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Search for continuous gravitational waves from neutron stars in globular cluster NGC 6544
Abbott, B. P.; Collette, Christophe; Fays, Maxime
2017In Physical Review. A, Atomic, molecular, and optical physics, 95 (8)
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Abstract :
[en] We describe a directed search for continuous gravitational waves in data from the sixth initial LIGO science run. The target was the nearby globular cluster NGC 6544 at a distance of ≈2.7 kpc. The search covered a broad band of frequencies along with first and second frequency derivatives for a fixed sky position. The search coherently integrated data from the two LIGO interferometers over a time span of 9.2 days using the matched-filtering F-statistic. We found no gravitational-wave signals and set 95 confidence upper limits as stringent as 6.0\?x10-25 on intrinsic strain and 8.5\?x10-6 on fiducial ellipticity. These values beat the indirect limits from energy conservation for stars with characteristic spin-down ages older than 300 years and are within the range of theoretical predictions for possible neutron-star ellipticities. An important feature of this search was use of a barycentric resampling algorithm which substantially reduced computational cost; this method is used extensively in searches of Advanced LIGO and Virgo detector data.
Disciplines :
Space science, astronomy & astrophysics
Author, co-author :
Abbott, B. P.
Collette, Christophe  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département d'aérospatiale et mécanique > Active aerospace struct. and adv. mecha. systems
Fays, Maxime  ;  Cardiff University
Language :
English
Title :
Search for continuous gravitational waves from neutron stars in globular cluster NGC 6544
Publication date :
2017
Journal title :
Physical Review. A, Atomic, molecular, and optical physics
ISSN :
1050-2947
eISSN :
1094-1622
Publisher :
American Physical Society
Volume :
95
Issue :
8
Peer reviewed :
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