All-sky Search for Periodic Gravitational Waves in the O1 LIGO Data

Benjamin Abbott , Rich Abbott , Thomas Abbott , Fausto Acernese , Kendall Ackley , Carl Adams , Thomas Adams (1) , Paolo Addesso , Rana Adhikari , Vaishali Adya , Christoph Affeldt , Mohammad Afrough , Bhanu Agarwal , Kazuhiro Agatsuma , Nancy Aggarwal , Odylio Aguiar , Lorenzo Aiello , Anirban Ain , P. Ajith , Bruce Allen , Gabrielle Allen , Annalisa Allocca , Paul Altin , A. Amato (2) , Alena Ananyeva , Stuart Anderson , Warren Anderson , Sarah Antier (3) , Stephen Appert , Koji Arai , Melody Araya , Joseph Areeda , Nicolas Arnaud (3) , Stefano Ascenzi , Gregory Ashton , M. Ast , Stuart Aston , Pia Astone , Peter Aufmuth , Carsten Aulbert , K. Aultoneal , A. Avila-Alvarez , Stanislav Babak , Philippe Bacon (4) , Maria Bader , Sangwook Bae , Paul Baker , Francesca Baldaccini , Giulio Ballardin , Stefan Ballmer , Sharan Banagiri , Juan Barayoga , Sheena Barclay , Barry Barish , David Barker , Fabrizio Barone , Bryan Barr , Lisa Barsotti , Matteo Barsuglia (4) , Daniel Barta , Jeffrey Bartlett , Imre Bartos , Riccardo Bassiri , Andrea Basti , James Batch , Christoph Baune , M. Bawaj , Marco Bazzan , Bence Bécsy , Christian Beer , Michal Bejger , Imene Belahcene (3) , Angus Bell , Beverly Berger , Gerald Bergmann , Christopher Berry , Diego Bersanetti , Alessandro Bertolini , Joseph Betzwieser , Swetha Bhagwat , Rohan Bhandare , Igor Bilenko , Garilynn Billingsley , Chris Billman , Jeremy Birch , Ross Birney , Ofek Birnholtz , Sebastien Biscans , Aparna Bisht , Massimiliano Bitossi , Christopher Biwer , Marieanne Bizouard (3) , J.K. Blackburn , Jonathan Blackman , Carl Blair , David Blair , Ryan Blair , Steven Bloemen , Oliver Bock , Nina Bode , Michel Boer , G. Bogaert , Alejandro Bohe , François Bondu , Romain Bonnand (1) , Boris Boom , Rolf Bork , Valerio Boschi , Sukanta Bose , Yann Bouffanais (4) , Antonella Bozzi , Carlo Bradaschia , Patrick Brady , Vladimir Braginsky , Marica Branchesi , Jim Brau , Tristan Briant , Alain Brillet , Marc Brinkmann , Violette Brisson (3) , Patrick Brockill , Jacob Broida , Aidan Brooks , Duncan Brown , Daniel Brown , Nicolas Brown , Sharon Brunett , Christopher Buchanan , Aaron Buikema , Tomasz Bulik , Henk Bulten , Alessandra Buonanno , Damir Buskulic (1) , Christelle Buy (4) , Robert Byer , Miriam Cabero , Laura Cadonati , Giampietro Cagnoli (2, 5) , Craig Cahillane , J. Calderón Bustillo , Thomas Callister , Enrico Calloni , Jordan Camp , Priscilla Canizares , Kipp Cannon , H. Cao , Junwei Cao , Collin Capano , Eleonora Capocasa (4) , Franco Carbognani , Santiago Caride , Matthew Carney , J. Casanueva Diaz (3) , Claudio Casentini , Sarah Caudill , Marco Cavaglià , F. Cavalier (3) , Roberto Cavalieri , Giancarlo Cella , Christian Cepeda , L. Cerboni Baiardi , Giovanni Cerretani , Elisabetta Cesarini , Sydney Chamberlin , Manleong Chan , Shiuh Chao , Philip Charlton , Eric Chassande-Mottin , Deep Chatterjee , Belinda Cheeseboro , H.Y. Chen , Yanbei Chen , H.-P. Cheng , Andrea Chincarini , Antonino Chiummo , Theresa Chmiel , Heesuk Cho , M. Cho , Jong Chow , Nelson Christensen , Qi Chu , Alvin Chua , Sheon Chua , A.K.W. Chung , Shinkee Chung , Giacomo Ciani , P. Ciecielag , Riccardo Ciolfi , Carissa Cirelli , Alessio Cirone , Filiberto Clara , James Clark , Frederic Cleva , Camillo Cocchieri , Eugenio Coccia , P.-F. Cohadon , Alberto Colla , Christophe Collette , Lynn Cominsky , M. 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1 LAPP - Laboratoire d'Annecy de Physique des Particules
2 LMA - Laboratoire des matériaux avancés
3 LAL - Laboratoire de l'Accélérateur Linéaire
4 APC - Cosmologie
5 ILM - Institut Lumière Matière [Villeurbanne]

We report on an all-sky search for periodic gravitational waves in the frequency band 20–475 Hz and with a frequency time derivative in the range of [-1.0,+0.1]×10-8  Hz/s. Such a signal could be produced by a nearby spinning and slightly nonaxisymmetric isolated neutron star in our galaxy. This search uses the data from Advanced LIGO’s first observational run, O1. No periodic gravitational wave signals were observed, and upper limits were placed on their strengths. The lowest upper limits on worst-case (linearly polarized) strain amplitude h0 are ∼4×10-25 near 170 Hz. For a circularly polarized source (most favorable orientation), the smallest upper limits obtained are ∼1.5×10-25. These upper limits refer to all sky locations and the entire range of frequency derivative values. For a population-averaged ensemble of sky locations and stellar orientations, the lowest upper limits obtained for the strain amplitude are ∼2.5×10-25.

Mots clés: frequency: time dependence; gravitational radiation: emission; gravitational radiation detector; gravitational radiation: background; detector: sensitivity; statistical analysis; data analysis method; LIGO; neutron star; galaxy

Domaines: Relativité Générale et Cosmologie Quantique [gr-qc]; Instrumentations et Détecteurs [physics.ins-det]

Benjamin Abbott, Rich Abbott, Thomas Abbott, Fausto Acernese, Kendall Ackley, et al.. All-sky Search for Periodic Gravitational Waves in the O1 LIGO Data. Physical Review D, 2017, 96 (6), pp.062002. ⟨10.1103/PhysRevD.96.062002⟩. ⟨hal-01645676⟩