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Setting upper limits on the strength of periodic gravitational waves from PSR J1939+2134 using the first science data from the GEO 600 and LIGO detectors

Abbott, B. and Abbott, R. and Adhikari, Rana X. and Ageev, A. and Allen, B. and Amin, R. and Anderson, S. B. and Anderson, W. G. and Araya, M. and Armandula, H. and Asiri, F. and Aufmuth, P. and Aulbert, C. and Babak, S. and Balasubramanian, R. and Ballmer, S. and Barish, B. C. and Barker, D. and Barker-Patton, C. and Barnes, M. and Barr, B. and Barton, M. A. and Bayer, K. and Beausoleil, R. and Belczynski, K. and Bennett, R. and Berukoff, S. J. and Betzwieser, J. and Bhawal, B. and Bilenko, I. A. and Billingsley, G. and Black, E. and Blackburn, K. and Bland-Weaver, B. and Bochner, B. and Bogue, L. and Bork, R. and Bose, S. and Brady, P. R. and Braginsky, V. B. and Brau, J. E. and Brown, D. A. and Brozek, S. and Bullington, A. and Buonanno, A. and Burgess, R. and Busby, D. and Butler, W. E. and Byer, R. L. and Cadonati, L. and Cagnoli, G. and Camp, J. B. and Cantley, C. A. and Cardenas, L. and Carter, K. and Casey, M. 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V. and Torres, C. and Torrie, C. and Traeger, S. and Traylor, G. and Tyler, W. and Ugolini, D. and Vallisneri, M. and van Putten, M. and Vass, S. and Vecchio, A. and Vorvick, C. and Vyachanin, S. P. and Wallace, L. and Walther, H. and Ward, H. and Ware, B. and Watts, K. and Webber, D. and Weidner, A. and Weiland, U. and Weiss, R. and Welling, H. and Wen, L. and Wen, S. and Whelan, J. T. and Whitcomb, S. E. and Whiting, B. F. and Willems, P. A. and Williams, P. R. and Williams, R. and Willke, B. and Wilson, A. and Winjum, B. J. and Winkler, W. and Wise, S. and Wiseman, A. G. and Woan, G. and Wooley, R. and Worden, J. and Yakushin, I. and Yamamoto, H. and Yoshida, S. and Zawischa, I. and Zhang, L. and Zotov, N. and Zucker, M. and Zweizig, J. and Weinstein, Alan J. (2004) Setting upper limits on the strength of periodic gravitational waves from PSR J1939+2134 using the first science data from the GEO 600 and LIGO detectors. Physical Review D, 69 (8). Art. No. 082004. ISSN 2470-0010. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.69.082004. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:ABBprd04a

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Abstract

Data collected by the GEO 600 and LIGO interferometric gravitational wave detectors during their first observational science run were searched for continuous gravitational waves from the pulsar J1939+2134 at twice its rotation frequency. Two independent analysis methods were used and are demonstrated in this paper: a frequency domain method and a time domain method. Both achieve consistent null results, placing new upper limits on the strength of the pulsar's gravitational wave emission. A model emission mechanism is used to interpret the limits as a constraint on the pulsar's equatorial ellipticity.


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AuthorORCID
Adhikari, Rana X.0000-0002-5731-5076
Billingsley, G.0000-0002-4141-2744
Bose, S.0000-0002-3445-4479
Brady, P. R.0000-0002-4611-9387
Brown, D. A.0000-0002-9180-5765
Byer, R. L.0000-0003-1331-0318
Chen, Y.0000-0002-9730-9463
Corbitt, T.0000-0002-5520-8541
Coyne, D.0000-0002-6427-3222
Fejer, M. M.0000-0002-5512-1905
Freise, A.0000-0001-6586-9901
Kalogera, V.0000-0001-9236-5469
Kozak, D.0000-0003-3118-8950
Libbrecht, K.0000-0002-8744-3298
Mueller, G.0000-0001-8010-742X
Ottaway, D. J.0000-0001-6794-1591
Quetschke, V.0000-0002-8012-4868
Smith, M.0000-0002-3321-1432
Tanner, D. B.0000-0003-1940-4710
Tinto, M.0000-0002-8107-5148
Vallisneri, M.0000-0002-4162-0033
Vecchio, A.0000-0002-6254-1617
Whiting, B. F.0000-0002-8501-8669
Williams, R.0000-0002-9145-8580
Zhang, L.0000-0002-0898-787X
Zucker, M.0000-0002-2544-1596
Zweizig, J.0000-0002-1521-3397
Weinstein, Alan J.0000-0002-0928-6784
Additional Information:© 2004 The American Physical Society. Received 17 September 2003; published 30 April 2004. The authors gratefully acknowledge the support of the U.S. National Science Foundation for the construction and operation of the LIGO Laboratory and the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council of the United Kingdom, the Max-Planck-Society, and the State of Niedersachsen/Germany for support of the construction and operation of the GEO600 detector. The authors also gratefully acknowledge the support of the research by these agencies and by the Australian Research Council, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research of India, the Department of Science and Technology of India, the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnologia, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the Research Corporation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
Group:TAPIR, LIGO
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Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council (PPARC)UNSPECIFIED
Max Planck SocietyUNSPECIFIED
State of Niedersachsen/GermanyUNSPECIFIED
Australian Research CouncilUNSPECIFIED
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)UNSPECIFIED
Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (India)UNSPECIFIED
Department of Science and Technology (India)UNSPECIFIED
Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia (MEC)UNSPECIFIED
John Simon Guggenheim FoundationUNSPECIFIED
David and Lucile Packard FoundationUNSPECIFIED
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Alfred P. Sloan FoundationUNSPECIFIED
Subject Keywords:ROTATING RELATIVISTIC STARS; ACCRETING NEUTRON-STARS; X-RAY BINARIES; MILLISECOND PULSARS; RADIATION; INTERFEROMETER; INSTABILITY; B1937+21; SEARCH
Issue or Number:8
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevD.69.082004
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