Title:	Directed search for continuous gravitational waves from the Galactic center
Authors:	Aasi, J. Abadie, J. Abbott, B.P. Abbott, R. Abbott, T. Iyer, B.R. +150 Co-authors
Issue Date:	15-Nov-2013
Publisher:	American Physical Society
Citation:	Physical Review D, 2013, Vol.88, p102002
Abstract:	We present the results of a directed search for continuous gravitational waves from unknown, isolated neutron stars in the Galactic center region, performed on two years of data from LIGO’s fifth science run from two LIGO detectors. The search uses a semicoherent approach, analyzing coherently 630 segments, each spanning 11.5 hours, and then incoherently combining the results of the single segments. It covers gravitational wave frequencies in a range from 78 to 496 Hz and a frequency-dependent range of first-order spindown values down to -7.86×10-8Hz/s at the highest frequency. No gravitational waves were detected. The 90% confidence upper limits on the gravitational wave amplitude of sources at the Galactic center are ˜3.35×10-25 for frequencies near 150 Hz. These upper limits are the most constraining to date for a large-parameter-space search for continuous gravitational wave signals.
Description:	Open Access
URI:	http://hdl.handle.net/2289/5906
ISSN:	1550-7998 1550-2368(Online)
Alternative Location:	http://arxiv.org/abs/1309.6221 http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.88.102002 http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2013PhRvD..88j2002A
Copyright:	2013 American Physical Society
Appears in Collections:	Research Papers (TP)

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