Narrow-band search for gravitational waves from known pulsars using the second LIGO observing run

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Abstract

Isolated spinning neutron stars, asymmetric with respect to their rotation axis, are expected to be sources of continuous gravitational waves. The most sensitive searches for these sources are based on accurate matched filtering techniques that assume the continuous wave to be phase locked with the pulsar beamed emission. While matched filtering maximizes the search sensitivity, a significant signal-to-noise ratio loss will happen in the case of a mismatch between the assumed and the true signal phase evolution. Narrow-band algorithms allow for a small mismatch in the frequency and spin-down values of the pulsar while coherently integrating the entire dataset. In this paper, we describe a narrow-band search using LIGO O2 data for the continuous wave emission of 33 pulsars. No evidence of a continuous wave signal is found, and upper limits on the gravitational wave amplitude over the analyzed frequency and spin-down ranges are computed for each of the targets. In this search, we surpass the spin-down limit, namely, the maximum rotational energy loss due to gravitational waves emission for some of the pulsars already present in the LIGO O1 narrow-band search, such as J1400-6325, J1813-1246, J1833-1034, J1952+3252, and for new targets such as J0940-5428 and J1747-2809. For J1400-6325, J1833-1034, and J1747-2809, this is the first time the spin-down limit is surpassed.

Original languageEnglish
Article number122002
JournalPhysical Review D
Volume99
Issue number12
DOIs
StatePublished - 27 Jun 2019
Externally publishedYes

Funding

FundersFunder number
Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, India
Ministry of Human Resource Development
Australian Research Council
ICTP South American Institute for Fundamental Research
Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia, Inovações e Comunicações
National Research Foundation of Korea
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Narodowe Centrum Nauki
Scottish Universities Physics Alliance
Scottish Funding Council
Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan
Leverhulme Trust
Science and Engineering Research Board
Instituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare
Ontario Ministry of Economic Development and Innovation
Department of Science and Technology, Ministry of Science and Technology, India
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Kavli Foundation
European Commission
Russian Foundation for Basic Research
Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences
Agencia Estatal de Investigación
Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research for the construction and operation of the Virgo detector
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
Research Grants Council, University Grants Committee
Russian Science Foundation
Hungarian Scientific Research Fund
Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung
Institut des Origines de Lyon
Royal Society
Canadian Institute for Advanced Research
Universitat de les Illes Balears
European Regional Development Fund
Generalitat Valenciana
National Research, Development and Innovation Office
Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare
National Natural Science Foundation of China
Not addedST/P000649/1, ST/N005422/1, ST/N005406/2, ST/I006269/1, ST/N000633/1, ST/K000845/1, ST/N000072/1, ST/J00166X/1, ST/N005430/1, ST/H002006/1
National Science Foundation1708081, 1707965, 1806824, 1700765, 1707835, 1806461, 1806990

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