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  • Title: First all-sky upper limits from LIGO on the strength of periodic gravitational waves using the Hough transform
  • Contributor: Abbott, B. [Author]; Abbott, R. [Author]; Adhikari, R. [Author]; Ageev, A. [Author]; Agresti, J. [Author]; Allen, B. [Author]; Allen, J. [Author]; Amin, R. [Author]; Anderson, S.B. [Author]; Anderson, W.G. [Author]; Araya, M. [Author]; Armandula, H. [Author]; Ashley, M. [Author]; Asiri, F. [Author]; Aufmuth, P. [Author]; Aulbert, C. [Author]; Babak, S. [Author]; Balasubramanian, R. [Author]; Ballmer, S. [Author]; Barish, B.C. [Author]; Barker, C. [Author]; Barker, D. [Author]; Barnes, M. [Author]; Barr, B. [Author]; [...]
  • Published: College Park, MD : American Physical Society, 2005
  • Published in: Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology 72 (2005), Nr. 10 ; Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
  • Issue: published Version
  • Language: English
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.15488/12061; https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.72.102004
  • ISSN: 1550-7998
  • Keywords: search ; emission ; geo-600 ; precessing neutron-stars ; detector ; interferometer
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  • Description: We perform a wide parameter-space search for continuous gravitational waves over the whole sky and over a large range of values of the frequency and the first spin-down parameter. Our search method is based on the Hough transform, which is a semicoherent, computationally efficient, and robust pattern recognition technique. We apply this technique to data from the second science run of the LIGO detectors and our final results are all-sky upper limits on the strength of gravitational waves emitted by unknown isolated spinning neutron stars on a set of narrow frequency bands in the range 200-400 Hz. The best upper limit on the gravitational-wave strain amplitude that we obtain in this frequency range is 4.43×10-23. © 2005 The American Physical Society.
  • Access State: Open Access