Search for gravitational waves associated with the August 2006 timing glitch of the Vela pulsar

Authors

J. Abadie
B. P. Abbott
R. AbbottFollow
R. Adhikari
Matthew Benacquista, The University of Texas Rio Grande ValleyFollow
Teviet Creighton, The University of Texas Rio Grande ValleyFollow
Mario C. Diaz, The University of Texas Rio Grande ValleyFollow
Soumya Mohanty, The University of Texas Rio Grande ValleyFollow
Soma Mukherjee, The University of Texas Rio Grande ValleyFollow
Volker Quetschke, The University of Texas Rio Grande ValleyFollow
Malik Rakhmanov, The University of Texas Rio Grande ValleyFollow
Joseph D. Romano, The University of Texas Rio Grande ValleyFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2-1-2011

Abstract

The physical mechanisms responsible for pulsar timing glitches are thought to excite quasinormal mode oscillations in their parent neutron star that couple to gravitational-wave emission. In August 2006, a timing glitch was observed in the radio emission of PSR B0833-45, the Vela pulsar. At the time of the glitch, the two colocated Hanford gravitational-wave detectors of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave observatory (LIGO) were operational and taking data as part of the fifth LIGO science run (S5). We present the first direct search for the gravitational-wave emission associated with oscillations of the fundamental quadrupole mode excited by a pulsar timing glitch. No gravitational-wave detection candidate was found. We place Bayesian 90% confidence upper limits of 6.3×10-21 to 1.4×10 -20 on the peak intrinsic strain amplitude of gravitational-wave ring-down signals, depending on which spherical harmonic mode is excited. The corresponding range of energy upper limits is 5.0×1044 to 1.3×1045erg. © 2011 American Physical Society.

Comments

© Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology. Original version available at: http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.83.042001

Recommended Citation

Abadie, J., B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, R. Adhikari, P. Ajith, Bea Allen, G. Allen et al. "Search for gravitational waves associated with the August 2006 timing glitch of the Vela pulsar." Physical Review D—Particles, Fields, Gravitation, and Cosmology 83, no. 4 (2011): 042001. http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.83.042001

Publication Title

Physical Review D

DOI

10.1103/PhysRevD.83.042001