First Search for Gravitational Waves from Known Pulsars with Advanced LIGO

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

4-7-2017

Keywords

Pulsars, LIGO, Gravitational waves

Abstract

We present the result of searches for gravitational waves from 200 pulsars using data from the first observing run of the Advanced LIGO detectors. We find no significant evidence for a gravitational-wave signal from any of these pulsars, but we are able to set the most constraining upper limits yet on their gravitational-wave amplitudes and ellipticities. For eight of these pulsars, our upper limits give bounds that are improvements over the indirect spin-down limit values. For another 32, we are within a factor of 10 of the spin-down limit, and it is likely that some of these will be reachable in future runs of the advanced detector. Taken as a whole, these new results improve on previous limits by more than a factor of two.

Journal Title

Astrophysical Journal

Volume

839

Issue

1

First Page

12

Last Page

31

DOI

10.3847/1538-4357/aa677f

First Department

Physics

Link to Full Text

Share

COinS