Gravitational-waves from known pulsars: results from the initial detector era

Gravitational-waves from known pulsars: results from the initial detector era. Aasi, J., Abadie, J., Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abernathy, M. R., Adhikari, R. X., Ajith, P., Anderson, R. A., Anderson, S. B., Arai, K., Araya, M. C., Austin, L., Barayoga, J. C., Billingsley, G., Black, E., Blackburn, J. K., Bork, R., Brooks, A. F., Cepeda, C., Chakraborty, R., Chalermsongsak, T., Coyne, D. C., Daudert, B., Dergachev, V., Driggers, J. C., Ehrens, P., Etzel, T., Fotopoulos, N., Gushwa, K. E., Gustafson, E. K., Hall, E., Harms, J., Heefner, J., Heptonstall, A. W., Hodge, K. A., Ivanov, A., Jacobson, M., James, E., Kalmus, P., Kells, W., King, P. J., Kondrashov, V., Korth, W. Z., Kozak, D., Lazzarini, A., Lewis, J. B., Litvine, V., Lloyd, D., Mageswaran, M., Mailand, K., Maros, E., Martynov, D., Marx, J. N., McIntyre, G., Meshkov, S., Nash, T., Ogin, G. H., Osthelder, C., Patel, P., Pedraza, M., Phelps, M., Poux, C., Price, L. R., Privitera, S., Quintero, E., Raymond, V., Reitze, D. H., Robertson, N. A., Rollins, J. G., Sannibale, V., Seifert, F., Singer, A., Singer, L., Smith, M. R., Smith-Lefebvre, N. D., Taylor, R., Thirugnanasambandam, M. P., Thrane, E., Torrie, C. I., Vass, S., Wallace, L., Weinstein, A. J., Whitcomb, S. E., Williams, R., Yamamoto, H., Yeaton-Massey, D., Zhang, L., Zweizig, J., Chen, Y., Gossan, S., Hong, T., Kaufman, K., Luan, J., Miao, H., Thorne, K. S., Vallisneri, M., Yang, H., & Drever, R. W. P. Technical Report CaltechAUTHORS:20130930-103904702, September, 2013. The authors gratefully acknowledge the support of the United States National Science Foundation for the construction and operation of the LIGO Laboratory, the Science and Technology Facilities 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, and the Italian Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare and the French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique for the construction and operation of the Virgo detector. The authors also gratefully acknowledge the support of the research by these agencies and by the Australian Research Council, the International Science Linkages program of the Commonwealth of Australia, the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research of India, the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare of Italy, the Spanish Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad, the Conselleria d'Economia Hisenda i Innovaci? of the Govern de les Illes Balears, the Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter supported by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education, the FOCUS Programme of Foundation for Polish Science, the Royal Society, the Scottish Funding Council, the Scottish Universities Physics Alliance, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, OTKA of Hungary, the Lyon Institute of Origins (LIO), the National Research Foundation of Korea, Industry Canada and the Province of Ontario through the Ministry of Economic Development and Innovation, the National Science and Engineering Research Council Canada, the Carnegie Trust, the Leverhulme Trust, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the Research Corporation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The Nançay Radio Observatory is operated by the Paris Observatory, associated with the French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. LIGO Document No. LIGO-P1200104.

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We present the results of searches for gravitational-waves from a large selection of pulsars using data from the most recent science runs (S6, VSR2 and VSR4) of the initial generation of interferometric gravitational-wave detectors LIGO (Laser Interferometric Gravitational-wave Observatory) and Virgo. We do not see evidence for gravitational-wave emission from any of the targeted sources but produce upper limits on the emission amplitude. We highlight the results from seven young pulsars with large spin-down luminosities. We reach within a factor of five of the canonical spin-down limit for all seven of these, whilst for the Crab and Vela pulsars we further surpass their spin-down limits. We present new or updated limits for 172 other pulsars (including both young and millisecond pulsars). Now that the detectors are undergoing major upgrades, and, for completeness, we bring together all of the most up-to-date results from all pulsars searched for during the operations of the first-generation LIGO, Virgo and GEO600 detectors. This gives a total of 195 pulsars including the most recent results described in this paper.

