Setting upper limits on the strength of periodic gravitational waves using the first science data from the GEO600 and LIGO detectors

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15 August 2003

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Published by arXiv in arXiv

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.gr-qc/0308050

Abstract

Data collected by the GEO600 and LIGO interferometric gravitational wave detectors during their first observational science run were searched for continuous gravitational waves from the pulsar J1939+2134 at twice its rotation frequency. Two independent analysis methods were used and are demonstrated in this paper: a frequency domain method and a time domain method. Both achieve consistent null results, placing new upper limits on the strength of the pulsar's gravitational wave emission. A model emission mechanism is used to interpret the limits as a constraint on the pulsar's equatorial ellipticity.

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