First search for gravitational waves from known pulsars with Advanced LIGO

B P Abbott , R Abbott , T D Abbott , M R Abernathy , F Acernese , K Ackley , C Adams , T. Adams (1) , P Addesso , R X Adhikari , V B Adya , C Affeldt , M Agathos , K Agatsuma , N Aggarwal , O D Aguiar , L Aiello , A Ain , P Ajith , B. Allen (2) , A Allocca , P A Altin , A Ananyeva , S B Anderson , W G Anderson , S Appert , K Arai , M C Araya , J S Areeda , N. Arnaud (3) , K. Arun (3) , S Ascenzi , G Ashton , M Ast , S M Aston , P Astone , P Aufmuth , C. Aulbert (2) , A Avila-Alvarez , S. Babak (4) , P. Bacon (5) , M. Bader (6) , P T Baker , F Baldaccini , G Ballardin , S W Ballmer , J C Barayoga , S E Barclay , B C Barish , D Barker , F Barone , B Barr , L Barsotti , M. Barsuglia (3, 5) , D Barta , J. Bartlett (7) , I. Bartos (8) , R Bassiri , A Basti , J C Batch , C Baune , V Bavigadda , M. Bazzan (9) , C. Beer (2) , M. Bejger (10) , I. Belahcene (3) , M Belgin , A S Bell , B K Berger , G Bergmann , C P L Berry , D Bersanetti , A Bertolini , J Betzwieser , S Bhagwat , R Bhandare , I A Bilenko , G Billingsley , C R Billman , J Birch , R Birney , O Birnholtz , S Biscans , A Bisht , M Bitossi , C Biwer , M. Bizouard (3) , J K Blackburn , J Blackman , C D Blair , D G Blair , R M Blair , S. Bloemen (11) , O Bock , M. Boer (12) , A. Bohé (13) , François Bondu (14) , R. Bonnand (15) , B A Boom , R Bork , V Boschi , S Bose , Y. Bouffanais (5) , A Bozzi , C Bradaschia , P R Brady , V B Braginsky , M Branchesi , J E Brau , T. Briant (16) , A. Brillet (17) , M. Brinkmann (18) , V. Brisson (3) , P Brockill , J E Broida , A F Brooks , D A Brown , N M Brown , S Brunett , C C Buchanan , A Buikema , T. Bulik (10) , H J Bulten , A. Buonanno , D. Buskulic (1) , C. Buy (5) , R L Byer , M Cabero , L. Cadonati (19) , G. Cagnoli (15) , C Cahillane , J Calderón Bustillo , T A Callister , E Calloni , S Chao , P Charlton , E. Chassande-Mottin (20, 5) , B D Cheeseboro , H y Chen , Y. Chen (21) , H.-P Cheng , A Chincarini , A Chiummo , T Chmiel , H S Cho , M Cho , J H Chow , N Christensen , Q Chu , A J K Chua , S. Chua (22) , S Chung , G Ciani , F Clara , J A Clark , F. Cleva (17) , C Cocchieri , E. Coccia (23) , P.-F Cohadon (16) , A Colla , C. Collette (24) , L Cominsky , M Constancio , L Conti , S. Cooper (25) , T R Corbitt , N Cornish , A Corsi , S Cortese , C A Costa , M W Coughlin , S B Coughlin , J.-P Coulon (17) , S T Countryman , P Couvares , P B Covas , E E Cowan , D M Coward , M J Cowart , D C Coyne , R Coyne , J D E Creighton , T D Creighton , J Cripe , S G Crowder , T J Cullen , A Cumming , L Cunningham , M C Díaz , L Di Fiore , M Di Giovanni , T Di Girolamo , A Di Lieto , S. Di Pace (17) , I Di Palma , A Di Virgilio , Z Doctor , V. Dolique (15) , F Donovan , K L Dooley , S Doravari , I Dorrington , R Douglas , M Dovalé Alvarez , T P Downes , M Drago , R W P Drever , J C Driggers , Z Du , M. Ducrot (1) , S E Dwyer , T B Edo , M C Edwards , A Effler , H.-B Eggenstein , P Ehrens , J Eichholz , S S Eikenberry , R A Eisenstein , R C Essick , Z Etienne , T Etzel , M Evans , T M Evans , R Everett , J.-D Fournier (26) , S Frasca , F Frasconi , Z Frei , A Freise , R. Frey , V. Frey (3) , E M Fries , P Fritschel , V V Frolov , P Fulda , M Fyffe , H Gabbard , B U Gadre , S M Gaebel , J A Giaime , K D Giardina , A Giazotto , K Gill , A Glaefke , E Goetz , R Goetz , L Gondan , G González , J M Gonzalez Castro , A Gopakumar , M L Gorodetsky , S E Gossan , M. Gosselin , R. Gouaty (1) , A Grado , C. Graef (15) , M. Granata , A Grant , S Gras , C Gray , G. Greco (27) , A C Green , P Groot , H Grote , S Grunewald , G M Guidi , X Guo , A. K. Gupta (28) , M K Gupta , K E Gushwa , E K Gustafson , R Gustafson , J. Hacker (29) , B. Hall (30) , E D Hall , G Hammond , M. Haney (31) , M. Hanke (32) , J Hanks , C Hanna , J Hanson , T Hardwick , J Harms , G M Harry , I W Harry , M J Hart , M T Hartman , C.-J Haster , K Haughian , J Healy , A. Heidmann (16) , M C Heintze , H. Heitmann (17) , P. Hello (3) , G Hemming , M Hendry , I S Heng , J Hennig , J. Henry , A W Heptonstall , M Heurs , S Hild , D Hoak , D. Hofman (15) , K Holt , D E Holz , P Hopkins , J Hough , E A Houston , E J Howell , Y. Hu (33) , E A Huerta , D Huet , J B Kanner , S Karki , K S Karvinen , M. Kasprzack (3) , E Katsavounidis , W Katzman , S Kaufer , T Kaur , K Kawabe , F. Kéfélian , D Keitel , D B Kelley , R Kennedy , J S Key , F y Khalili , I Khan , S Khan , Z. Khan (34) , E A Khazanov , N Kijbunchoo , Chunglee Kim , J. Kim (35) , G. Bogaert (17) , Ismaël Cognard (36, 37) , Lucas Guillemot (37, 36) , E Capocasa (5) , D. Fiorucci (5) , O. Lebigot (5) , M. Tacca (5) , S. Buchner (38, 37) , Paulo César Carvalho Freire (37)

