A. The search coherently analyzes data in a 12 day interval taken from the fifth science run of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory. It searches gravitational-wave frequencies from 100 to 300 Hz and covers a wide range of first and second frequency derivatives appropriate for the age of the remnant and for different spin-down mechanisms. No gravitational-wave signal was detected. Within the range of search frequencies, we set 95% confidence upper limits of (0.7-1.2) x 10(-24) on the intrinsic gravitational-wave strain, (0.4-4) x 10(-4) on the equatorial ellipticity of the neutron star, and 0.005-0.14 on the amplitude of r-mode oscillations of the neutron star. These direct upper limits beat indirect limits derived from energy conservation and enter the range of theoretical predictions involving crystalline exotic matter or runaway r-modes. This paper is also the first gravitational-wave search to present upper limits on the r-mode amplitude.
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页码:1504 / 1513
页数:10
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