Limits on Gravitational-Wave Emission from Selected Pulsars Using LIGO Data

Authors

B. P. Abbott
R. Abbott
Mario C. Diaz, The University of Texas Rio Grande ValleyFollow
Wm. R. Johnston, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
Soumya Mohanty, The University of Texas Rio Grande ValleyFollow
Soma Mukherjee, The University of Texas Rio Grande ValleyFollow
Cristina V. Torres, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2005

Abstract

We place direct upper limits on the amplitude of gravitational waves from 28 isolated radio pulsars by a coherent multidetector analysis of the data collected during the second science run of the LIGO interferometric detectors. These are the first direct upper limits for 26 of the 28 pulsars. We use coordinated radio observations for the first time to build radio-guided phase templates for the expected gravitational-wave signals. The unprecedented sensitivity of the detectors allows us to set strain upper limits as low as a few times 10−24. These strain limits translate into limits on the equatorial ellipticities of the pulsars, which are smaller than 10−5 for the four closest pulsars.

Comments

© 2005 American Physical Society. Original published versional available at https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.181103

Recommended Citation

Abbott, B., et al. “Limits on Gravitational-Wave Emission from Selected Pulsars Using LIGO Data.” Physical Review Letters, vol. 94, no. 18, American Physical Society, May 2005, p. 181103, doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.181103.

Publication Title

Physical Review Letters

DOI

10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.181103