1 LAPP - Laboratoire d'Annecy de Physique des Particules
2 AEI - Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik ( Albert-Einstein-Institut )
3 LAL - Laboratoire de l'Accélérateur Linéaire
4 AEI - Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute)
5 APC (UMR_7164) - AstroParticule et Cosmologie
6 MDC - Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine [Berlin]
7 PCC - Physique Corpusculaire et Cosmologie - Collège de France
8 Department of Physics
9 Dipartimento di Physica E. Firmi
10 CAMK - Copernicus Astronomical Center of the Polish Academy of Sciences
11 Instituut voor Sterrenkunde [Leuven]
12 OHP - Observatoire de Haute-Provence
13 IAP - Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris
14 IPR - Institut de Physique de Rennes
15 LMA - Laboratoire des matériaux avancés
16 LKB (Jussieu) - Laboratoire Kastler Brossel
17 ARTEMIS - Astrophysique Relativiste Théories Expériences Métrologie Instrumentation Signaux
18 ICS - Institut Charles Sadron
19 Physics Department
20 APC-Gravitation - APC - Gravitation
21 ESSE - Department of Earth and Space Science and Engineering [York University - Toronto]
22 LKB (Lhomond) - Laboratoire Kastler Brossel
23 OCA - Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur
24 CERN - European Organization for Nuclear Research
25 School of Mathematics [Cardiff]
26 UR1 - Université de Rennes 1
27 Dipartimento di Fisica [Parma]
28 IIT Kanpur - Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
29 Bayerische Julius-Maximilians University
30 Department of Mechanical Engineering
31 TIFR - Tata Institute for Fundamental Research
32 ECAP - Erlangen Centre for Astroparticle Physics
33 IReS - Institut de Recherches Subatomiques
34 Institute for Plasma Research, Bhat, Gandhinagar India
35 IPA - DLR Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre
36 LPC2E - Laboratoire de Physique et Chimie de l'Environnement et de l'Espace
37 USN - Unité Scientifique de la Station de Nançay
38 SFA INC/NRL - SFA Inc/NRL

We present the result of searches for gravitational waves from 200 pulsars using data from the first observing run of the Advanced LIGO detectors. We find no significant evidence for a gravitational-wave signal from any of these pulsars, but we are able to set the most constraining upper limits yet on their gravitational-wave amplitudes and ellipticities. For eight of these pulsars, our upper limits give bounds that are improvements over the indirect spin-down limit values. For another 32, we are within a factor of 10 of the spin-down limit, and it is likely that some of these will be reachable in future runs of the advanced detector. Taken as a whole, these new results improve on previous limits by more than a factor of two.

Domains: Physics [physics]

B P Abbott, R Abbott, T D Abbott, M R Abernathy, F Acernese, et al.. First search for gravitational waves from known pulsars with Advanced LIGO. The Astrophysical Journal, 2017, 839 (1), 33 p. ⟨10.3847/1538-4357/aa677f⟩. ⟨insu-01664010⟩