@techreport{caltechauthors41552,
number = {CaltechAUTHORS:20130930-103904702},
month = {September},
type = {Discussion Paper},
title = {Gravitational-waves from known pulsars: results from the initial detector era},
author = {J. Aasi and J. Abadie and B. P. Abbott and R. Abbott and M. R. Abernathy and R. X. Adhikari and P. Ajith and R. A. Anderson and S. B. Anderson and K. Arai and M. C. Araya and L. Austin and J. C. Barayoga and G. Billingsley and E. Black and J. K. Blackburn and R. Bork and A. F. Brooks and C. Cepeda and R. Chakraborty and T. Chalermsongsak and D. C. Coyne and B. Daudert and V. Dergachev and J. C. Driggers and P. Ehrens and T. Etzel and N. Fotopoulos and K. E. Gushwa and E. K. Gustafson and E. Hall and J. Harms and J. Heefner and A. W. Heptonstall and K. A. Hodge and A. Ivanov and M. Jacobson and E. James and P. Kalmus and W. Kells and P. J. King and V. Kondrashov and W. Z. Korth and D. Kozak and A. Lazzarini and J. B. Lewis and V. Litvine and D. Lloyd and M. Mageswaran and K. Mailand and E. Maros and D. Martynov and J. N. Marx and G. McIntyre and S. Meshkov and T. Nash and G. H. Ogin and C. Osthelder and P. Patel and M. Pedraza and M. Phelps and C. Poux and L. R. Price and S. Privitera and E. Quintero and V. Raymond and D. H. Reitze and N. A. Robertson and J. G. Rollins and V. Sannibale and F. Seifert and A. Singer and L. Singer and M. R. Smith and N. D. Smith-Lefebvre and R. Taylor and M. P. Thirugnanasambandam and E. Thrane and C. I. Torrie and S. Vass and L. Wallace and A. J. Weinstein and S. E. Whitcomb and R. Williams and H. Yamamoto and D. Yeaton-Massey and L. Zhang and J. Zweizig and Y. Chen and S. Gossan and T. Hong and K. Kaufman and J. Luan and H. Miao and K. S. Thorne and M. Vallisneri and H. Yang and R. W. P. Drever},
year = {2013},
note = {The authors gratefully acknowledge the support of the
United States National Science Foundation for the construction and operation of the LIGO Laboratory, the
Science and Technology Facilities 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, and the Italian
Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare and the French Centre
National de la Recherche Scientifique for the construction
and operation of the Virgo detector. The authors also gratefully acknowledge the support of the research by these agencies and by the Australian Research Council, the International Science Linkages program of the Commonwealth of Australia, the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research of India, the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare of Italy, the Spanish Ministerio de Econom{\'i}a y Competitividad, the Conselleria d'Economia Hisenda i Innovaci? of the Govern de les Illes Balears, the Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter supported by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education, the FOCUS Programme of Foundation for Polish Science, the Royal Society, the Scottish Funding Council, the Scottish Universities Physics Alliance, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, OTKA of Hungary, the Lyon Institute of Origins (LIO), the National Research Foundation of Korea,
Industry Canada and the Province of Ontario through the Ministry of Economic Development and Innovation, the National Science and Engineering Research Council Canada, the Carnegie Trust, the Leverhulme Trust, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the Research Corporation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The Nan{\cc}ay Radio Observatory is operated by the Paris Observatory, associated with the French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. LIGO Document No. LIGO-P1200104.},
keywords = {gravitational-waves - pulsars: general},
url = {http://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20130930-103904702},
abstract = {We present the results of searches for gravitational-waves from a large selection of pulsars using data from the most recent science runs (S6, VSR2 and VSR4) of the initial generation of interferometric gravitational-wave detectors LIGO (Laser Interferometric Gravitational-wave Observatory) and Virgo. We do not see evidence for gravitational-wave emission from any of the targeted sources but produce upper limits on the emission amplitude. We highlight the results from seven young pulsars with large spin-down luminosities. We reach within a factor of five of the canonical spin-down limit for all seven of these, whilst for the Crab and Vela pulsars we further surpass their spin-down limits. We present new or updated limits for 172 other pulsars (including both young and millisecond pulsars). Now that
the detectors are undergoing major upgrades, and, for completeness, we bring together all of the most up-to-date results from all pulsars searched for during the operations of the first-generation LIGO, Virgo and GEO600 detectors. This gives a total of 195 pulsars including the most recent results described in this paper.}
}

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